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Vol. XLII. LONDON, NOVEMBER, 19 lo. No. 11 



A NEW AUTOGRAPHA FROM THE ALBERTA ROCKIES. 



BY F. H. WOLLEY DOD, MILLARVILLE, ALTA. 



Atitographa Sansoni, n. sp. 



Head and thorax rich olive-brown, all the crests and ridges tipped 

 with violaceous, x-^bdomen dark ochreous, densely shaded posteriorly 

 with fuscous and gray, with pinkish lateral tufts, and an anterior dorsal 

 crest of colour of those on thorax. Ground colour of primaries of the 

 same violaceous tint as the crest tips, shaded and reticulated with oliva- 

 ceous and velvety blackish-brown, the darkest shades being iu central area 

 below the median vein, the basal and inner subbasal spaces, and a sub- 

 terminal shade near apex. Basal line from costa to vein i nearly straight, 

 and nearly at right angles to median vein, to which point it is double, 

 dark-filled, the inner portion metallic, thence single. T. a. line single, 

 metallic, sharply dentate outwardly below costa, outcurved below median 

 vein, bordered anteriorly by a narrow dark olivaceous-brown shade, which 

 is preceded by a narrow shade of the pale ground. T. p. line paler than 

 ground, but scarcely metallic, except on inner margin and just below vein 

 2, narrowly bordered both sides by dark brown, distinct throughout its 

 length, outcurved and slightly sinuate from costa to vein 5, almost direct 

 to vein 2, thence slightly sinuate to inner margin. S. t. line defined by 

 pale space between subterminal and terminal shades, undulate, with an 

 inward sinus below vein 2. The preceding shade is dark olivaceous, 

 shading into metallic-green between i and 3, blackish between 3 and 6. 

 A pale line at base of fringes, preceded and followed by dark lunules, the 

 anterior row being divided from the preceding olivaceous terminal area by 

 a fine pale line. Fringes cut with dark opposite veins. 



Spots finely outlined with metallic-silver, about of calif ortiica and 

 pseudogamma pattern. Sign silvery-metallic, consisting of two lines run- 

 ning obliquely downwards and outwards from median vein just below 

 reniform, coalescing at about a third of their length, and continued as a 

 broad line slightly upcurved, of even width, blunt at extremity, almost 

 reaching the t. p. line just below vein 2. There is a pale fulvous patch 

 extending from just below the junction of sign to the t. p. line. 



