THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 365 



A NEW THECLA FROM TEXAS. 



BY WILLIAM BARNES, M. D., AND J. MCDUNNOUGH, PH. D. DECATUR, ILL. 



Callicista Laceyi, n. sp. 

 ? . — Palpi white, terminal joint shaded with black on its upper sur- 

 face ; antennie black, ringed with white and tipped with orange, with a 

 few fulvous hairs at base ; front and collar white ; thorax and abdomen 

 black, with sparse grayish hairs. Upper side deep blackish-brown; 

 primaries unmarked, with narrow white fringes shading into brown towards 

 apex ; secondaries with anal angle slightly tipped with orange, preceded 

 by a small black patch and a few white scales ; along the outer margin, 

 between ist anal vein and M;> three black lunulate patches bordered 

 towards the base of wing with white scaling ; of these the third is the 

 smallest and least prominent : a white subterminal line extends from anal 

 angle to vein Mg, followed by a terminal black line, which also tends to 

 merge into the ground colour of the wing towards costa ; fringes broader 

 than on primaries, pure white, with the exception of the anal angle, where 

 ihey are brown; tail single, 3.4 mm. long, bordered with white at base 

 and tipped with same colour. 



Beneath primaries pale mouse-gray, with somewhat darker terminal 

 line and a double row of 6 terminal spots, of which the outer row is rather 

 obscure and oval, the inner one lunate and slightly shaded with orange on 

 lunules 4 and 5 ; interspace between the two rows scaled with white ; well 

 beyond the cell the wing is crossed by an irregular band composed of 

 three distinct dashes, edged inwardly with orange, outwardly with white, 

 and extending as far as vein Cug ; of these the central dash is situated 

 slightly nearer to the outer margin than the other two ; below vein Cug 

 the band is indistictly represented by two oblique dark gray dashes, 

 shaded outwardly with white, and forming a broken V-shaped mark, with 

 apex directed toward base of wing; an obscure white bar at end of cell ; 

 fringes concolorous with wing. 



Secondaries mouse-gray, strongly scaled with white ; dark terminal 

 line, bordered inwardly with white and slightly enlarged at termination of 

 veins ; double row of distinct terminal lunules separated by white scaling, 

 as on primaries, inner row becoming reduced to mere dashes towards 

 anal angle ; of the outer row, the spot between Cuj and Cug is large ; deep 

 black and broadly margined with orange ; the following spot is scaled 

 with blue, showing traces of black only towards anal angle ; anal patch 

 black, separated from preceding spot by a narrow band of orange and 



November, 1910 



