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back, although I have written to him repeatedly to ask him to return 

 them. My last letter, under date of Nov. 15th, 1886, I registered in 

 order to make sure that it would reach him, and subsequently learned 

 from the P. O. authorities that it had been duly delivered to the addressee. 

 Cojitigua is a particularly well marked and constant form, and I think 

 there can be no doubt that it is a good species. It varies slightly as all 

 species will, but I have never seen an example which tended in any way 

 to connect it with any other form. 



I now come to the form which Doubleday and Walker mistook for 

 Lecontei, and which has been almost universally confused with that 

 species, but it differs so greatly from the true Lecontei that I feel con- 

 vinced that it is a distinct species. 



Callimorpha Confusa, n. sp. 



Hypercompa Lecontei, Walk, (not Boisd.), Cat. Lep. B. M., III., 

 p. 651. 



(Figures 7—9.) 



Head and collar orange-yellow, the latter with two dark brown spots. 

 Palpi orange-yellow tipped with black or dark brown. Antennae black. 

 Thorax white, yellowish towards the abdomen, with a wide central brown 

 stripe. Abdomen white, yellowish at base and tip, and with a dorsal dark 

 brown stripe. Beneath, legs ochre-yellow ; anterior coxae with a black 

 spot ; fore and median femora, tibiae and tarsi, dark brown exteriorly. 



Primaries dark brown, with from five to six rather large irregularly 

 shaped white spots, and two or three small ones. Of the large spots the 

 one at the base is oblong, the second is generally bifid, but occasionally 

 entirely divided, forming two distincc spots. The third is usually nearly 

 -round, the apical spot oval or oblong, occasionally united with the third ; 

 the fifth spot near the outer margin is large, subtriangular and sometimes 

 broken into several spots. 



Secondaries white, immaculate; but" occasionally with a partial brown 

 border running from a little below the apex to the middle of the outer 

 margin, and with one or two brown dots near the anal angle. Beneath, 

 primaries have the brown markings much more strongly reproduced than 

 in Lecontei, and far more suffused with yellow than in that species. 



Expands 37-42 m. m. = ii'is-ifs inch. 



Larva found feeding on Cynoglossum officinale, L. (Common Hound's 

 Tongue), one or two on a plant, June 12th, 18S1. 



