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blackish. Eyes hairy ; clypeus smooth. Expands 32 mil. Colorado. 

 One specimen in Mr. Tepper's collection, one ^ in my own. 



Under the name obiista, I believe that Guenee' has described a form 

 of pseudargyria in which the primaries are suffused with red. 



Heliophila flabilis, n. s. 



$ . Very pale ochrey or straw color shaded with fuscous. The pale 

 longitudinal shades extend along the cell over the interspace between 

 veins 5 and 6 nearly to the margin ; a short pale shade on the interspace 

 above and extending nearer to the margin. From the base a wide sub- 

 mesial pale shading extends outwardly to the margin. A black dot marks 

 the reniform at median vein ; an extra-mesial row of dots on the nervules, 

 not prominent. The veins are indistinctly paler. The darkest portion 

 of the wing is along the median vein, and a fine black streak runs along 

 the interspace between veins 4 and 5. Hind wings whitish, vaguely 

 soiled with fuscous exteriorly. Thorax concolorous with primaries ; no 

 lines on the collar. Beneath without marks. This species recalls in 

 ornamentation lapidoria, but is more diffusely shaded ; the outer line of 

 spots more numerous,- the hind wings darker, the body more slender. 

 Eyes hairy ; clypeus smooth. Long Island, near the sea shore, in May ; 

 Mr. Tepper. Expands 33 mil. 



Heliophila farcta, n. s. 



^ . Allied to adjiita and lapidaria, but much stouter. Fore wings 

 unicolorous pale ochrey with a warm or reddish tinge and without longi- 

 tudinal shadings. Median vein paler. A dot on vein 2 and one on vein 

 5 indicate the extra mesial line. A small faint dark shade subterminally 

 about vein 5 opposite the cell. Hind wings white with slightly ochrey 

 fringes ; no marks above and beneath. Collar lined. Head and thorax 

 concolorous with primaries ; femora darker within. Eyes hairy. Length 

 of primary 19 mil. California, Mr. Hy. Edwards, No. 168. 



The following is a list of the North American species of Tarache 

 (Acontia), as far as known to me. I have seen the type of obatra Mor- 

 rison ; it appeared to me to belong to Spragueia. The new variety vir- 

 ginalis differs from the type by the absence of the subterminal blackish 

 shading on the primaries. 



I. crustaria Morrison, Proc, Ac. N. S. Phil.. 70, 1875. Colorado; 

 Nebraska. 



