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Spragueia fumata, n. ?p — Tb.e ciuiic insec^ is deep smoky brown, 

 immaculate. Head, thorax and primaries covered by smooth glistening 

 scales, giving the appearance of being covered with bronze or metallic 

 green atoms. Secondaries with a slightly more reddish tinge, lustrous, but 

 without the metallic reflections. Beneath, like the secondaries above. 



Expands: .64-74 inches = 16-18 mm. Habitat: Verdi, Nevada, 

 June i-io ; A. H. Vachell. 



Twelve examples are before me, almost evenly divided as to sex. 

 Nine of these I owe to Mr. Kearfott, and three are from the collection of 

 Mr. H. D. Merrick. 



Yrias irentis, n. sp. — Ground colour a reddish gray, more or less 

 suffused by smoky gray and brown. The markings are fairly well defined, 

 blackish, not prominent, the only contrasts being where the reddish 

 ground is free from smoky powderings just beyond the reniform. Thoracic 

 vestiture gray, mixed with pink scales, which form a crest on the collar. 

 Primaries with all the lines and spots i)resent, but varying much in 

 distinctness, sometimes one or the other being lost or broken. Basal line 

 of the reddish ground, defined by slightly darker edgings. T. a. line 

 geminate, broken, nearly upright, outer portion blackish and most per- 

 sistent ; inner smoky and frequently lost. T. j). line single, lunulate, 

 blackish, more or less broken, followed by a paler shading, with a long 

 outcurve from costa over cell, and a small incurve toward inner margin. 

 The median shade is somewhat diffuse, at or within the middle of the 

 wing, nearly upright. The s. t. line is narrow, whitish, irregularly bent 

 and curved, broken and tending to become lost toward the hind angle. 

 There is a series of black terminal lunules, followed by a flesh-coloured 

 line at the base of the long fringes, which are cut with reddish opposite 

 the interspaces. The orbicular is a black dot in the cell touching the t. a. 

 line, and is sometimes wanting. The reniform is black, not defined at 

 the edges, variable in size and shape, but usually distinct, at just about 

 the middle of the wing. Secondaries smoky gray, with a more or less 

 obvio*us tendency to continue the transverse lines of the primaries ; 

 always best marked toward the inner margin. Beneath yellowish gray, 

 with three lunulate transverse darker lines on each wing; secondaries also 

 with a discal dot. 



Expanse : .70-75 inch = 17. 5-18. 5 mm. Habitat: Cochise County, 

 Arizona, in July. 



Three males and one female, all papered specimens, from Mr. George 

 Franck. No two are alike, and the variation is due chiefly to the amount 



