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of gray suftusion, which obscures or leaves the niaculation in rehef. The 

 species is most nearly allied to V. albiciliatiis in general type of macula- 

 lion, but is much nearer the typical forms in colour. In the tendency to 

 relieve the reniform, it resembles Homopyralis. 



Homopyrnlis chidus, n. sp. — Ground colour a pale reddish luteous, 

 on which the markings are shown in smoky or black. Head of the 

 ground colour mottled with bronze brown scales. Palpi brown, banded 

 with the reddish ground. Thorax of the reddish ground with a band of 

 smoky, lustrous brown scales across the top of collar and another at liie 

 base. Abdomen concolorous. Primaries reddish luteous at extreme 

 base ; then brown to the t. a. line. T. a. line rigidly oblique inwardly, 

 from costa beyond inner fourth to the inner maigin at the inner fourth; 

 geminate, the inner margin formed by the brown shade, the outer by a 

 narrow brown line parallel to it, the included space of the ground. T. p. 

 line geminate, a little sinuate, nearly parallel with the outer margin, the 

 cuter border formed by the brown space which extends to the outer 

 margin, the inner by a narrow brown line parallel to it. The median 

 space is thus paler than and contrasting with that on each side, a little 

 darkened in the middle by a geminate dusky median shade. The brown 

 space beyond the t. p. line is deepest at the line and on the costa, and 

 lightens a little outwardly, being also interrupted by the irregularly 

 sinuate, diffuse, pale s. t. line. There is a lunulate brown terminal line. 

 Orbicular wanting in the specimen. Reniform black, moderate in size, 

 oblong, a little oblique. Secondaries a little lighter than the primaries, 

 the median shades, t. p. line and outer dark shading of primaries 

 continued across the wing ; a blackish discal spot partly obscured by one 

 of the transverse lines ; a narrow, lunulate brown terminal line. Beneath, 

 yellowish, with black discal spot and vague transverse shades on all 

 wings. 



Expands: .68 inches = 17 mm. Habitat: Bill Williams Fort, 

 Arizona, in August. 



One female specimen in good condition from Prof F. H. Snow. 

 Readily recognizable by the broad reddish luteous median space between 

 the dark brown base and outer part of wing. 



Epizeuxis Merricki, n. sp.— Ground colour a glistening sooty black, 

 tending to smoky when a little worn. Head and thorax concolorous, 

 immaculate. Primaries with the transverse maculation obvious in most 

 specimens, becoming clearer as the specimen is rubbed. T. a. line single 

 blackish, diffuse, almost upiight, and may be tilted a little to either side, 



