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Tibiae spinose. Collar with a lobate central black line. Thorax 

 usually brown, lighter than the wings, having frequently an anterior fur- 

 rowed tuft and always a posterior tuft. Abdomen smooth, rounded, with 

 the ovipositor of the female slightly exserted. Color of the anterior wings 

 very variable, usually brown with a distinct purple tinge, occasionally the 

 basal and median spaces are suffused with cinereous, and then the sub- 

 terminal and terminal are dark and contrasting ; in other specimens the 

 wings are entirely purple black, in others purple brown, in still others the 

 median space is dark purple brown and the basal and subterminal space 

 bright even yellowish brown ; this seems to be the most common form. 

 The ordinary lines are distinct, black and geminate ; the usual spots are 

 shaped as in tcssel/ata, the space between them is usually filled with black ; 

 a black line at the base of the fringe. 



Posterior wings whitish or light gray, with a broad, black, marginal 

 band ; in the males this band is even and well defined ; in the females 

 usually suffuse. 



Expanse 30-37 m. m. 



I regard this as a northern mountainous species, belonging to the 

 Canadian fauna. 



Caradrina metalis, nov. sp. 



Expanse 31 m. m. Length of body 13 m. m. 



This is a comparatively stout, inconspicuously marked species, differing 

 materially from meskei, miranda and tarda, the other species of the genus. 

 Eyes naked. Tibiae unarmed. Palpi black, tipped with white. Antennae 

 of the male pubescent. Front, vertex, collar and thorax gray. Abdomen 

 untufted. Anterior wings grayish white ; the markings black and quite 

 faint ; traces of the half-line ; the interior line faint, oblique \ exterior 

 line rounded, obsoletely dentate ; orbicular spot reduced to a black dot, 

 the reniform forming a conspicuous luniform black mark ; subterminal 

 line absent ; a partially obsolete series of black dots at the base of the 

 fringes. 



Posterior wings white, immaculate, except that the discal dot shows 

 through from below. 



Beneath gray, the anterior wings suffused with black, strong discal 

 dots and a common median line, best marked on the costa. 



Bab. Maine. Collection H. K. Morrison. 



