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THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vancouver Island, B. C; expanse, 



expanse, 



intergrade, matthewi. 



Matthew i, Hy. Edw., 1874. 

 35-41 mm. 

 local race, confusus. 



conftisics, Hy. Edw., 1884. Alaska; expanse, 44 mm. 

 roseicaput, Neum. & Dyar, 1893. Cascade Range, B. C, 

 33 mm. 



SYNOPSIS : 



Yellowish or reddish-brown, full silvery white marks . . . Jiyperboreus. 

 Reddish-brown, the ground colour irregular or spotted with yellowish ; 



silvery marks more or less replaced by smoky black. . . . Matthewi. 

 Pinkish or yellowish -brown, white marks all replaced by smoky 



black confusus. 



Alexides aspersa, Grote. 



A fresh specimen from Las Vegas, N. M. (The type is rubbed.) 

 Thorax thickly haired, dark gray-brown, touched with white at the 

 bases of the anterior wings, along the collar on the sides below the fore 

 wings ; eyes posteriorly margined with red. Upper side of all the femora 

 and the tips of the tibiae and the tarsal joints bright red. Abdomen 

 bright red above except at base and a series of dorsal dark brown spots; 

 gray-brown below, the last two segments tipped with whitish. Fore wings 

 rather thin, grayish-brown, with five transverse rows of dark brown spots 

 and a large discal spot, cutting the otherwise white veins. Expanse, 3 2 mm. 

 Macrurocampa Dorothea., n. sp. (Fig. 19.) 



Primaries ash-gray with a lilac tint, composed of black and gray 

 scales, quite uniform, without any contrasting pale shades. Basal space 

 up to the t. a. line shaded with blackish-gray, filled in uniformly except 

 the extreme base, which is pale, and a distinct longitudinal black line 

 along vein i to the t. a. line, bordered on its lower side by an ochreous 



shade. T. a. line bounding the dark space, 

 'geminate, obscure, blackish, outwardly an- 

 gled on median vein and inwardly in sub- 

 median space. Discal spot lunate, black, 

 confined to the cross-vein. Beyond it the 

 faint, narrow, wavy, black t. p. line crosses 

 the vving, paralleled by a fainter median shade 

 through the discal dot itself and beyond by a row of small venular black 

 dots, the three lines ending on the internal margin in a darker shade of 



Fig. ig. 



