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This form is closely allied to speciosata and also to some of the 

 Mexican species, but Dr. Barnes, with his large series, has no 

 doubt been able to see the distinguishing characters. Personally, 

 I regard it as a variety of speciosata Pack., the figure, as judged 

 by plates, are sometimes rather unreliable as they do not 

 bring out the minute differences. It has a purple-brown ground 

 colour and apical patch and lacks the median white shading of 

 magnificata. It may be that H. magnificata Taylor belongs to the 

 group with long instead of the group with moderate palpi as I 

 listed it. When I was working on this group the Rev. G. W. 

 Taylor sent me a photograph of his type but the palpi were blurred 

 and appeared to be of moderate length. Shortly after this I wrote 

 him about the matter, but unfortunately illness prevented him 

 frorri replying. Now that his collection has passed into Dr. Barnes* 

 hands I can ascertain its position from the latter. 



H. costipunctata, according to the colour, must be close to var. 

 taylori Swett. 



Types, 1 cf, 1 9 , Tucson, Ariz., in the Barnes collection. 



16. Hydriomena barnesata Swett, (Can. Ent., vol. XLI, 

 July, 1909; Barnes and McD., Contrib. Nat. Hist. Lepid. 

 North Am., vol. 1, no. 4, 1912; pi.- XIV, fig. 19-22). 



This species has very long palpi, possibly the longest of the 

 group, and the general appearance is different from any of the 

 others. The broad smoky mesial band with its three black lines, 

 and the clear white mesial space beyond make it resemble in a 

 way some of the German varieties of autumnalis with pointed or 

 elongated wings. The general colour is olive-green and white. 

 The hind wings are dark smoky brown. It is a large species and 

 evidently rather rare as I have only seen a few specimens, three 

 from Dr. Barnes and one from Mr, Grossbeck. 



Types, 3 cT (coll. Barnes, 2 cT ; coll. Grossbeck, 1 cf), 



Huachuca Mts.. Ariz. Paratype, 1 cf", Palmerlee, Ariz., in my 



collection. Through the kindness of Dr. Barnes, I also have 1 9 



from Fort Wingate, N. Mex., which does not differ materially from 



the male. 



(To be continued.) 



