236 THE CANADIA.N ENTOMOLOGIST. 



I suspected when I first received this large lot of specimens that it 

 might be one of the Central American species^ and sent examples to Sir 

 Oeorge F. Hampson for comparison. He assures me that the species is 

 not represented in the British Museum collections, and as it fits no 

 description known to \ne I assume that it is new. 



Caniponictra paresa^ n. sp. — Head and collar deep, almost blackish- 

 brown. Disc of ihorax, including patagia, whitish, more or less powdered 

 with brown scales. Abdomen deep brown, incisures narrovvly black- 

 ringed. Primaries with a broad whitish costal area, starting from the 

 entire width of the wing at base, narrowing gradually to before the s. t. 

 line, where it is abruptly terminated ; terminal space beyond s. t. line also 

 whitish, interrupted by a dusky cloud at about its middle. The interven- 

 ing triangle is deep, blackish-brown. The costil pale space may be 

 without obvious marks except costal dots at inception of usual lines, or it 

 may be crossed more or less obviously by the basal line, which is narrow 

 and inwardly oblique ; by the t. a line, which is broken, dislocated and 

 fasciform ; by the median line, which is narrow and linear; and by the 

 t. p. line, which is black and outwardly oblique. An extension of the 

 median dark triangle reaches the apex and dilutes the pale terminal space 

 at that point. S. t. line pale, outwardly shaded by reddish, irregular and 

 a little sinuate in course. The reniform is pale, narrow, ovate, and breaks 

 into the dark triangle fiom the costal area. There is a rivulous black 

 terminal line following the scallops of the wing margin. Secondaries 

 blackish-brown from base to s. t. line, the latter a little sinuate, pale, 

 followed by a reddish shading, the space beyond whitish, with brown 

 powderings ; a blackish or brownish cloud breaks the pale area in some 

 examples. Beneath, dull smoky-brown, with a dusky discal spot and 

 obscure transverse lines at and within the middle on all wings. 



Expands: i. 24-1. 48 inches = 31-37 mm. 



Habitat. — Yavapai Co., Arizona, May 23-31. Hutson. So. Arizona, 

 Poling. 



Six males and four females in fair to good condition. Although this 

 species looks like sele?iis, it is really so close to protea that I was at first 

 inclined to believe it only an extreme variety. The maculation, so far as 

 it is traceable, is almost identical, and the description of the former will 

 answer very nearly for the precent species. But though I had so many 

 examples, I could not get any real intermediate forms to this type with 

 whitish costal and terminal area, and as this was also uniformly darker on 

 head, thorax and abdomen, I concluded to risk description. 



