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Homopyralis ediiis, n. sp. — Ground colour a reddish luteous, over- 

 laid and powdered by brown and black scales forming the ornamentation. 

 Head, collar and palpi deep chocolate-brown ; thoracic disc more powdery. 

 Abdomen of the ground colour, the segments obscurely, dusky-ringed. 

 Primaries with outer half of basal space shaded with dusky to the t. a. 

 line, which is single, black, irregular, upright, and preceded and followed 

 by a bar of the ground colour. At the edge of this bar in the cell is the 

 black, puncliform obicular, and beyond it and to the black, oblique 

 oblong reniform, a brown shade fills the cell and extends across the wing, 

 forming the most obvious feature. The outer edge of this dark median 

 fascia is at about the middle of the wing, and beyond it the pale ground 

 extends to the dusky terminal space, broken on the costa by a deep brown 

 blotch, which fills the s. t. space at that point. T. p. line slender, black, 

 single, irregular, tending to become lost. S. t. line indicated only by the 

 dusky shading, except at costa, where it is defined by the dark blotch. A 

 series of black terminal lunules, each followed by a yellow edging which 

 does not cross the fringes. The secondaries have the maculation of the 

 primaries continued across the disk, and an oblong black discal spot. 

 Beneath, pale yellowish, powdery, with obscure smoky median lines and a 

 discal spot on each wing. 



Expands: .74-.S2 inches = 18.5-20.5 mm. 



Habitat. — Yavapai Co., Arizona, June 23, 27, Aug. 2, 3, 8, 24. ]\Ir. 

 Hutson. 



Five males and one female in fair to s^ood condition. The August 

 captures are labelled Minnehaha. In a general way the species resembles 

 the eastern tactus, but is smaller, slighter and with a broader median 

 band, in which the reniform is neither as large nor as conspicuous. 



Mr. Hutson's collections in this genus included also a specimen of 

 H. ductus^ described from Prof Snow's material, and in the allied genus 

 Yrias a large series of Y. clientis, Y. repe?itis and Y. vohccris^ as well as 

 smaller numbers of Y. irentis and Y. albiciliattis. 



Refiia Hutso?ii, n. sp. — Head, thorax and primaries fawn-gray 

 tending to reddish ; the males darker, with smoky powderings. Head and 

 thorax immaculate. Primaries, t. a. line upright or a little oblique, smoky, 

 with a preceding yellowish line, tending to become broken and diffuse in 

 the male. T. p. line smoky, almost parallel with outer margin, even, 

 followed by a yellowish line. S. t. line yellowish, a little irregular, 

 preceded by a variable, often broken dusky shading, reaching the inner 



