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EUGONOBAPTA CONSTANS, 11. Sp. 



Expands 32 mm. Palpi fuscous, tipped with white ; front gray ; 

 thorax and abdomen clay colour, the latter more ochreous ; fore wings 

 broad, falcate, angulate at vein 4, dull clay colour, more or less stained 

 and striated with fuscous, this darkening into a rounded indeterminate 

 basal band, and a better marked, though still indefinite, outer band 

 running nearly to apex ; margin ochre-clay colour ; hind wings strongly 

 angled at vein 4, of the same colour as fore wings, outer band continued 

 from and like that of fore wings, and a faint submarginal shading ; 

 discal spots on all wings of dark points ; beneath as above, the colours 

 sharper, and the lines somewhat more determinate. 



Prescott, Ariz.; from Dr. Kunze ; taken Aug., 1896. 



EuGONOBAPTA OCHREATA, n. Sp. 



Expands 33 mm. Size and shape of E. co?istafis, Hulst. Colour 

 bright ochre, clear and even ; inner line reddish-ochre, faint ; outer line 

 reddish-ochre, fine, subparallel with margin ; beyond outer line a row 

 of blackish blotches; hind wings colour of fore wings, outer line the same, 

 nearly straight, and at middle of wings, with two or three blackish 

 blotches beyond towards inner margin ; beneath bright ochre, outer line 

 scarcely showing, the blotches obsolete. 



Senator, Ariz.; from Dr. Kunze; taken Aug. 20, i8g6. 



Slossonia, n. gen. 



Palpi long, extended, beaklike ; tongue very short, weak ; front 

 tufted ; antennse bipectinate in ^ , apex simple, serrate in $ ; thorax and 

 abdomen untufted ; fore tibite unarmed ; hind tibiae swollen, without 

 hair pencil, with two pairs of spurs ; fore wings angulate in ^ , rounded 

 and subfalcate in $ , without fovea below in ^ ; 12 veins : 3 and 4 separate, 

 5 near middle of cell ; 6 separate from 7 ; 10 and ii from cell separate 

 from 9 and 12 ; hind wings, 5 obsolete, 6 and 7 separate, 8 separate 

 from cell. Type S. rubrotinda, Hulst. 



The ? of the type is wanting ; the determination of the 9 is from 

 S. latipentiis, Hulst, which, as the $ is not known, may not belong here. 



This generic name is widi very great pleasure given in honour of 

 Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson, of New York, who has not only added 

 very greatly to our knowledge of the American insect world, especially of 

 Southern Florida and the White Mountains of New Hampshire, but has 

 herself also done some excellent descriptive and critical work. To this I 



