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Cantata, Pack., was originally described from California, and is, I 

 believe, a good species rarely taken. I have one specimen in fair condi- 

 tion, which I take to be Packard's species. Forms of polygrammata, 

 Hulst, frequently bear this name in collections. If I can separate it 

 correctly, then it does not belong here, but is a near relative of some of 

 our smaller Hydriomenidae. 



Tessellata, Pack., does not belong in Coenocalfie, because it is a true 

 Marmopteryx, having the fore tibiae strongly spinose at apex. When Dr. 

 Hulst so classed this species he must have had before him a specimen 

 similar to one I placed under that name in an article on Arizona material 

 in Bulletin No. i, Brooklyn Institute Museum. They are both brilliant 

 species, and have a superficial resemblance, but ought not to be confused 

 in future. Recently I have received from Provo, Utah, two specimens of 

 the real tesseHata, taken in June of this year by Mr. Tom Spalding. A 

 description follows of the Arizona species, under the name of 



Stamnodes splendorata, n. sp. — Expanse, 30 mm. Palpi short, stout, 

 creamy-brown, beneath white, tinged with deep rose-pink. Front cream- 

 brown, a*line of pure white above clypeus. Collar and vertex whitish, 

 tinged strongly with rose-pink. Antennpe, thorax, body above, and along 

 costa of primaries, creamy-brown or ca/c-au-lait colour, the latter 

 indistinctly checkered with dull white. Ground colour of all wings a 

 brilliant golden-orange, intensified apically and toward outer margins. On 

 primaries one-third in from apex a series of jet black, short strigae, form a 

 band, which, broad at costa, and reaching diagonally toward margin, 

 makes a point and ceases at vein 4, where it is joined by another line of 

 similar strigations from the extreme apex, enclosing costally an irregular 

 rounded orange spot. A single line of like strigae, between the veins, 

 extends from apex to vein 4, just within margin. No marginal lines. 

 Fringes long, pink, cut at veins with creamy-brown, rather broadly opposite 

 veins 1 to 4, and between all veins, tipped with a patch of pure white. 

 Secondaries without markings of any kind, except some shadowy strigations 

 of cream-brown near apices, and with fringes paler than on primaries. 

 Beneath, the primaries along costa and at apices are a rich creamy-brown, 

 the former cut with four blocks of pure white. The black strigae repro- 

 duced as above, but the enclosed rounded spot is a deep rosy pink cut 

 with white strigse. Extending in an outward curve from costa, one-third 



