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separated out several years ago, but not described as the material was scanty 

 and not in the best of condition. The exact position of the species is doubtful, 

 and it may be that it fits in better in the pestula group than with messoria. 



Cuculliinae. 

 Feralia columbiana, Sm. 



This species was described (1903, Can. Ent., XXX\\ 9) from two males, 

 one from New Westminster, B.C., (Fletcher), the other labelled North West 

 Territories from Dr. R. Ottolengui. The first mentioned specimen, which is in 

 the collection of the U. S. National Museum, must be considered to be the type. 

 It was originally associated by Dr. Smith with comstocki Grt.,andhas the sara2 

 type of secondaries with pale shadings at base and along outer margin. On 

 this account, after an examination of the type, it was listed in the Barnes and 

 McDunnough Check List as a race of comstocki, although it may quite probably 

 prove to be a good species. The cotype from the Ottolengui collection recently 

 came into the possession of Dr. Wm. Barnes, of Decatur, 111., and at the time 

 struck me as being distinct specifically from columbiana as typified by the 

 Washington specimen; the almost entirely dark secondaries pointing, to my 

 mind, to a close relation with jocosa Gn. Specimens of both forms exist in the 

 Ottawa collection, and I have prepared slides of the male genitalia and find my 

 suspicions that two species were involved verified. The following description 

 of the new species is therefore offered. 



Feralia deceptiva, sp. nov. 



Male antenna' orange: palpi deep black; front pale greenish, shaded at 

 vertex with black: thoracic vestiture pale green marked with black at base of 

 tegulae and along upper margin of patagia; two anterior and two posterior black 

 patches on mesothorax; a black patch on lower edge of patagia: metathorax with 

 black tufts; abdomen blackish with apical segment tufted with ochreou-;; pectus 

 and venter black; legs with femur covered with long greenish hairs: tibicC black, 

 spotted with green and with green hair tufts along outer margin. Primaries 

 blue-green, similar in shade to jocosa, crossed by heavy black lines which are 

 white-bordered; costa and cubitus to end of cell white; basal line black, edged 

 inwardly by white, more or less joined to t. a. line along costa and inner margin, 

 enclosing an irregular, green, kidney-shaped patch; t. a. line heavy, black, 

 bordered outwardly with white, with strong outward, scallop below cubitus, 

 bent back to near base of wing at inner margin; median shade black, touching 

 outer edge of orbicular, then bent beick to near t. a. line and forming an out- 

 ward tooth on anal vein: orbicular oval, edged with black, then with white and 

 filled with green; below it an indistinct wedge-shaped mark indicates the clavi- 

 form; reniform broad, open above and below, laterally outlined with black and 

 white, with two black streaks extending from apex and base of outer margin 

 half-way to t. p. line; above reniform on costa three lilack dots separated by 

 white; t.p. line arising from a diffuse black costal shade, strongly bent inwards, 

 and dentate below cell, black, bordered inwardly with white, joined to anal 

 angle by an oblicjue black streak: small terminal row of black dots: fringes 

 checkered black and white. Secondaries almost wholly black-brown with 



