44 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



HESPERIA PAWNEE. N. sp. 



BY G. M. DODGE, GLENCOE, DODGE CO., NEBRASKA. 



Male expands 1.45 inches. Primaries above fulvous. Subcostal, sub- 

 median and subdorsal veins black at the base. Stigma black and 

 conspicuous, followed by a dusky shade. A small black line at the 

 extremity of the disk is preceded by a yellowish \vhite or semi-transparent 

 spot in the disk ; a similar spot, triangular in shape, appears between the 

 first and second median veinlets at their divarication, and two others 

 between the sixth and seventh subcostal veinlets. The outer margin is 

 broadly bordered with brown, which is finely powdered with fulvous scales 

 toward the apex. 



Two .nearly square fulvous spots between the last subcostal and first 

 median veinlets, separate an oval brown patch that lies at the extremity 

 of the disk, from the border. Costal edge blackish. Fringe white, dusky 

 toward the apex. 



Secondaries fulvous, bordered with brown ; broadly and darkest along 

 the anterior edge, narrowly on the outer edge, where it appears as cunei- 

 form spots between the veinlets, and broadly again along the inner edge, 

 where it is sprinkled with fulvous. Most of the veins on both wings are 

 black. Underside of both wings pale yellow. Primaries black at base, 

 having a black line corresponding to the stigma. 



Inner margin brown, preceded by a large whitish patch. Five pale 

 whitish spots near the apex, another in the disk, and one between the 

 first and second median veinlets. Fringe white at the anal angle, brown 

 tipped with white at the apex. Secondaries have a whitish spot in the 

 disk, and are crossed by a nearly straight row of small whitish spots. 

 Head and thorax greenish yellow. Body black. Abdomen, breast and 

 palpi yellowish white. Antennse black and yellow above, white tipped 

 with chestnut below. 



The spots on the underside of secondaries sometimes obsolete. 



% light brown above, with a slight purplish reflection. Primaries 

 sprinkled with fulvous scales near the base and inner angle. There is a 

 large, square, white spot in the disk, and an unequal, curved row of nine 

 white spots extend from the costa — beginning about two-tenths of an inch 

 from the apex — to the submedian vein. The first three spots are narrow 



