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spot faintly tinged with golden yellow. Tails black, edged with white, and 

 the apices also broadly white. Thorax and abdomen slate color. Antennae 

 dull slate, annulated with white. 



Under side. Entirely grayish white. Primaries with black discal lunule 

 and six submedian ovate black spots, each with a white ring. Near the pos- 

 terior angle are four very faint black streaks, the under side of the primaries 

 of this species bearing a close resemblance to that of many Lycamas, particu- 

 larly that of Ly. Pheres. Bdv. Secondaries with black discal lunule and seven 

 sub-median spots as in the primaries, except that the one nearest to- the ab- 

 dominal margin is lunulate. The marginal markings peculiar to the genus 

 are very faintly produced; the anal spot is a blackish, cloud-edged above with 

 orange; the second and third are blackish, with a few blue scales intermin- 

 gled, visible only with a lens ; the fourth black, surmounted by pale orange, 

 and the remainder black luuules, becoming faint as they pass the median 

 nerve. 



Exp. of wings, 1.25 inch. 



1 ? (Coll. Hy. Edw.) Mt. Nebo, Utah, July, 1875. Taken by my friend, 

 Mr. J. D. Putnam, of Davenport, Iowa, to whom I have great pleasure in 

 dedicating the species. I should have hesitated to describe this insect from a 

 single specimen, but its very decided character leaves me no room to doubt 

 that it is a new species. In this opinion I a.m confirmed by Mr. S. H. Scud- 

 der, to whom I submitted this and the following species, and who has in- 

 eluded both in his " Synonymic List of American Rurales, 1876." A second 

 specimen of T. Putnami, which in its general character most resembles T. 

 Dryope, Edw., was taken in Colorado, in July of the present year, by Baron 

 von Osten Sacken. 



Thecla Adenostomatis. n. sp. Hy. Edw. 



cf. ' Dull slate brown on the entire upper surface, with a slight golden re- 

 flection when viewed obliquely. Fringes concolorous. Antinnre black, with 

 white annulations; club, with its extreme tip orange above, entirely orange 

 beneath. Eyes surrounded at their base by white hairs. Thorax and abdo- 

 men concolorous. Secondaries with anal angle slightly produced posteriorly, 

 with a black streak at the base of the fringe, and above a very few blue scales. 

 Tails short, black, with extreme tip white. 



Under side of primaries slate drab, with very faint greenish tinge. Discal 

 spot obsolete; a waved submedian unbroken line, white, edged anteriorly 

 with dark slate; and six very faint submargiual patches of black. Seconda- 

 ries, dark slate color at the base, from which along the abdominal margin are 

 numerous white scales, giving a mottled appearance. Submedian band white, 

 edged above with black, especially about the middle. Anal spot mottled with 

 black and white; other markings a series of five or six luuules, black, edged 

 above with whitish. All of these spots, when viewed with a lens, have a very 

 faint trace of fulvous. 



Exp. of wings, 1.15 inch. 



9 . Similar to the tf, except that the fringes are more decidedly white, the 

 iinal mark with a bluer tinge above, and the tail slightly longer than in the 



