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ish, broken, more or less lost. S.t. line pale, rather conspicuously relieved by a 

 smoky preceding shade. Basal line marked by a geminate spot on costa and some- 

 times by a dot on median vein. T.a. line geminate, outer line best marked, evenly 

 oblique, with small outcurves in the interspaces; always broken. T.p. line gemi- 

 nate, only a little bent over the reniform, parallel to outer margin; outer line a 

 series of venular points; inner tending to becomie diffuse. A broad, diffuse, obscure 

 median smoky shade. S.t. line irregular, complete or nearly so, emphasized by 

 white scales. A series of small black terminal dots and a narrow line at base of 

 fringes. Orbicular moderate, round or oval, incompletely marked by whitish scales. 

 Reniform moderate, kidney-shaped, outlined by a vague yellowish ring, inferiorly 

 black-filled. Secondaries smoky fuscous, more yellowish at base, with a dark discal 

 lunula and pale fringes. Abdomen pale ashen gray. Beneath, primaries smoky 

 with a powdery pale-gray border, an extra-median line marked on costa, and an 

 obscure discal spot; secondaries pale gray, powdery, with a conspicuous black dis- 

 cal line and an incomplete extra-median band, beyond which the marginal area is 

 blackish. 



Expands 1.35-1.42 in. = 34-36 mm. 



Habitat: High River, Alberta (Mr. Thomas Baird); Kaslo, B.C., 

 June 1, 30, July 7, 10 (Mr. J. W. Cockle). 



Three males and two females, all in good condition; received from Dr. 

 James Fletcher. The examples are all very much alike, a slight difference 

 in the amount of dark filling in the reniform and in the completeness of the 

 transverse lines being all the variation noted. The species belongs with the 

 hostoniensis series, but differs from all those previously known to me, in 

 the dark secondaries of both sexes. It recalls scandens at first sight, but is 

 much darker than that species throughout. 



Euxoa capota nov. sp. 



Head dark brown in front, vertex reddish gray, a black line dividing the two. 

 Collar reddish at base, tip velvety black; a white line between the two. Disk of 

 thorax reddish gray. Primaries brown ; median space very dark purplish brown, 

 almost black; costal region to t.p. line whitish; the ordinary spots of the brown 

 ground-color. A black basal shade margins the costal pale area inferiorly. T.a. 

 line geminate, black, obsolete on costa, very distinct below it and with an inward 

 curve at the middle of its course. T.p. line geminate, black, the outer line less 

 distinct, almost straight from the costa to end of cell and then with a very small 

 incurve. S.t. line pale, only a little irregular, chiefly defined by the slightly darker 

 terminal area against the s.t. space, which is the lightest part of the wing. Clavi- 

 form narrowly outlined in black, incomplete, concolorous. Space between the 

 ordinary spots black-filled. Orbicular, U-shaped, open to the costal pale area. 

 Reniform large, incompletely outlined by dark and pale scales, lunate rather than 

 kidney-shaped. Secondaries smoky brown, with a small, darker discal hmule. 

 Beneath, reddish gray, powdeiy, with a common outer line and a discal lunule on 

 all wings. 



Expands 1.15-1.30 in. = 29-32 mm. 



