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vestiture is thicker and the patagia are much better defined than in the 

 alHed forms. It is Dr. Fletcher's No. 168. 



Taeniocampa fringata nov. sp. 



Rusty red-brown darkening to brown-gray. Lower part of front and palpi 

 crimson. Antennae bright red with a white dot at base. Collar and thorax tending 

 to become hoary through gray-tipped hair. Primaries tending to an overlay or 

 powdering of bluish-gray scales, and with a vague irrorate appearance, the macula- 

 tion never conspicuous and sometimes scarcely traceable. Basal line geminate, 

 gray-filled, rarely evident. T. a. line geminate, a little darker than the ground, some- 

 times with gray filling, a very little oblique, and slightly outcurved in the interspaces. 

 S.t. line brown, geminate, evenly outcurved over the cell and a little incurved belov.-; 

 included space concolorous; followed on each vein by a short blackish line which is 

 interrupted by a pale dot, so that there is the appearance of a double dotted line, 

 which is easily mistaken for the t.p. line. S.t. line pale, obscure, a little irregular, 

 defined by a slightly darker preceding narrow shade line. A vague median shade 

 line is traceable below the reniform, parallel to the t.p. line. Claviform barely trace- 

 able in one example. Orbicular dusky, oblique, elliptical, with narrow yellowish 

 outline, obvious in most specimens. Pteniform large, upright, a little constricted, 

 dusky, narrowly ringed with yellow, obvious in all specimens. Secondaries smoky 

 fuscous with carmine fringes. Beneath, gray with a crimson tinge, powcery. Both 

 wings with a discal spot and outer hne, which are best marked on secondaries, but 

 always at least traceable on primaries. The tarsi tend to become narrowly white- 

 ringed. 



Expands 1.24-1.34 in. = 31-33 mm. 



Habitat: Monterey County, Cahfornia, March; Santa Cruz Mountains, 

 CaHfornia. 



Five males and two females, all save one in good condition. This is an 

 ally of prceses and saleppa, and yet more closely of transparens. It is refer- 

 able to the Perigrapha of Hampson, and has the ridged crest of the species 

 that stand as Stretchia in our Catalogue. Except in the ground-color, 

 there is very little variation among the specimens at hand. 



Stretchia erythrolita Grt. 



Until recently this species has been represented in my collection by a 

 single male example labeled by Mr. Grote, and agreeing well with his 

 description and type. In 1906 I received two examples from Pasadena, 

 taken in March and April, which indicated quite a range of variation, but 

 wiiich nevertheless were very similar to the typical form. Recently I re- 

 ceived from San Diego County a series of upwards of thirty examples, taken 

 in early February, no two of which were alike, the extremes being so far 

 apart that probably I should have considered them distinct, had I received 



