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Habitat: Newfoundland. 



Three male examples, one of them almost perfect, a second fair, and a 

 third more or less oily, yet with maculation in good condition. This is a 

 close ally of L. passer Gn., and I thought, at first, a small, local race; but 

 in the long series of passer in my collection, covering from the Atlantic to 

 the Pacific, and the Rocky Mountain region into the mountains of Canada 

 and Manitoba, there are certain features that occur always, in spite of differ- 

 ences in size, and variations in color and markings. In the almost total 

 absence of claviform, in the form, marking and outline of reniform, and in 

 the course of the s.t. line, the new species differs most markedly from passer, 

 as well as in the smaller size. A defective example from St. John, N.B., 

 will probably prove referable here. 



It might be added that I have an example of true passer from Grand 

 Lake, N.F., as small as hirnata, but quite characteristic in other respects. 



Xylophasia illustra nov. sp. 



Ground-color sooty black, dull. Head and thorax concolorous. Primaries 

 with all except the s.t. line lost. The latter is marked by white scales, but is broken 

 and fragmentary: so far as it shows, it is irregular, indicating a small W-mark, and 

 partly preceded by velvety black scales forming an in-egular, vague preceding shade. 

 A yellowish line at the base of the fringes, emphasized by larger dots at the ends 

 of the veins. The reniform is vaguely indicated by paler scales. Abdomen dusty 

 gray, the dorsal tuf tings well marked. Secondaries yellowish gray with a darker 

 hne at the base of the paler fringes. Beneath, smoky gray; primaries darker with 

 terminal space paler; secondaries paler, more powdery, with a moderate discal spot. 



Expands 1.52 in. = 28 mm. 



Habitat: High River, Alberta. 



A single good male, taken by Mr. Thomas Baird and sent me by Dr. 

 Fletcher. The species resembles spuiatrix and plutonia in the dark color; 

 but this color is dull, not glossy, and the secondaries have no trace of yellow 

 or brown. 



Xylophasia miniota nov. sp. 



Ground-color dull, smoky fuscous without strong contrasts of any kind. Front 

 of head and collar, inferiorly, more yellowish; front with a black transverse line; 

 collar with a black line dividing the lower pale from the upper darker portion; disk 

 of thorax mottled with black scales. Primaries dull with black powdering, all the 

 maculation present, but not contrasting. A short black streak at base, reaching 

 to the basal line, which is geminate, blackish, included space a little paler. T.a. 

 line geminate, blackish, included space concolorous, outwardly oblique, with a little 

 irregular outcurve. T.p. line geminate, the inner portion black, more or less lunu- 

 late and irregular, the outer obscure, brown, even, partly lost : as a whole, some- 



