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the yellowish fringes. Beneath, gray to smoky, powdery, with a more or less 

 marked extra-median line and discal spot on all wings. 

 Expands 1.32-1.52 in. = 33-38 mm. 



Habitat: Newfoundland. 



Four female examples, in good to fair condition except for legs and 

 antennae. The thoracic crests are well marked, the anterior divided cen- 

 trally; abdominal tufts distinct, those on 3d and 4th segments even con- 

 spicuous. The species has no very close allies in our lists, but is perhaps 

 nearest to miniota, with which, nevertheless, it can hardly be closely com- 

 pared. 



Eadena susquesa nov. sp. 



Head a dull rusty luteous. Collar luteous gray inferiorly, leaden or ash-gray 

 at tip. Thorax with gray and black mottlings and lines over a rusty luteous base; 

 the disk of patagia luteous. Primaries rather bright reddish luteous, with rusty 

 brown markings and ash-gray shadings. Median Unes obscure. T.a. line traceable 

 chiefly by the difference in shade between the luteous basal space and more gray- 

 shaded median space, also by dusky venular marks which are not connected. T.p. 

 line indicated on costa, lost over the cell, but traceable again below vein 4, and there 

 parallel with outer margin. There is no obvious s.t. line. A series of inter-spatial 

 blackish terminal lunules tend to unite into a shaded line below vein 4. A narrow 

 yellow line at base of fringes, which are narrowly cut with yellow beyond the veins. 

 There is a rusty brown streak at base below the median vein. Claviform large, con- 

 colorous, outlined in rusty brown, extending almost across the median space: beyond 

 it the interspace is yellowish to the outer margin. Orbicular round or nearly so, 

 brown-ringed, then with a yellow annulus, gray-centered. Reniform large, upright, 

 a little constricted, gray-filled, rather obscurely outlined in brown and yellow, a 

 conspicuous yellowish shade beyond it toward apex. The veins tend to become 

 blackish marked; and, beyond the t.p. line, veins 3 and 4 are whitish-bordered to 

 the outer margin, gi^^ng them a white-rayed appearance. Secondaries dull smoky 

 brown with a darker discal spot and a blackish line at base of the white-tipped fringes. 

 Beneath, yellow-gray, more or less mottled and powdery, with variably distinct 

 outer line and discal spot. 



Expands 1.20 in. = 30 mm. 



Habitat: Claremont, Cal. (Carl Baker); San Diego, Cal. (Frank 

 Merrick). 



Two male examples, in good condition, neither with date of capture. 

 The example from Mr. Baker has been in my collection a long time awaiting 

 a mate; the example from Mr. Merrick is just received, and, while it is not 

 exactly a mate, it is at lea.st a duplicate that shows the species to be a good 

 one, and not discolored, as I had suspected. The peculiar reddish luteous 

 ground, the gray shading, and the tendency to a strigate t\'pe of maculation, 

 give the species a superficial resemblance to Morrisonia, and more especially 

 to mucens; but it is really allied to Hadena fumosa, and has the excision 

 below the apex of the secondaries well marked. 



