122 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Annaphila variegata nov. sp. 



Head and thorax bronzed brown mottled with blue and white scales, the latter 

 tending to form a white tip to the collar. Abdomen orange, dorsum blackish, the 

 segments narrowly orange-ringed. Primaries with basal area grayish brown to t.a. 

 line; the median space, except reniform, darker, more or less blue- powdered; reni- 

 form, and obliquely below to the imaer angle, white or very pale orange-yellowish 

 merging outwardly into a dusky terminal and apical shade in which a black-edged 

 s.t. line is prominent to the middle: the line itself consists of scattered white scales 

 forming a white mark on costa, and beyond it are blue scales. Basal line dark 

 chocolate-brown. T.a. line geminate, black or blackish, forming a sharp outward 

 tooth in the sub-median interspace, and almost or quite meeting an inward tooth of 

 the median shade; black scales connecting the two when they do not actually meet. 

 Median shade line black, very irregular, keeping close to the t.p. line so far as that 

 is defined below the reniform. T.p. line discontinuous, brown, and partly defined 

 by the s.t. space from costa over cell, broken opposite the lower angle of the reni- 

 form, where a loop-like extension of the dark median space forms the lower angle of 

 that spot, then black, wath an inward angle on vein 2. Orbicular very obscure, 

 round, concolorous, traceable by an outline of black scales. Reniform a large white 

 or faintly orange blotch, inwardly and inferiorly defined, upwardly extending to 

 costa, and outwardly merging into the s.t. space. There is a series of black termi- 

 nal spots which tends to become sagittate above the pale area. There is a pale 

 line at the base of the long fringes, which are brown with a black interline, and out- 

 wardly checkered gray and brown. Secondaries orange-yellow, varying in depth; 

 the males paler, with a broad black outer band ha\-ing an irregular inner margin, 

 a more or less continuous narrow sub-basal band, and a black spot on the inner 

 margin above the anal angle. Beneath, orange; primaries with a broad outwardly 

 oblique black band, a black sub-marginal band which is broad from costa to the 

 middle, where it touches the inner margin and is then very narrow and linear, and a 

 black outer border, which is separated from the black fringes by a very narrow 

 orange line; secondaries with a broken black inner line, a fragmentary median line 

 indicated by two spots near inner and one on costal margin, a very irregular outer 

 band more or less connected with the narrow black outer margin. 



Expands .88-.95 in. = 22-24 mm. 



Habitat: Placer County, California, 2500 feet. 



Five males and five females, in good condition and all very much alike. 

 The males are uniformly a little smaller and less intensely colored, with the 

 inner black band on secondaries more generally broken. There is no black 

 discal spot on secondaries, and the maculation of the primaries is more like 

 the yellow-winged forms than any other of the orange-winged species, 

 except miona. 



Erastria puncticosta nov. sp. 



Ground-color verj"- pale ashen with a smoky gray powdering and overlay. Head 

 and collar dark chocolate-brown, but varying toward the ground. Primaries with 

 large brown costal spots at the inception of the basal, t.a. and t.p. lines, and beyond 



