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visible except that there is a continuous series of excessively minute sub- 

 terminal dots, and the median vein is faintly marked with white and edged 

 with black, the white color accentuated at base of 3rd and 4th m. ner- 

 vules. Hind wings pale gray, whitish ; veins soiled. Beneath a blackish 

 shade marks the inception of s. t. line on costa, and the median vein is- 

 shaded at base of nervules. Hind wings with costa darker ; no lines or 

 spots. Face and pectus a little smoky ; forctibise pale outwardly. Thorax 

 gray ; abdomen paler. Eyes hairy. Expanse 34 mil. Kittery Point, 

 Mr. Thaxter. 



Hadena Hausta, n. s. 



^ . A small species related to the European H. Strigilis, but with 

 the dark shade not extending over the reniform, which with the s. t. space 

 is grayish. Deep brown from base to t. p. line except over reniform,. 

 beyond which the geminate t. p. line is exserted roundedly. Terminal 

 space narrow, ferruginous. A costo-apical light-brown spot on s. t. space. 

 Fringes dark, finely cut with pale. A black mark in place of claviform 

 spot, crossing median space. Median lines double, indistinct. Hind 

 wings pale fuscous, with mesial line ; beneath with distinct dot and a fine 

 dark line. Anal hairs somewhat yellowish. Head and thorax dusky 

 brownish. Smaller and darker than II. Modica. Expanse 21 mil. 

 Kittery Point, Me. Mr. Thaxter. 



ZOTHECA VlRIDIFERA GrOte. 



Allied to var. Viridiila of Tranquilla in color and size. The median 

 lines are nearer together on internal margin. An olive-green patch on 

 cell between the concolorous obsolete stigmata ; another larger and paler 

 tills the median space below s. m. fold to internal margin. Transverse 

 lines single, olivaceous ; t. p. exserted over median veins ; s. t. marked 

 only on costa. General color a faded pale olivaceous ; hind wings paler 

 with exterior line. Arizona ; coll. B. Neumoegen, Esq. 



Spragueia Sordida, n. s. 



An obscurely colored species, with the fore wings rather narrower than 

 usual. Primaries dark colored, fuscous brown, broken by pale scales, the 

 most prominent mark a pale yellowish costo-apical spot, set in a deep 

 brown pre-apical shade. The base is olive fuscous to a deeper brownish 

 transverse anterior band ; the disc is broken with pale scales to costa 

 enclosing a brown mark. The whole very indistinct. Hind wings silky 

 fuscous, deeper shaded terminally. Beneath silky fuscous ; costa of pri- 



