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velvety pile of livid gray. Head, thorax above and primaries above 

 silver-gray, with a mixture of scattered black scales, frosted with white in 



part. Abdomen and secondaries a 

 dusky silver-gray. Head and thorax 

 rough scaled ; a tuft overhanging front 

 between antennae. Primaries are 

 marked with jet-black lines, one of 

 which crosses costa at a sharp angle 

 about one-fourth out. Another runs 

 from centre of wing-base along vein 

 beneath cell to its end, and a third 

 from point of cell to apex of wing, 

 broken at its middle by a sharp angle. 

 Below this line to inner margin a 

 series of long sharp points, outlined 

 by a fine black hair line, rest on the 

 veins, their bases joined about centre 

 of wing into an irregular patch. The 

 two lower points are shorter and 

 broader than the rest. Another long 

 point reaches backward through centre of cell nearly to its base, onebe- 

 neatli the black line along its lower margin, and a third, short and broad, 

 between this and inner margin. The included space within these points, 

 and the patch at centre, is a livid gray, almost free from the frosting of 

 white scales, which cover the rest of the surface, form- 

 ing a snow-white patch above and bordering the black 

 line apex. A short black dash, ending in a cluster of 

 black scales at margin, between the ends of veins. 

 Fringes dusky gray, long and silken. Secondaries 

 without markings. Fringes as on primaries. No discal 

 dots. A fine black marginal line. Beneath ashen, dusky along costa 

 of primaries, and outwardly on all wings, which are bordered with a fine 

 black marginal line. Fringes as above. No discal dots. Body be- 

 neath and legs pale ash-gray, sprinkled with black atoms. 



Type, ^ from San Diego, Calif., taken Oct. 9, 1910, and thirteen 

 male co-types, Oct. 28, 1911, are in author's collection. 



Fig. 5. — Parexcelsa tcltraria, venation. 



Fig. 6.— p. uUraria, 

 front view of head. 



The female is 



unknown to me. 



