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Atomaris is a close-ally and may possibly prove a race of the preced- 

 ing-. The color is paler, powdery, the maculatiou usually distiuct. 



Texana and gagates ave distinguished by somewhat more produced 

 apices of primaries, the colors leaving the gray to black type and get- 

 ting toward fuscous or browu; the secondaries dusky. Texana is a 

 large species, the maculatiou fairly evident, the ground color varying 

 from a clay-yellow shot with reddish to a rather deep red brown, the 

 nuiculatiou becoming indefinite and sub obsolete. Gagates is smaller 

 narrower- winged, red brown, the ordinary spots always distinct, dusky, 

 the transverse lines obsolete. 



The balance of the species vary from a pale ash to a darker shade of 

 the same color, mingled with a variable quantity of yellow and red. 



Three species have pure white secondaries. Citricolor has bright 

 lemon yellow primaries, the terminal space rather darker. Misturata is 

 sordid luteous, evenly colored, the ordinary spots and transverse lines 

 visible. Moorens is a close ally of citricolor, but with a paler rusty 

 shade, the lines more distinct. This species is omitted from the synop- 

 sis because I did not have it for comi)arison when the tables were made 

 up. It is the type of the genus. 



Four species have the secondaries pearly gray, somewhat irridescent. 



Dolis has the primaries very pale, even bluish gray, the t. p. line indi- 

 cated by a row of v/hitish, lunate spots. 



Scandens is a very variable species in the shade of gray, but it is al- 

 ways distinguishable by the well-defined s. t. line, which is preceded by 

 a distinct, darker shade. 



Choris differs obviously ; it is of a rather dark shade of gray, the 

 transverse Hues rather even and well defined, the ordinary spots dis- 

 tiuct, completely outlined. 



Eemota is paler with a decided carneous shade, the ordinary spots dis- 

 tinctly marked. 



In the remaining species the secondaries are dusky or fuscous. 



Three of the species have conrparatively narrower, moderately elon- 

 gate wings, much as in the immediately preceding forms, but narrower 

 than the other species in the same series. 



Pitychrous varies in shade from a rather pale clay yellow to rather 

 dark fuscous gray. The median and terminal spaces are always darker, 

 the ordinary spots evident and discolorous, s. t. line even. 



Infracta is a smaller species, clay yellow, sordid, the median and ter- 

 minal spaces darker, s. t. line very irregular, ordinary spots not discol- 

 orous. 



Luleola is very evenly colored, sordid clay yellow, with concolorous 

 ordinary spots. The orbicular is very small, the s. t. line even, some- 

 what remote from outer margin. 



The remaining two species are shorter and wider winged, the wings 

 more distinctly triangular. 



Serricornis is an ochreous species with prominent s. t. line preceded 

 by a distinct dark shade, the remaining maculatiou indistinct. 



