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by a carved black line, outwardly vague aud iudeflnite, but usually 

 traceable. Secondaries iu the male pearly with a smoky tiuge ; in the 

 female somewhat darker. Beneath white, powdery, with a variably 

 distinct outer line and discal spot to all wings. 



Expands 38-44"""; 1.50-1.75 inches. 



Habitat. — California (Neumoegen). 



Four specimens S and 9 are before me, no two of which are alike 

 and which yet vary very slightly. The transverse lines are more or 

 less obsolete, and the concolorous ordinary spots with their narrow 

 black outline and markings are somewhat variable in shape and iu 

 their relations to each other. In type of marking there is a curious re- 

 semblance to clandesthm, but the coloration and wing form are quite 

 different. The thoracic tufting is not distinct, but is well indicated. 

 The vestiture is rather loose. 



Carneades hollemani Grt. 

 1874. Grt., Can. Eut., vi, 15G, Jgrotis. 



Fuscous, more or less irrorate or strigate with white; costal space 

 usually distinctly white; the terminal space is darker, strongly in- 

 dented on some veins, 3 aud 4 particularly, by white streaks. A dis- 

 tinct basal black streak, invading the cell and surrounding the white 

 confluent, somewhat bottle-shaped, ordinary spots, claviform narrowly 

 outlined with black. All transverse lines obsolete. Secondaries fus- 

 cous. Beneath paler, powdery, with iudefined discal spots. Head and 

 thorax concolorous; collar with a broad black shade. 



Expands 31-3G"'"^; 1.20-1.40 inches. 



Habitat. — California; Arizona; Colorado. 



A uniquely-marked species, resembling lagena of an entirely differ- 

 ent group. The confluent ordinary spots, combined somewhat more 

 gourd than bottle-shaped, and the white strigate maculation is entirely 

 unique in the structurally allied species. The anterior tibia is 'less 

 heavily armed at tip than most species of the group. It somewhat 

 resembles insertans of the preceding group, but differs in the group 

 characters. 



Carneades atristrigata sp. nov. 



Ashen gray, black powdered; collar with a black transverse line. 

 Primaries heavily black powdered, all the transverse maculation obso- 

 lete. Orbicular elongate, narrow, fused with the small, upright reni- 

 form, also all the normal maculation absent. A paler shade runs from 

 the end of the cell to the apex, and veins 3 and 4 are white marked 

 nearly to the margin, lightening that region. The fringes are cut with 

 white. Secondaries white, with a broad, soiled outer margin. 



Expands 30"""; 1.20 inches. 



Habitat. — Northwest British Columbia. 



The ordinary spots are small and scarcely distinct. The specimen is 



