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aries smoky, i^aler aud more yellowish iu the male. Beueath dark 

 smoky, primaries with an outer line marked on costal space only ; sec- 

 ondaries paler discally, with a small discal spot aud an outer line, be- 

 yond which the margin is darker. 



Expands 29-30"""; 1.16-1.20 inches. 



Habitat. — Northwest British Columbia. 



This species is allied to satis and rufula. From the former it differs 

 by the incomplete orbicular. It is a darker, shorter winged species, 

 with the cell more definitely dark filled. From rufula it differs in the 

 dark color and the lack of the distinct contrast between the median 

 space and the basal and s. t. spaces. The orbicular is as In rufula, but 

 the under side is much darker, with the maculation not marked. Two 

 specimens, $ and 9 , are before me, differing very decidedly iu appear- 

 ance. The male is paler, the maculation more distinct, and the pallor 

 of the basal space is more evident. The female is darker throughout, 

 the tendency along the costa and in the ordinary spots to a cinereous 

 powdering, the contrast between basal aud median space not well 

 marked. The S])ecies is not a strongly marked one, but is distinct, I 

 think. Though most dii]ticult to separate from the species above named, 

 it really gives the impression, in the 9 more especially, of tessellata. 

 It can not well be that species, however, variable as it is. It is a "good 

 deal more likely eventually to turn out a variety of rufula. 



Carneades satis ITarv. 



1876. Harv., Can. Ent., viii, 30, Jgrotis. 



Eed brown, powdered with gray ; transverse lines geminate T. a. 

 outwardly oblique, curved between veins T. ]). lunulate, outwardly 

 curved over cell, inwardly beneath S. t. line sinuate, preceded by a 

 dusky shade or dark spots ; terminal space a little darker. Claviform 

 outlined, concolorous. Ordinary spots large, concolorous; black ringed, 

 and marked with a few yellow scales. Secondaries fuscous. Beneath 

 fuscous, ])ow(lery, with distinct discal spot and obsolete common line. 

 Head and tliorax concolorous; collar with a black line. 



Expands 28-32-"; 1.12-1.28 inches. 



Habitat. — California, Nevada, Montana. 



A small species, rather illy defined. The resemblance to the typical 

 forms of the group is obvious, but the cell is not so distinctly black, 

 rather powdered with dark. Dr. Harvey's description is unusually 

 poor and comparative with another species, itself described only com- 

 paratively. From Mr. Edwards' collection I have a specimen labeled 

 satis and from Mr. Tepper's collection one so determined by Mr. Grote. 

 Several other specimens agree with these, but none are entirely like 

 the description. The type, I understand, came into Mr. Grote's hands, 

 and his identification is probably correct and therefore here adopted. 



