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cell. This, tUe usually very distinctly .yoininate transverse lines anil 

 the smooth s(iuaniniation, will ordinarily sullice to distinguish the forms 

 of the species. 



Verticalis is ai>i)lied to a tolerably constant bright carneous j^ray form 

 from Colorado and Montana; none of the other forms are well enouj;fh 

 marked to receive sei)arate designation. 



The only species with which the present is likely to be at all confused 

 are tesseUata aud nigripennis, and the differences authorizing^ those spe- 

 cies are pointed out in the descrii)tions thereof. 



The synonymy of the species as 1 have it at present is in compliance 

 with Mr. Butler's references in the Transactions of the Entomological 

 Society of London for 1889. There does not seem much room for erior 

 in so stronj;ly marked a species. The distribution is wide, but does 

 not seem to extend southward. The species occurs in northern New 

 York, but I have not seen it from Long Island. It does not seem to be 

 found in the Central States, but re-appears in the high Western plateaus. 



Canieades leAwisi Grt. 

 IHl.i. Grt., Hutr. Hull., i, 1:57, pi. 4, f. 10, ricoitectopoila. 



" S Reddish i)urple brown, not uidike Atjrotis plecta or leucostigiiKi in 

 genci'al color, but nu)re robust, and without the puie longitudinal shades 

 on primaries. Transverse lines obliterate; median lines dark, narrow, 

 faint ; t. p. line sublunulate, projected opposite the cell, running evenly 

 to internal margin. Ordinary spots large, concolorous, with a narrow, 

 l)ale, powdery edging se[)arated by the black, welldelined shade which 

 tills iq) the cell and is slightly ai)i)areut before the orbicular. Median 

 shade ai)parent below the orbicular and ap[)roximate to the t. p. line. 

 Subterminal line, pale. Terminal space duller, paler, less red than tlie rest 

 of the wing; no terminal line, fringes concolorous. Hind wings pale, 

 testaceous fuscous, silky, without marks above or below. Head and 

 thorax reddish ; feet pale dotted ; abdomen a little darker than sec- 

 oiularies. Costal edge of i>rimaries with antea[)ical pale dots, visible 

 on the red-stained costal edge beneath. The forewings beneath are like 

 secondaries without marks." 



Exi)ands 34 """; 1.3G inches. 



llAEiTAT.— Colorado. (Coll. T. L, Mead.) 



In the description of the genus Fleonectopoda Mr. Groto well defines 

 the characters of the tessetlata grou[). There is thus no doubt of the 

 l)osition of the species which I am strongly inclined to believe a mere 

 variety of tcssellata. I have specinuMis agreeing perfectly with the de- 

 scription as to color, but all have the t. a. line i)erfectly distinct, and 

 none are immaculate beneath. On these two points apparently rests 

 the claim of this insect to rank as a species. It must be provokingly 

 close to some of the reddish forms of tessellata, but may be entirely 

 distinct. 



