14 JOHN B. SMITH. 



TABLE OF SPECIES. 



1. Species with a reddish, brown or yellowish shading:, never ashen or blackish. 



gray 2. 



Ashen or blackish gray species 7. 



2. Fringes of primaries dentate; t. a. line with a great outward tooth in the 

 submedian interspace, followed by a dusky patch connecting with the 



t. p. line 3. 



Fringe of primaries even; t. a. line evenly outcurved in the interspaces, 

 without a long tooth approaching the t. p. line ; color reddish. 



seiniiista. 



3. Creamy or reddish gray, with a distinct basal black line; ordinary spots de- 



fined 4. 



Whitish yellow to reddish luteous, no obvious basal black line, orbicular ob- 

 scured 5. 



Ked or gray-brown, with an obscure, brown or black basal line ; orbicular elon- 

 gate, decumbent, maculatiou tending to become strigate and lost- . • .6. 



4. Ground color soft creamy gray ; markings black, but not distinctly relieved. 



hemina. 



Ground color with a distinct red or brownish shading; markings distinctly 



relieved diNpowita. 



5. Whitish, with luteous washings and shadings, maculation fairly defined ; 



secondaries paler ... . belli iiiiei. 



Somewhat more grayish, maculation washed out; secondaries smoky or 



blackish patef acta. 



Luteous, with reddish shadings, maculation fairly defined ; secondaries 



blackish iiiiioiuinata. 



6. Bright red-brown; costa marked with white; ordinary spots ringed with 



white; s. t. line white marked oriiiiida. 



Uniform purplish red, with a gray bloom, not strigate; reniform a rusty yel- 

 low stain gauNapata. 



Costal region yellowish or grayish ; lower portion of primaries dark rusty 

 brown, obscuring all maculation ; ordinary spots not white ringed ; 

 s. t. line luteous ferrealis. 



Uniform rusty and gray streaked; all the maculation obscured; ordinary 

 spots evident Mignosa. 



Washed out reddish gray, streaky, all maculatiou as well as the ordinary 

 spots lo.st aiiiaiKla. 



7. No black basal streak or longitudinal line 8. 



A slender black longitudinal line extending beyond the basal half line and 



not in any way joined to it 9. 



A black line from the base extends to and connects with the basal half line, 

 forming a sort of curved mark at base which is often margined above 

 by paler scales 13. 



8. With short fine black streakings in the interspaces; a series of s. t. spots; 



ordinary spots marked by a number of black dots couleiita. 



Uniform soft ashen gray, with slender black lines in the submedian inter- 

 space only ; ordinary spots visible but not defined ilata. 



Costa a little white marked ; veins narrowly black lined and, in the inter- 

 spaces, are disconnected dentate lines, as if parts of very strongly 

 dentate median lines; ordinary spots practically lost fagiiia. 



