6 JOTIN B. SMITH. 



Ferrealis has the costal region, incliidiiig the ordinary spots a 

 reddish gray or yellow, while the rest of the wing is dnll rusty 

 brown, the lines all lost. There is no difficulty in separating off 

 this form, which is the most strongly contrasted of this series. The 

 male genitalia resemble those of innomliiata most nearly ; hut the 

 chisper is shorter, there is a slender tooth from the oblique ridge, 

 and the extension beyond the tip is stouter, the point blunt and less 

 drawn out. 



Amanda is a much lighter reddish gray than any of the other 

 species, the transverse niaculation obsolete, tending on the whole to 

 become strigate. The ordinary spots are not defined and there is a 

 reddish luteous shade through the median cell, extending beyond it 

 to the margin. Flown specimens have an indescribable faded tinge 

 that is characteristic. The male genitalia differ markedly from all 

 the preceding. The harpes are broad, the tip is oblique, its extreme 

 point with a very few marginal spinules. The clasper is rather 

 small and very slender. The oblique ridge does not start at the 

 clasper and ends before the tip. At its base there is a moderate, 

 rather narrow process, pointed at the tip, and at its extremity it is 

 produced into a slender, curved process, longer than the width of 

 harpes. 



Of the series of ashen gray species, there are a few that liave no 

 black longitudinal line or streak at base. This is a character that 

 must be used with some caution, because it sometimes happens that 

 a species which normally has such a line or streak loses it by fading, 

 or, on the other hand, in some dark exaniples of the present series 

 the black scales on the median vein may simulate a basal line. 

 Nevertheless, with a reasonable series of normal specimens, there is 

 no danger of confusion. 



Contcida, itata, fagina and lo)i(/ior are the species l)elonging here, 

 and the absence of this basal line is about the only thing that holds 

 them together. Yet there is a similarity in the general type of 

 genital structure, and it does not differ very markedly from that of 

 the preceding series. 



Contenta is a species of moderate size, the veins black marked, 

 and the interspaces with more or less evident black lines. The dis 

 tinctive feature is a series of four or more small black dots along 

 the margins of the ordinary spots, resembling in that particular cer- 

 tain species of Oiicullia. Everything is confused ; but the ordinarv 



