238 JOHN B. SMITH. 



Hah. — Sierra Nevada, California. 



Five males and seven females in my collection and in the collec- 

 tion American Museum of Natural History. I have long had two 

 of these examples as part of the intermediates between olivacea and 

 comu, and that is exactly what they look like. The male genitalia 

 are totally ditterent however, and ally the species to quadrUineata, 

 though with some tendency to normal olivacea in the patch of spi- 

 nules at the lower angle of the tip of the harpes. 



All the specimens came originally from the Henry Edwards' col- 

 lection, and the description was made from the males. The females 

 agree in all essential points, but are on the whole a little darker ; 

 not so much so, however, as is usual in this group of species. One 

 9 example only, marked Siskyou, California, is much darker and 

 also much smaller (25 mm.), and narrower winged than any other. 



It seems to fit this series in all other respects, and I have included 

 it as a cripple, without considering it in giving either size or general 

 locality. 

 Ulaniestra obiiigra u. sp. 



In general appearance and type of maculation like olivacea, with 

 a mossy greenish, but no trace of yellowish tinge anywhere on the 

 primaries. As a whole, the head and thorax vary from dark gray 

 to blackish, the disk of the patagise whitish in the female, in the 

 male tinged with reddish. Ordinary lines more or less well defined 

 in all examples, geminate, included space filled with white. Median 

 space always darkest, reaching an intense black in which the ordin 

 ary spots are not especially well defined. The orbicular is a mere 

 aunulus, the reniform small, paler, narrowly black margined, annu- 

 late with an inner dusky centre. There is an obvious tinge of green 

 in the basal space, and in the s. t. space this is more or less distinct, 

 especially toward hind margin on which all my female examples 

 show a half round dusky spot. There is a good deal of variation in 

 the relative contrasts in these markings, and also in the color of the 

 secondaries, which varies from whitish to smoky blackish, with all 

 intervals of smoky outer margin and white base. Size and habitat 

 have been already given. 



The specimen which I have placed here as a possible male is much 

 more contrasting in color, and a reddish tinge is (jbvious in basal 

 and s. t. spaces. The male characters have also been discussed. 



The three examples from Corvallis are really the typical series, 

 the darkest and freshest example being marked type. A second 

 example is much more fiown, the greenish largely faded ; but obvi- 

 ously it was a form very like the type when fresh. The third ex 



