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the copulatory pouch is at the upper inner angle of the right lobe, 

 taking in the angle itself and not either side or top alone. 



This species is one of those that has been confused with obliqua 

 and is very like it. Superficially it lacks the gray washing, and while 

 this does not seem very much of a distinction, yet a comparison of 

 two series shows a very marked difference in appearance. It also 

 averages smaller in size, although the smallest obliqua is smaller than 

 any of my metata; but the average obliqua uniformly exceeds the 

 average metata. The tranverse marking is more conspicuous and 

 the reniform more contrasting and these factors when added to the 

 lack of gray wash give a characteristic appearance that is recog- 

 nizable. Finally, and this of course is the determining factor, the 

 genital structures of both sexes shows obvious differences, less marked, 

 perhaps, in the male than in the female, where the character of the 

 lobes and the location of the opening of the copulatory pouch are 

 quite different. A comparison of the figures will make this point 

 more clear. 



PHjEOCYMA CUREMA, new species. 



Varies from fawn to mouse gray, the base being a light red-brown, 

 more or less overlaid by a wash of blue-gray; the vestiture even, not 

 rough or velvety. Head and thorax concolorous; head sometimes a 

 little darker brown, and collar sometimes a little more rusty than the 

 general ground. Abdomen more rusty brown, the dorsal tufts small 

 but conspicuous when they are not altogether lost. Primaries rather 

 even in color, without strong contrasts, the transverse maculation 

 clean cut. Basal line single, black, distinct. T. a. line single, nar- 

 row, usually black and distinct, irregular, an outward tooth on the 

 subcostal and a long inward angle on the median vein. T. p. line 

 often obsolete, sometimes only partially traceable, brown and thread- 

 like, rarely distinct throughout its course, and only occasionally black. 

 In course it has the usual exsertion over the reniform, with an inward 

 angulation opposite the middle of cell, and the deep incurve, parallel 

 with the s. t. line, below it. S. t. line usually black and distinct 

 through the lower part of its course, but above the angulation at its 

 middle it is indistinct, marked chiefly by the margin of the darker 

 s. t. space. There is more or less gray powdering in the terminal 

 splice, but there is no terminal line and the fringes are uniform. 

 The basal portion of the median space is usually a little the palest 

 portion of the wing, and is limited outwardly by a straight shade 

 line that is scarcely darker in most examples and never distinct, 

 marking the edge of the somewhat ' darker portion of the median 

 space. No trace of an orbicular in any specimen. Reniform lunate, 

 usually black, contrasting, always obviously darker than the ground, 

 and beyond it is a rusty red shade which extends to the t. p. line or 

 the place where it should be. Secondaries somewhat duller in color 



