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of the posterior tibiae. The middle femora of the male have no sexual 

 tufting nor store of specialized scales. 



The male genitalia are symmetrical or nearly so, but the penis 

 sheath is bent and curved to a moderate extent. 



The depressions on the upper side of the penultimate segment are 

 well defined and marked by discolored scales. The lobes on the under 

 side are almost equal in size and approximately so in form. The 

 opening to the copulatory pouch is at the upper inner angle of the 

 right lobe, almost central as to the segment, and comes from the inner 

 margin entirely. 



There seems to be no doubt that GueneVs figure in the Species 

 General refers to this species and not to the true lunifera of Hiibner, 

 and the hitter's figure lends itself very easily to this misidentification. 

 It is equally certain that Hiibner did not have this particular species 

 before him in his work. 



PH^OCYMA COLORADO, new species. 



Ground color dull fuscous, more or less washed with gray or brown. 

 Head lighter or darker than ground, with or without a dark frontal 

 line, sometimes with a gray line as well. Collar with a distinct black 

 line inferiorly, and a broader, brown band near tip. Thorax with 

 two more or less obvious transverse lines, which may or may not be 

 edged with white scales posteriorly. Abdomen with the dorsal tuft- 

 iugs conspicuous. Primaries with the wings conspicuously strigil- 

 late, the basal and s. t. spaces always darker than the other portions. 

 Basal line geminate, black, usually well marked. T. a. line geminate, 

 often in the form of a broad, brown, even band, preceded by a narrow- 

 pale line, only a little irregular outwardly. Beyond this line there is 

 in the male always, and in the female sometimes, a whitish or very 

 pale area merging gradually into the darker outer portion of the 

 median space. There is no orbicular in any of my specimens. Reni- 

 foiin small or moderate, lunate, uniformly dark brown or blackish, 

 yet not conspicuous and without defining lines. T. p. line narrow, 

 single, black or brown, always complete, with the usual inward tooth 

 on the cell moderate, and the line otherwise only a little irregular. 

 S. t. line slender, black, nearly parallel with the t. p. line from inner 

 margin to middle, where it forms an obtuse angle and diverges out- 

 wardly so as to reach the costa well within the apex. The s. t. space 

 is dark throughout, but above the angulation it tends to become paler 

 than elsewhere, and it darkens again on the costa, forming a eon- 

 -pieuously darker, roughly triangular patch. Terminal area more 

 or less gray in the male and sometimes in the female; usually with 

 an oblong dark apical patch. There is a black, erenulated terminal 

 line, exaggerating the lines of the outer margin, with a white dot 

 at the incisions and a tendency to a dusky line across the fringes 



