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the size of that on the left, obliquety oval in form, with the opening 

 to the copulatory pouch taking up most of the upper margin. 

 The species is probably not at all uncommon. 



PH-ffiOCYMA RUBIATA, new species. 



Ground color a grayish, luteous brown, dull and sordid. Head 

 concolorous. Collar with a blackish line inferiorily. Thorax with- 

 out markings. Abdomen with the tuftings small, especially in the 

 female. Primaries very little powdery, very flat in tint. Basal space 

 a little darker, especially in the male. Basal line geminate, brown, 

 traceable in most specimens. T. a. line geminate, forming a broad 

 brown band which is outwardly edged with black, and inwardly de- 

 fined by a narrow yellowish line; in course very even, forming no 

 obvious dents or angulations. There is no obvious orbicular. In the 

 males the median space usually becomes a little more reddish-brown 

 outwardly, but in all the females at hand it remains uniform. The 

 reniform is of moderate size, lunate or kidney shape, usually a little 

 darker, more or less obviously defined by an edging of darker scales 

 and by a pale outer line which may extend all around the macula. 

 T. p. line very slender, usually blackish, but sometimes only a little 

 darker than the ground; a very moderate indentation opposite the 

 cell and in most specimens a slight though well-marked angle on vein 

 2. In the males the s. t. space is usually darker than the other spaces ; 

 in the females it is concolorous. S. t. line black, usually the most 

 distinct feature of the wing, inwardly diffuse, followed by a variably 

 evident pale line which, in some specimens, tends to interrupt the line 

 on the veins and give it a somewhat lunate appearance. In course the 

 line is parallel with the t. p., and equidistant from it from the in- 

 ternal margin to vein 7, whence it extends outwardly oblique to the 

 costa. An oblique brown to blackish shade extends from the edge of 

 the s. t. line on vein 7 to the apex. Terminal space in the female 

 concolorous throughout; in the male it contrasts a little against the 

 darker s. t. space and there is a tendenc} r to a gray powdering beyond 

 the s. t. line, especially below the middle. There is a brown terminal 

 line, preceded by a series of black points in the interspaces, and there 

 is a pale line at base of fringes. Secondaries with two or three ob- 

 scure brown shade lines across the disk, followed by a geminate outer 

 line, which represents the continuation of the t. p. and s. t. lines of 

 primaries; the intervening space more or less distinctly brown-filled 

 in both sexes. The outer of these lines is the most distinct, and there 

 is usually an obvious outward dent in the interspace beyond the cell, 

 forming a small W. The terminal lines and dots are as in the prima- 

 ries. Beneath yellowish, more or less powdery, ranging from im- 



