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and on the median vein and costa are some dark scales indicating a 

 geminate basal line. Median space concolorous or crossed by vague, 

 transverse dusky shadings. Orbicular wanting in the specimens. 

 Reniform rather long, kidney-shaped, almost lunate, edged with 

 yellow scales. T. p. line very slender, black, outwardly exserted over 

 the cell to vein 4, then with a decided incurve obliquely to the inner 

 margin ; a little drawn in opposite the reniform. S. t. line black, dis- 

 tinct, inwardly oblique from costa to the indrawing of t. p. line oppo- 

 site reniform, then close to and parallel with that line for the balance 

 of its course. The outward angle is well marked between veins 3 

 and 4, and a dusky shade may extend from that point to the margin. 

 There may be an oblique, dusky apical shade. There is a very nar- 

 row, crenulated terminal line, followed by an equally narrow pale 

 line at the base of fringes, a very minute dusky dot marking the in- 

 dentations of these lines on the interspaces. Secondaries basally a 

 little paler, disk crossed by obscure transverse dusky shadings. Be- 

 yond this the usual double line, of which the inner is black and 

 thread-like, continuing the t. p. line of primaries, and the outer better 

 marked, broader, inwardly diffuse, outwardly bordered by a pale 

 shade line; this combination tends to terminate at apex rather than 

 on the costa. Terminal lines as on the primaries. Beneath yellow- 

 ish gray, powdery, all wings with a discal spot and an extra-median 

 line; that on the secondaries more or less crenulate. 



Expands, 1.48-1.60 inches = 37-40 mm. 



Habitat. — Soda Springs, Siskiyou County, May 31 ; Yosemite Val- 

 ley; both in California. 



I have only one male and one female, the former from the Dyar 

 collection in the U. S. National Museum, taken by Mr. J. B. Lembert, 

 the latter given me by Mr. Henry Edwards, and almost a duplicate 

 of his type. The Arizona localities given refer, I think, to the species 

 that I have called rubiata, and whose relations I have already dis- 

 cussed. In addition to what has been previously said it may be 

 pointed out that the angle of s. t. line in rubi is decidedly more acute 

 and produced, and does not tend to form an obtuse curve involving 

 the interspaces between the 4th and 5th, as well as 3d and 4th. veins. 



As for the structure of legs and genitalia, they are as described for 

 rubiata, with such differences as are best brought out by a comparison 

 of the figures given. 



PHiEOCYMA YAVAPAI, new species. 



Ground color very dark brown, powdered with black, so that at 

 first sight the insects appear almost black. Head powdered with 

 gray; a more or less obvious gray and black frontal line, and a similar 

 line on the vertex. Collar gray tipped, with a distinct black median 

 transverse line in all specimens. Primaries with basal space a little 



