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Squammularis is still better defined, has the median shade as a 

 prominent feature, and the area between it and the basal line gray, 

 so as to form a fairly obvious smooth fascia. 



Benesignata has this fascia very much intensified. The entire in- 

 sect is more powdery, the median shade is really a well developed 

 upright band, and the pale space between it and t. a. line is light 

 gray or even whitish, forming a very conspicuous species. 



Largera equals obliqua in size and somewhat in appearance, but is 

 powdery throughout, the colors are ash gray and diffuse, and while 

 the median shade is conspicuous, none of the markings are black or 

 contrasting. 



Dwplicata is a rough, powdery species without strong contrasts of 

 any kind. The lines and shades are all traceable and all well enough 

 marked; but they are all obscured by the dark powdering and must 

 be closely scanned to be made out. In the male there is an area of 

 white scales above the hind angle of primaries that relieves matters 

 somewhat, at the expense of even less definition for the rest of the 

 wing. 



Bethunei is smaller than dwplicata and even more powdery and 

 obscure, without the white shading in the male. But there is an 

 obvious shade of red in the ground color, which is marked in the area 

 over the reniform. 



In the section Zale there are only a few species, not so closely allied 

 as a whole, and yet not more divergent than those of the Phceocyma 

 series. 



Two species, cingulifera and woodii, stand out from the others by 

 their conspicuous transverse strigillation, and yet in other respects 

 they are not at all alike. 



Cingulifera has the thorax unusually short, the tuftings uplifted 

 posteriorly, and whitish marked so as to be quite conspicuous, not 

 unlike the same feature in horrida. The primaries have the costa 

 unusually arched toward base, making them less than usually tri- 

 angular. The basal area is conspicuously darker and the reniform is 

 pale, marked with brown lines. 



Colorado is more normal as to wing form and thoracic tufting, and 

 has the reniform dusky. The basal area is also dark, but in this 

 species the s. t. line is very distinctly marked, outwardly angulated at 

 the middle, and the terminal area is whitish marked and well defined. 



Rubiata is a yellowish brown species with the basal space darker, 

 the t. ]>. and s. t. lines well defined, and together forming a well-marked 

 outward angulation at the middle. From this there may be a brown 

 shading into the median space, but the terminal area is usually left 

 as the palest part of the wings. 



Rubi is the same thing in gray; a little softer and more evenly 

 marked throughout. It is not improbable that the differences as they 



