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each otlier reacliiiifj so far in towards iuiu-r margin as to almost form ringlets, 

 then an extra-discal gray band much clouded and striated with t)lackisli scales, 

 with a deep cloud alonjj costa. with a black snbniar<(inal line, scalloped, outwardly 

 dentate; marginal S])ace blackish below apex; hind wings fuscous, with a faint 

 middle lighter cross-line ; beneath light fuscous, faintly revealing the markings 

 above. 



Arizona. 



H. N|>Hr<<«iinat*iila u. sj).— Expands 28 mm. Palpi light cinereous, black 

 at end ; front and thorax gray. Abdomen fuscous dorsally, much lighter on sides 

 and below : fore wings light glaucous gray, washed with fuscous, with dark nuirk- 

 ings along costa showing the beginning of basal, discal, extra-discal and outer 

 cross-lines, these discernible across the wing only by the lighter edgii;g cross-lines 

 and a few black scales; a black spot at middle of inner margin and another at 

 anal angle; also one or two small black spots at ai)ex ; hind wings dull whitish, 

 with two faint, even rounded, broad cross-lines, and a faint submarginal line ; 

 lieneath even, lighter, very faintly showing markings above. 



California ; near some variations of //. cdliforniata Puck., espe- 

 cially those of the (jlaucata form. 



II. neo-inexicana u. sp. — Expands 38-42 mm. Palpi fuscous above, 

 blackish on sides and below; under part of head whitish; face fuscous black; 

 thorax dark fuscous to gi'ayish black. Abdomen dark fuscous, ringed with lighter 

 fuscous, a blackish spot dorsally on each segment. Wings varying from light to 

 dark fuscous, in fresh specimens darker, and then with a grayish olive shading ; 

 the whole surface of the fore wings is covered with scalloped cross-lines of vary- 

 ing intt'usity, the rounded part outward and generally subparallel, the lines being 

 of a lighter color, the interspaces darker; at the base the darker color is empha- 

 sized by blackish forming a darker basal space, then a broad, generally lighter 

 space to a broad central darker band, the inner line of this heavily shaded with 

 l)lackish outwardly, the outer line with blackish inwardly, the inner dentate 

 scalloi)ed. the outer more irregular than usual with two strongly j)rojecting outer 

 scallojis on veins 3 and 4; a subnuirginal outer line whitish, serrate on both .sides; 

 hind wings rather even fuscous, with faint indications of scalloped lin^s out- 

 wardly, especially near inner angle; beneath both wings light fuscous with a 

 <iuite blackish undulating hair line beyond middle, and a broad, even, submar- 

 ginal. blackish band ; marginal lighter, fringe (iheckered with black at end of 

 veins. 



Described from a number of specimens in collection of Neumoegen 

 and myself. Mr. Neumoegen's specimens are without locality, 

 though I think they were said to be from Florida. ]\[y own speci- 

 mens are from New Mexico (Cockerell), Colorado (Gillette) and 

 Florida. 



H. hcrbicolata n. sp. — Expands 18-20 mm. Palpi short, rather coarsely 

 haired, blackish or black and ocher gray mixed ; clypeus rather coareely long 

 haired, somewhat tufted ; thorax rather squamose, black and gray intermixed. 

 Abdomen fuscous ocher and black intermixed, tlie basal segment darker than the 



TRANS. AM. KNT. SOC. XXIII. AUGUST, 1896. 



