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Proiiocfiia fypica n. sp. (PI. iv, fig. 1) — Ground color a reddish luteous- 

 Front of lieiul l)lackisli brown, vertex yellowish. Thorax concoloroiis. Primaries 

 more or less black [jowdcred. all the normal markings present. Basal line gemi- 

 nate, blackish, not strongly marked. T. a. line outwardly oblique, and outcurved 

 between the veins; geminate, the inner line indistinct, the outer black and dis- 

 tinct. T. p. Hue single, black, strongly denticulate, outcurved over the reuiform, 

 almost evenly oblique below. S. t. line irregular, concolorous, marked by a dusky 

 preceding shade. A series of indistinct terminal dots. Fringes pale, with a dusky 

 interline. A broad, diffuse, blackish median shade, obscuring the reniform, and 

 darkening the outer part of the niedian space. Claviform wanting. Orbicular 

 small or moderate, concolorous, indistinctly outlined, centred with blackish. 

 Reniform upright, of good size, kidney-shaped, black ringed, more or less ob- 

 scured by the dusky median shade. Secondaries yellowish fuscous, shining, the 

 veins somewhat darker, and the fringes paler. Beneath very pale yellowish, 

 with an incomplete outer line and discal spot on all wings. Expands 44-48 mm. ; 

 1.75-1.92 inches. 



^a6.— Colorado, Bruce ; Nos. 229,491. 



This is a large species, and is not unlike my clemens in appear- 

 ance, but. is more red in color. In the pattern of maculation it is 

 like its congener, pyrophiloides. 



Noctiia (lavoHiida n. sp. (PI. i, first row, fig. 2) — Head and thorax a 

 rather pallid yellowish; palpi chestnut-brown laterally; vertex tipped with 

 scales of the same brown; collar brown, with a dark tip and central line; a 

 small thoracic crest immediately behind the collar, also brown. The breast and 

 a fringing to the legs is of the same tint. Primaries brown, basal space largely 

 yellow tinted, especially at costa, along which the same tint extends to the s. t. 

 space and there cros.ses the wing as a marginal shading to the t. p. Hue. Basal 

 half line black marked acro-es the pallid costa. T. a. line indistinctly geminate, 

 the outer part of the line black, the inner portion defined inferiorly only by the 

 contrast between the pale filling and the more brownish base. In course the 

 Hue is outwardly oblique, a little bent on the cell in one specimen, and with a 

 rather distinct outcurve below the submedian vein. T. p. \me rather evenly out- 

 curved, indistinctly geminate, the inner parts distinctly margined by the brown 

 median space, the yellow filling outwardly rather diffuse b.:tweeu the veins 

 which are dusky, giving a somewhat radiate appearance. The s. t. space darkens 

 outwardly, sharply defining the somewhat irregular s. t. Hue; the latter is yel- 

 low, outwardly diffuse. The terminal space is concolorous or somewhat paler, 

 in the latter case with a dusky terminal line; the fringes also with a dark inter- 

 line. A black dash at base, not crossing t. a. Hue. Claviform moderate, black- 

 filled. Median cell before and between the orditiary s])ots black-filled. Reniform 

 upright, somewhat constricted centrally and dilated, decanter-like, inferiorly; a 

 narrow, pale annulus and a central pale line, else concolorous with the orbicular. 

 Orbicular oblique, narrow ovate, touching the pallid costa, but completely ringed 

 by a paler yellow annulus and somewhat paler centred than grouud color. 

 Secondaries fuscous, somewhat paler basally ; an indefinite discal lunule. Fringes 

 rather contrasting, yellowish. Beneath, primaries blackish, the margins yel- 

 lowish brown; secondaries yellowish, lilack powdered, with an outer black line 

 and discal lunule. Expands 34 mm. ; 1.36 inches. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXI. FEBRUARY, 1894. 



