46 JOHN B. SMITH. 



Hah. — British Columbia. 



Two males, collected by Mr. C. J. Weidt, are before me. The 

 species is most nearly related to oblata Morr. ; but differs obviously 

 in the coloration and maculation. I do not know of any s])ecies 

 with which it could be easily confused. 



Carneades siccala n. sp. (PI. ii, fig. 1) — Very pale, whitish gray, with a 

 more or less obvious yellowish tinge. Head and thorax iiumaeiilate. Primaries 

 more or less powdered with black scales, often darkening the subterminal spaces. 

 Basal line present, black, geminate, interrupted. T. a. line black, geminate, 

 inner line diffuse, powdery, outer line outcurved between the veins, slightly ob- 

 lique in general course. T. p. line black, geminate, the outer line lost in the 

 black powderings, the inner line lunulate, variable in distinctness, in one 

 case almost obsolete; in general course it is evenly and not greatly outcurved 

 over the cell and rather evenly oblique below. S. t. line of the ground color, 

 irregularly but not greatly sinuate, relieved by the dark powderings in the s. t. 

 and terminal spaces, and distinct in proportion to the amount of these powder- 

 ings. A blackish diffuse median shade, variable in distinctness, crosses the wing 

 between the ordinary spots. A series of more or less obvious black terminal 

 lunules. Claviform wanting in the specimens. Reniform large, kidney-shaped, 

 black, forming a prominent feature in the wing. Secondaries white, veins and a 

 slender discal lunule a little fuscous. Beneath white, with blackish powderings 

 along the costa and an indefinite discal spot on all wings. Expands 34-37 mm. ; 

 1.36-1.48 inches. 



Hab. — Colorado, Bruce; No. 140. 



Two males and one female are before me, differing quite markedly 

 in the amount of the black powderings on the primaries. In one 

 case the s. t. space is entirely dusky, in the next it is half black, 

 intense at the s. t. line and shading out toward the t. p. line ; in the 

 third the space is only very slightly more powdered than the rest of 

 the wing. The thoracic vestiture is dense, loose and divergent, the 

 antennpe of the male bipectinated. This hitter character forbids the 

 reference of the species to any of the established groups of the genus, 

 and it is the first thus far described with pectinated antennje. I 

 considered it at first a Porosagrotis allied to rileyana, some forms of 

 which it resembles quite closely, but the sexual characters are dis- 

 tinctly those of Carneades, the bifurcated clasper being very obvious. 



Carneades edictalis n. sp. (PI. ii, fig. 3). — Dull fuscous in general 

 color. A blackish line across collar, else head and thorax concolorous. Basal 

 line geminate, black, variably distinct, but always interrupted on the cell. T. a. 

 line geminate, outcurved between the veins, slightly oblique outwardly in gen- 

 eral course. The inner line is brown and somewhat diffuse, the outer black and 

 better defined. T. p. line geminate, the outer line vague, the inner blackish, 

 crenulate in its course, evenly outcurved over the cell, and as evenly oblique 



