82 JOHN B. SMITH. 



Abdomen with dorsal tufts aud apical segments black, the latter tipped with 

 white scales, basal segments laterally fawn-gray. Primaries black, the basal 

 space above the middle and the costal region nearly to the s. t. line white, crossed 

 by a black band representing the t. a. line; a second representing the median 

 shade above the space between the ordinary spots; and a third representing the 

 t. p. line. The median lines except as thus represented are obsolete. The ordi- 

 nary spots are not defined and are white, merging into the costal region. The 

 claviform is vatruely traceable. The s. t. line is white, interrupted, very strongly 

 and irregularly dentate. Fringes white, cut with smoky brown spots. Secon- 

 daries smoky fuscous, paler basal ly, fringes whitish, with a smoky interline. 

 Beneath, primaries smoky, black powdered, more densely so outwardly ; a black- 

 ish outer line on both pairs of wings. Expands 34 mm. ; 1.32 inches. 



Hah. — Victoria, British Columbia. 



The unique male type is with Mr. Neumoegen. The species is so 

 contrastingly marked that there can be no possible difficulty in iden- 

 tifying it. It is more nearly related to Mr. Grote's Valeria conserta, 

 which also belongs to this genus, than it is to my ohliquata. It is a 

 very pretty insect indeed. 



Calocampa brucei n. sp. (PI. i, second row, fig. 2) — General color bluish 

 ash-gray. Head blackish inferiorly, alternating buff aud black superiorly. 

 Collar yellowish to buff, with black and brown lines surmounting, gray at tip. 

 Thoracic disc nearly concolorous, very slightly darker in shade than the lighter 

 portions of the primaries. Primaries with blackish strigse and with the veins 

 narrowly black marked. A dusky shade of variable distinctness along the in- 

 ternal margin, not extending to the hind angle. A brownish or smoky shade 

 extends along the costa to the terminal space and invades the cell between the 

 ordinary spots. A pale, slightly pinkish shade extends beyond the reniform to 

 the s. t. line, contrasted outwardly by a black streak above vein 5. Two trian- 

 gular dusky shades are in the terminal space and the fringes are dusky. The 

 transverse lines are incomplete and partly obsolete. The basal line is faintly 

 indicated on the costa only. The t. a. line is indicated by geminate dusky 

 streaks on the costa, by a geminate, diffuse lunule in the cell, and by an oblique 

 blackish streak below the submedian vein. The t. p. line is faintly marked over 

 the costal region only. The s. t. lin.? marks the extent of the dusky costal shade, 

 is visible again at the end of the black streak above vein .5, and again, very 

 vaguely towards the internal margin. The claviform is wanting. The orbicular 

 is oval, upright, concolorous, geminately black ringed, the inner ring less definite 

 aud with a brownish shade. The reniform is large, upright, centrally cotistricted, 

 outwardly dilated superiorly. It is narrowly black margined inwardly, brown 

 marked outwardly and centrally with a pale discal blotch. Secondaries smoky, 

 with a darker line at the base of the fringes. Beneath smoky, with a reddish 

 shade, the veins black powdered, both pairs with a discal spot, less evident on 

 the primaries, and with a series of terminal black lunules. Secondaries also with 

 an outer brown line. Expands 50 mm. ; 2 inches. 



Hah. — Colorado, Bruce. 



This species most nearly resembles some forms of cineritia, a rather 

 pale form of which occurs in Colorado, and as such I was at first 



