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above the line which runs throufih this space from the base of the wing. The 

 ordinary spots are vaguely indicated. Between the tooth of the t. a. line and the 

 lunnle of the t. p. line in the submediau interspace there is an indefinite whitish 

 blotch. Secondaries white, semi-transparent, and with a vague, irregular smoky 

 outer border. Beneath, the primaries are powdery mouse-gray, the secondaries 

 whitish, powdery, with a distinct black streak thiough the median cell from the 

 liase to the cross-vein. Expands 44 mm. ; 1.76 inches. 



Hab. — Victoria, British Columbia. 



A single male specimen in Mr. Neumoegen's collection is the type, 

 and from it the figui'e was made. The species is a strongly marked 

 one, and should not be difficult of recognition. 



Cucullia albida n. sp. (PI. iv, fig. 9} — Ground color white, with a very 

 faint yellowish tinge. Palpi smoky at sides; vertex smoky, collar smoky at 

 base, limited by a black line; half way to the tip is a narrow smoky Hue, and 

 the tip is rather broadly margined by a smoky shade. Thoracic disc and the 

 dorsal tufts of the abdomen smoky. Primaries with the veins smoky or blackish, 

 the transverse lines obsolete, marked only below the internal vein and by in- 

 definite costal shades. ^. black longitudinal line at base, and beyond it a clearer 

 white elongate spot, like a claviform ; but without defining line. A series of 

 rather broad interspaceal dashes at outer margin, and the fringes cut with smoky. 

 Se(!ondaries whitish with a faint smoky tinge, the veins darker, the fringes 

 white. Beneath, white with gray powdering; secondaries with a short, blackish, 

 basal dash in the cell, extending nearly to a discal lunule. Expands 40.5 mm. ; 

 \.Gz inches. 



Hab. — Colorado ; Bruce, No. 538. 



A single male s{)ecimen, somewhat rubbed. The antennae have 

 the joints distinctly, if not strongly, serrate; the serrations conic, 

 and furnished with bristly tufts. The thoracic clothing is somewhat 

 more loose than usual, and the body is more robust. This is totally 

 unlike any other of our species, and is hence easily recognized. 



<;OPI€UCUL,L.IA n. gen. 



Has in all respects the habitus of Cucullia, differing primarily in 

 the presence of a long, curved claw at the end of the fore tibia. The 

 front bulges, is roughened in one species, furnished with a distinct 

 protuberance in another, and is almost smooth in a third. The type 

 of iiiaculation is essentially that of Cucullia. 



This generic term replaces Cleophana as used by Mr. Grote for 

 our species eidepis and antipoda. The European species of Cleo- 

 phana, an opportunity to examine which I owe to Mr. Neumoegen, 

 differ very materially from the two American species above referred 

 to in habitus, in wing form, in having very little resemblance to 

 Cucullia, and in some details of structure. 



