AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 13 



Bather dark brick red ; reniform white, concolorous or yellowish ; secondaries 



reddish or smoky atlautica. 



Pale brick red, reniform yellowish ; secondaries yellowish or purplish red. 



pacifica. 



8. Reddish luteous, pale; all the lines obvious ; median shade prominent, angu- 



late juvenilis. 



9. Large, dull brown, broad winged; median space scarcely darker; t. p. line 



parallel with outer margin iminani*. 



Almost as large ; but pale luteous, the costa shaded with bright reddish, the 



outer third of median space olivaceous strameiitosa. 



Smaller, narrower winged, outer margin very oblique, as is also the t. p. line; 



pale red-brown, the median space darker obliqna. 



10. Median space deeper in shade; t. p. line very oblique, followed by a whitish 



shading 11 



Uniformly colored ; no white shade following t. p. line 12. 



11. Reddish to brownish luteous; the serrations of the antennae less prominent. 



medtalis. 

 Much paler, with a wash of white over a dull luteous ground ; serrations of 



the antennae strongly marked pallescens. 



P.'. Median lines narrow, hardly darker; t. p. irregular, geminate; ordinary 

 spots paler, more yellow senilis. 



13. Reddish luteous, the ordinary spots white serrata. 



14. Lemon yellow, mottled with red-brown basal ly and beyond the t. p. line: 



the latter not well denned ceriua. 



Colors straw yellow to red-brown and fawn gray 15. 



15. T. p. line geminate, even, with an even out curve, which forms the angle just 



above the middle of the wing; the median shade line narrow, denned 

 and parallel with the t. p. line 16. 



T. p. line sharply bent on the costa, forming the angle just below the sub 

 costal ; thence rather even and almost rigid to the inner margin 17. 



T. p. line geminate, quite evenly outcurve.d over the cell, not abruptly bent 

 on the. costa, the inner part of line more or less lunulated ; median shade 

 various 20. 



16. Size smaller, reniform obscure, rarely white marked ; orbicular round or oval ; 



claviform ovate, rarely white marked i nq nasi I ;t . 



Size large; reniform linear, white; orbicular and claviform also linear, up- 

 right and white in all specimens seen speciosissma. 



17. Bright straw yellow, the usual markings outlined in brown ; space beyond t 



p. line, save apex, brown rigitla. 



Yellowish to red-brown, powdery 18. 



Mouse gray, powdered with whitish atoms 19. 



1*. Inner part of t. p. line distinct, outer line not fasciate, all beyond it except 



apex brown, mottled liarrisii. 



As before, but the terminal space is coucolorous, leaving only the s. t. space 



hrowu verona. 



Inner part of t. p. line obsolete or feebly developed, outer line forming a dis- 

 tinct baud or fascia purpurifascia. 



lit. T. p. line well defined ; s. t. line always traceable, usually distinct. 



T. p. line angulate over cell, then inwardly oblique to hind margin. 



nilela. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXVI. MAY 1899. 



