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are umber-brown, with an olivaceous slieen. The secondaries are 
yellowish at base, with a broad blackish outer margin. The tibial 
armature consists of two long inner and three shorter outer claws or 
spines, referring to constricta, brevis, errans and the small species near 
the foot of my series, with which this form has nothing in common. 
It is undoubtedly a good and quite remarkable species. 
I.<ygraiitliceeia roseitiiicta Harvey. 
1875 Bull. Bull’. Soc. N. Sci. ii, 278. 
Melicleptria exallata Hy. Eclw. 
1884 Papilio iv, 124. 
This species is now represented in the Museum collection by sev- 
eral specimens. It was not known to me in 1883, when I published 
my revision of the Heliothini, but was found in the Belfrage material 
which came to the Museum. Mr. Edwards kindly gave me a speci- 
men of his species, now also in the Museum, and this enabled me to 
make the above synonymical reference. 
The sjiecies has the structural features of Schinia lynx and its type 
of maculation, replacing the yellow by bright red throughout. 
]\Ir. Edwards’ species is not referred to in Mr. Giote’s list of 1890, 
nor, indeed, any of the following species: Anthcecia petnlcms Edw., 
Tamila arefacta Edw., Acopa pacijica Edw., Melicleptria septentrional is 
Edw., Heliothis siiavis Edw., — all described in 1884! 
]\Ir. Grote seems to think, as he said of Boisduval about twenty 
years ago, that no work has been done since his last descriptive 
papers. 
^icliiiiia sexplagirtts* m sp. — Head and thorax dark olivaceous greenish 
gray. Primaries pale, powdery greenish gray, basal space and costal and mar- 
ginal patches in s t. space dark, olivaceous, of the same tint as thorax. Basal 
line marked on costa only. T. a. line pale, well marked, forming a very even 
and regular outcurve. T. p. line even, i)ale, narrower than t. a. line, evenlj’ 
outcurved over the cell, and as evenly though less prominently incurved below. 
S. t. line pale, not so well mai-ked as the median lines, a little irregular and 
holding a middle between t. p. line and outer margin in course. A pale line at 
base of fringes, which are concolorous, interlined with pale. The s. t. space is 
slightly dai’Ker than ground color, except on costa and internal margin, where it 
is of the same color as the basal sjiace. A vague, dusky, median shade over the 
reniform, bringing this spot into view as an u])right dusky patch not definitely 
margined. There is a vague suggestion of an orbicular. Secondaries white, 
with a blackish discal lunule and outer margin, the latter with a white central 
shade, more prominent toward anal angle; fringes white. Beneath whitish, 
tinged with faint olivaceous, both wings with a narrow outer line; primaries 
with black, contrasting reniform and orbicular. Expands 1.04 inches; 26 mm. 
Hab. — Foot-hills near Denver, Col. (Bruce). 
