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third, broadens there, but narrows again so as to leave the apex clear. 

 Below the median vein, which is paler and may be white, the carmine 

 fills half the submedian interspace to vein 2, and all the space between 

 veins 2 and 3. Veins 3 and 4 are pale, and the space between them is 

 usuall}" more or less completely pale; but it may be entirely reddish. 

 Above vein 4 a carmine shade begins at the end, of the cell as a point 

 and broadens out so as to reach the outer margin below the apex. No 

 black points or dots on any of the specimens before me. Secondaries 

 white, sometimes with the margins a little soiled. Beneath white, 

 primaries with a pinkish or yellowish shade. Head with a rusty yellow 

 shading in front and sometimes with a rusty line above the antennae. 

 Collar of the palest ground color iuferiorly, rusty above and on the 

 disk behind the collar. The front of the breast is also rust}" or reddish. 



Expanse. — 1.34 to 1.50 inches (34 to 38 mm.). 



Habitat. — Texas in August; Kansas City, Missouri, in August (Hall). 



Six examples are under examination, and I have seen others. The 

 species must be locally and seasonally common, for Belfrage seemed 

 to have taken it in numbers; but since his time very few examples 

 have found their way into collections. In 1898 Mr. F. J. Hall, by 

 taking the species near Kansas City, Missouri, extended its known 

 distribution materially; but I have no data as to how frequently it is 

 captured there. 



There is little observed variation, and the insect is altogether so 

 well marked that no difficulty will be found in identifying it. 



LEUCANIA ALBILINEA Hiibner. 



Leucania albilinea Hubner, Zutraege, Ex. Schmett, 1816, p. 25, No. 169, figs. 337, 

 338; Verzeichuiss, 1816, p. 241.— Guenee, Spec. Gen., Noct., I, 1852, p. 89.— 

 Walker, C. B., Mus., Het., IX, 1856, p. 99.— Riley, 9th Eept. Ins. Mo., 

 1877, p. 50, figs. 14, 15, all stages.— G rote, Can. Ent., XII, 1880, p. 116. 



Leucania Jiar veyi Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., I, 1873, p. 9, pi. i, fig. 14. — 

 Harvey, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., HI, 1876, p. 8.— Grote, Can. Ent., XII, 

 1880, p. 116, an sp. dist.— Smith, Bull. 44, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1893, p. 186, pr. 

 syn. 



Ground color a dirty luteous, more or less smoky, varying in depth . 

 The head tends to become rusty yellow in front. Collar whitish infe- 

 riorily, the paler shade crossed by a narrow brown line. A black or 

 brown line surmounts the whitish area and shades into the ground 

 color at tip. Patagi« with a more or less obvious white line and the 

 disk behind the collar a little white. Primaries with the brightest 

 pale color extending from base through the cell to the apex. A simi- 

 lar, more irregular area of bright shade extends along the inner 

 margin. Costal area from base nearl}" to apex gray, or brown streaked, 

 not contrasting, but in contrast to the even lighter shade below it. 

 Median vein white or at least pale, the light shade continued on veins 

 3 and 4 to the margin; not unusually the interspace between these 

 veins is paler than the area above or below. A brown shading below 



