196 PROCEEDINGS S)F THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vm. xxv. 



^r/>«7/.sr.— 1.30 to 1.4:5 inches (32 to 36 nun,). 



Hahltat. — Texas in March; Florida; Alabama. 



Eight examples are at hand just now, all very much alike. P^xcept 

 for two examples from San Antonio, they have State labels only, and 

 not one has a date of capture. One female has a marked reddish tinge 

 in the ground and the secondaries are almost uniformly smoky. The 

 Florida example is more obviously streaked than the others, but ditt'ers 

 in no further point. 



The ornamentation of the collar is the most characteristic feature 

 of the species, and this tends to getting in red or scarlet in addition to 

 or place of the black. 



LEUCANIA MULTILINEA Walker. 



Lemanla mulHUnea Walker, C. B., Mus., Het., IX, 1856, p. 97. 

 Leucania cominoides Grotk, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1875, p. 419. 

 Heliophila Inpidaria Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1875, p. 419.— Smith, Bull. 

 44, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1893, p. 187, pr. syn. 



Ground color creamy yellow. Head immaculate. Thorax with 

 three gray or blackish transverse lines, the upper one broadest. Disk 

 of thorax and patagise a little black speckled. Primaries with veins 

 white or whitish, the strigations in the interspaces dark and well 

 marked. Median vein white, inferiorly margined by black or brown 

 to the end. A black dot in the white area at end of vein. A smoky 

 shade bases on ^'ein 4: and broadens toward the apex, which it reaches 

 on outer margin. A dusky shading over the subcostal region and 

 another parallel with and close to inner margin. Transverse posterior 

 line reduced to two dots. A series of small black terminal dots. 

 Secondaries white, with small black terminal dots. Beneath, prima- 

 ries faintly yellowish, the disk more or less blackish, veins more or less 

 black marked; secondaries somewhat yellowish and powdery along the 

 costa. 



Ex'pami'. — 1.3(1 to 1.40 inches (32 to 35 mm.). 



Ilahltat. — Miami, Palm Beach, Florida (Dyar); Harris County, 

 Texas, August 10 (Barnes); Kansas (tSnow); Albany, New York, June 

 and July; Winnipeg, Manitoba (Haiiham). 



A series of thirteen examples shows little variation, and among the 

 strigate rather obtuse^ winged forms the pure white secondaries of 

 both sexes make this easily separable. The onlv species with which 

 it is likely to be confounded is jmiclcola. and that can be very easily 

 determined if the material is at all good. 



LEUCANIA COMMOIDES Guenee. 



Li'Hcdiiia ronuDoide.s Gcenee, Spec. Geu., Noct., I, 1852, ji. 8(1. — W.-vlker, C. B., 

 ]\lu8., Het., IX, 1856, p. 96.— Spever, Stett. Ent. Zeit., XXXVI, 1875, p. ll."?. 



Ground color dull grayish luteous, more or less brightened by red 

 or brown. Head tends to rusty brown. Collar with three leaden 



