132 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



Tseiiioeaiiipa saleppa u. sp. 



Ground color red-brown. Head and collar paler, more yellowish or rusty; 

 dorsum uniform dark red-brown. Primaries varying from an even dark red- 

 brown to a mottled powdery dark brown over a yellowish-brown base. Median 

 lines usually obscured and broken by the mottlings, but in a uniformly colored 

 example all the lines are completely defined. Basal line brown, obscurely gemi- 

 nate, marked only in costal region. T. a. line single, rusty-brown, nearly even 

 and only a little outwardly oblique. T. p. line single, a little crenulated, with an 

 even outcurve over the cell and a deep incurve below, so that the space between 

 the median lines on inner margin is very narrow. S. t. line pale, very nearly 

 parallel with outer margin, usually indicated by the difference between the paler 

 terminal and darker s. t. space ; but when there is no such diiFerence then by an 

 indefined line of the palest ground. A series of blackish veuular dots before the 

 margin. A very narrow crenulate blackish marginal line, followed by a pale line 

 at base of fringes. Margin a little scalloped. Claviform wanting. Orbicular of 

 good size, oblique, a little or no paler than ground color, defined by blackish 

 scales, tending to become open to costa and to unite with the reniform inferiorly, 

 the union becoming complete in some cases. Reniform moderate in size, kidney- 

 shaped, outlined by a narrow pale ring, uniformly darker tlian the ground, but 

 not contrasting. Secondaries smoky, with coppery-brown powderings, with a 

 blackish discal spot and a blackish terminal line. Beneath : rusty-yellowish, 

 with coppery-brown powderings, all wings with a large blackish discal spot, a 

 crenulated terminal line and an obscure extra-median line, which is best marked 

 on the costa. 



Expands 1.40-1.56 inches ^ 35-39 mm. 



Hab. — British Columbia; Wellington, April 12tli, 14th; J. Bay, 

 Victoria, August 17th. 



Four males and one female in fair or good condition, the Welling- 

 ton examples from W. J. Bryant. The species is allied to prases, 

 and while no two examples of either species are alike, there is no 

 chance of confounding the two. 



The male antennae are seri'ate and bristle tufted, and the species 

 would be referred by Hampson to his Perigrapha, Section III, as an 

 ally of pr(eses and transparens, with which it also agrees in wing 

 form and thoracic tufting. 



Orthopia sirauiinea n. sp. 



Head, thorax and primaries dull straw-yellow ; abdomen and secondaries uni- 

 form smoky. Maculation of primaries a little more brownish, the lines not re- 

 lieved, incomplete, the space beyond the t. p. line smoky, relieving the pale some- 

 what irregular s. t. line. Basal line single, obscurely indicated. T. a. line very 

 faint, single, with outward angulations in the interspaces. T. p. line slender, 

 broken, irregular, followed by small venular black dotlets. The veins are some- 

 what darker through the terminal space, and there is a series of interspaceal ter- 

 minal lunules. Orbicular of good size, nearly round, concolorous, ringed with 

 brownish. Reniform large, centrally a little constricted, brownish ringed, black- 



