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Four males and two females, in fair to good condition, and all the 

 males decidedly smaller than either of the females. Though the 

 specimens are all in good condition so far as primaries are concerned, 

 three of them have been papered, and the others have the abdomen 

 greasy or rubbed so that the character of the tufting is obscured. It 

 seems probable that the patagia are a little uplifted, that there is a 

 somewhat prominent posterior tuft on the thorax, and that there is 

 a series of little abdominal tufts, at any rate in the male. The fron- 

 tal process is long, longer in the male, flattened above, the tip a little 

 eraarginate so as to leave two prominent points, the process becom- 

 ing transversely compressed inferiorly, so that at tip, when seen from 

 the front, it looks almost T-shaped, with the ends prominently pro- 

 duced. 



Oxyciiemis baboqiiavaria n. sp. 



Ground color light ashen-gray, dusted and shaded with smoky brown, the 

 maeulation black, female darker than the male. Head and thorax uniformly 

 mottled with gray and brown, the posterior thoracic tuft metallic-bronze tipped, 

 conspicuous. Primaries with the usual markings evident, neatly written. Basal 

 line single, black, distinct, extending to the middle of the wing. T. a. line up- 

 right or nearly so, rigid, or with only a little outward angulation at the middle, 

 black, preceded by whitish scales. T. p. line single, black, outwardly shaded 

 with white scales, inwardly oblique from costa not far from apex to vein 3, thence 

 with a decided incurve to vein 1. S. t. line obscurely indicated by a slight diifer- 

 ence in shade between the s. t. and terminal spaces. A continuous narrow black 

 terminal line. Fringes of the ground color, obscurely cut with smoky brown. 

 Claviform large, loop-like, extending half-way across the cell, narrowly outlined 

 in black, with a whitish line within ; else concolorous. Orbicular round or 

 broadly oval, of good size, black and white ringed, usually paler than ground. 

 Eeniform large, broadly lunate, oblique, narrowly outlined in black within which 

 is a whitish ring in the female and a whitish filling in the male. A whitish 

 shading in the cell from t. a. line extends outward to the costa at t. p. line; a 

 somewhat darker shading fills the middle of the median space ; a decidedly darker 

 shade extends obliquely inward from within apex to the middle of the wing, best 

 marked below the apical region. Secondaries pale smoky in the male, darker 

 and more uniform in the female, fringes white; in the'^an obscure extra-median 

 line. Beneath : primaries smoky, secondaries whitish, powdery, with an obscure 

 outer line and discal lunule. 



Expands .92 ( % )-1.05 ( ^ ) inch = 23-26 mm. 



Hab. — Baboquavaria Mts., Pima County, Arizona, July 15th to 

 30th, 1903, O. C. Poling. 



Two males and two females, in good condition. The males, be- 

 sides being the smaller, are also lighter in color and more contrast- 

 ingly marked, the basal space distinctly white powdered. The 



TEANS. AM. KNT. SOC. XXXIII. (18) MAY, 1907. 



