JOHN B. SMITH, SC. D. 375 



The males show no apparent secondary sexual characters, and the 

 species is an easily I'ecognizable one by the features just above 

 emphasized. 



Pleonectyplera punitalis n. s)). 



Ground color a rusty reddish luteous, but ranging from smoky gray to almost 

 leather-brown. Head and collar sometimes leaden or ash-gray. Wings with an 

 irrorate or dusty appearance, giving the effect of a thin scaling. T. a line nar- 

 row, single, rusty brown or smoky, a little irregular and a little outeurved. T. 

 p. line rusty or smoky, narrow, obscure, followed by an equally narrow and even 

 less obvious pale line, oblique from costa at outer fourth to form an obtuse angle 

 on vein 7, thence inwardly oblique, a little irregular to inner margin beyotid 

 outer third. A vague but usually traceable median shade line extends through 

 nearly the middle of the median space, angulated like and nearly parallel 

 allel with the t. p. line. S. t. line punctiform, spots black or smoky, more or less 

 diffuse, sometimes with a few outer white scales, interspaceal and a little, sinuate 

 in the series. Orbicular a small dusky or blackish round dot. Eeniform dusky 

 or blackish, small, lunate, always obvious but never contrasting. Fringes con- 

 colorous, with sometimes a series of small rusty hinules at base. Secondaries 

 much like the primaries in color, but may be either lighter or darker. Usually 

 there is a traceable darker, narrow extra-median line and a small, vague discal 

 lunule. Beneath : more intensely reddish or leather-brown and more pow- 

 dery; usually with a trace of the maculation of upper side, sometimes almost 

 immaculate. Expands 1-1.20 inches 25-30 mm. 



Hab. — Arizona : Palmerlee, Cochise Co., Sept.; Huachuca Mts., 

 July 30th, August; Yavapai Co., July 19th; Hot Springs, New- 

 Mexico, 7000 feet, August; Durango, Colorado, July 8-16th. 



Five males and five females in fair condition, and I have seen 

 others in collections. The species was collected by Skinner, Hutson 

 and Schaeffer in recent years, and I found one example in the Hulst 

 collection from New Mexico. It has a general resemblance at first 

 sight to geometralis, and with that species I placed my first rubbed 

 examples. The differences, however, are obvious, especially in the 

 male, which lacks all the secondary characters of the older s])ecies. 



Pleonectyplera rectalis n. sp. 



Ground color light leather-brown or reddish over luteous, varying in tint. 

 Primaries without strong contrasts, the median lines only being obvious. T. a. 

 line upright, consisting of a narrow yellowish inner line and a broader, out- 

 wardly diffuse brown line which enlarges to a somewhat triangular mark on 

 costa. T. p. line forming a small and very even outcurve over cell and an almost 

 equal incurve below that point; consisting of a well-marked outer yellow line 

 and a slightly broader inner brown line which is a little enlarged on the costa. 

 S. t. line vaguely marked by a slightly darker shade, its course scarcely trace- 

 able, but apparently irregular and sinuate rather than angulate or dentate. A 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXXIII. DKCEMBER. 1907. 



