AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA 215 



^hort fuscous linos one df which covers the ai'c ; secondaries have a 

 broad fuscous costal border, and a narrow edge of same color along 

 hind margin ; fringe concolored. 



Tender side of primaries a lighter shade, fuscous on inner margin. 

 Secondaries still paler, immaculate. 



From Arizona. Taken by Dr. Palmer, and in the collection of the 

 Agricultural Hepartnient. 



Heteropterus Procris, n. sp. 



Malr. — Expands .9 inch. Upper side bright, glossy honey yellow; 

 costal border 0^' secondaries fuscous near base; on disk of primaries 

 below cell, a straight black streak on a ridge raised above the surface ; 

 fringes fuscous at apex of primaries, otherwise yellowish. 



Under side of primaries nearly same shade as above, of secondaries 

 paler; at base of primaries a black patch not reaching costal edge, ex- 

 tending halfway along inner margin and projecting a short streak to- 

 wards the disk. 



Body above concolored, beneath whitish; palpi yellow white ; an- 

 tennae fuscous above, yellow below, club yellow. 



Female. — Same size. Upper side a shade darker than male ; the 

 nervules more or less fuscous, and secondaries much obscured by fus- 

 cous at base ; a black line along lower side of cell of primaries corres- 

 ponding to the stigma of the male; both wings edged by a fuscous 

 line. 



On under side of secondaries the yellow color only obtains next ab- 

 dominal margin; rest of wing yellow brown, with a pale, whitish, 

 streak running from base to middle of hind margin. 



From several specimens sent me by Mr. Gr. W. Belfrage, and taken 

 near Waco, Texas. 



IIesperia Tamenlnd, n. sp. 



Mole. — Expands 1.6 inch. Upper side dark brown with a purple 

 tint, disk of primaries crossed by a broad brown band, commencing on 

 costa a little beyond the middle from base, running back obli(juely 

 halfway to hin<l margin, then bending at a right angle and reaching 

 middle of inner margin: primaries also have a submarginal indistinct 

 macular band, a shade paler than the ground color. Secondaries black- 

 ish crossed near base and on disk by two rows of indistinct black 

 spots ; fringes black. 



Under side brown, tinted with purple, imniaculate : apex of prima- 

 ries greyish. 



