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shaded with pink. Secondaries uniformly smoky blackish with pinkish white fringes. 

 Beneath, primaries blackish with pinkish white fringes secondaries with blackish disk 

 shading oft" to paler and pink at the margins. 



Expands. — .92-1.00 inch = 23-25 mm. 



Habitat. — Golden and Fort Collins, Colo., in June. 



Two males, one female ; one pair from Prof. C. P. Gillette, one 

 taken by myself at Golden. 



I had confused these with rosea, which is a larger species, more 

 deeply tinged and with less pink. The material in this series is not 

 abundant and the range of variation is not known ; it is quite prob- 

 able, however, that specimens with much less pink will be found and 

 there may be immaculate forms. 



Melicleptria antonio, new species. 



Head, thorax and abdomen black ; clothed with thin, divergent yellow and car- 

 mine hair on thorax, the terminal segments of abdomen yellow. Primaries carmine 

 at base and to the t. a. line, which extends inwardly oblique from two-fifths of costa 

 to one-third of inner margin : the line itself diffuse, whitish, median space yellowish 

 with a luteous tinge, shaded with carmine on the costal and inner margins ; s. t. 

 space very even, carmine near costal and inner margin, olivaceous brown between 

 these points. Terminal space testaceous except at anal angle, where the carmine 

 shading becomes marked. Fringes yellow. The orbicular is an obscure, diffuse 

 blotch. Secondaries black with a bronzed shading ; fringes white. Beneath, pri- 

 maries smoky black, the apical region of costa and apex carmine, fringes whitish ; 

 secondaries smoky black, costa carmine to apex which is yellowish, that color ex- 

 tending on fringes almost to the hind angle. 



Expands. — .55 inch = 14 mm. 



Habitat. — San Antonio, Tex., in April. 



A single male specimen in very fair condition from Dr. Barnes. 

 The species has the narrow wings and depressed costa of pulchripennis 

 and is the smallest species of the genus in our fauna. 



Melicleptria sabulosa, new species. 



Mead, thorax and abdomen black, more or less densely clothed with yellowish 

 white divergent hairs, which give the prevailing tint to the head, thorax, and termi- 

 nal segments of the abdomen. Primaries with the basal space yellowish, more or less 

 washed with carmine to the t. a. line which is diffuse, distinctly carmine, and is in- 

 wardly oblique from two fifths of the costa to one third of the inner margin. Median 

 space dull yellow, costal region smoky or carmine. T. p. line carmine, almost 

 parallel to outer margin, outwardly diffuse and merging through the s. t. space into a 

 broad, dull yellowish terminal space. Fringes carmine. There is a narrow, obscure, 

 upright reniform, without definite margins. Secondaries black, with whitish fringes; 

 in the male with a whitish median band, in the female without markings of any kind. 

 Beneath, primaries yellowish with blackish shadings along costa at base, and out- 



