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smoky brown with an olivaceous tinge or overlay, median space yellowish or whitish, 

 terminal space a little paler to the yellowish fringes. The solid brown basal area is 

 outwardly bounded by the outcurved t. a. line which is pale like the median space. 

 T. p. line is also pale, only a little sinuate and separates the pale median space from 

 the solid brown s. t. space. S. t. line whitish, diffuse, broad, very close to the outer 

 margin. The large reniform is of the darker color and fills a large portion of the 

 upper portion of the median space. Secondaries black, with traces of a tawny 

 median band in most specimens. Beneath, primaries black except apex, median 

 space and fringes, which are yellowish ; a large black spot in the median pale area ; 

 secondaries black except along costa and an incomplete, interrupted median band. 



Expands. — .68-72 inch = 17-18 mm. 



Habitat. — Aweme, Man., July 21, Mr. Criddle ; Roundthwaite, 

 Man., Marmont. 



Three males and four females, all in at least fair condition. Two 

 pairs are from Aweme, one male is from Roundthwaite and two females, 

 dated July 27, have no locality label. The species is allied to viilosa, 

 than which it is smaller, stouter, with the secondaries almost solidly 

 black. 



Melicleptria subatra, new species. 



Head and body black ; vestiture thin, olivaceous yellow, slightly tinting the 

 head, thorax and terminal segments of abdomen. Primaries smoky to blackish with 

 an obscure carmine tinge. Median space yellowish or whitish, costa and inner margin 

 of the smoky ground, reniform very large, blackish, combining with the costal and 

 marginal shadings to break the pale area in the three more or less connected blotches. 

 S. t. line distinct, yellowish, outwardly diffuse, a little sinuated, fringes whitish. 

 Secondaries black or a little bronzed, with a whitish or yellowish median band which 

 is completely divided by the large blackish discal spot. Fringes whitish. Beneath, 

 primaries creamy yellowish, upper half of base and all beyond t. p. line except apex 

 blackish, a large, constricted discal spot also black. Secondaries creamy yellowish, 

 inner margin and a discal spot black. 



Expands. — .80-. 90 inch = 20-22 mm. 



Habitat. — Mt. Rainier, Wash. ; Gallatin Co., Mont., elevation 

 9,400 feet, July 10. 



Two males and one female in tolerably good condition ; one male 

 and one female numbered 631 of the Washington Experiment Sta- 

 tion. In type of maculation this resembles sueta = californica ; but 

 it is much smaller, lacks all the carmine shadings and is altogether a 

 more sordid form. 

 Melicleptria triolata, new species. 



Head, thorax and abdomen black, clothed with thin, divergent whitish hair. 

 The thorax is scarcely more heavily clothed than the remainder of the body and the 

 whole impression is of a thin fleecy covering. Primaries with base, s. t. and terminal 



