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space is mostly tawny and the diffuse s. t. line is of the same tint. Basal line 

 single, distinct, pale. T. a. line broad, tawny, edged with black and brown scales, 

 its course an almost even outcurve, a trifle broken on the median vein. T. p. line 

 dirty whitish, with almost a rectangle on vein 5, and running inwardly oblique and a 

 little incurved below. S. t. line very irregular, so deeply indented opposite the cell 

 that the s. t. space is nearly cut. Terminal space narrow, smoky, with a darker 

 brown terminal line. Median space marked with dull brown inferiorly. Ordinary 

 spots very large, dull brown, almost completely filling the cell. Secondaries tawny 

 with a large black discal spot and a broad marginal band in which there is a tawny 

 outer line near the angle. Beneath, primaries very pale tawny, discal spots of upper 

 side distinctly, other maculation more faintly reproduced ; secondaries with a de- 

 cidedly coppery red tinge ; a large black discal spot and a diffuse submarginal shade 

 toward anal angle. 



Expands. — .92 inch = 23 mm. 



Habitat. — Yellowstone Park, Wyo., in July ; Burrison, collector, 



One female in good condition, save that the antenna? are wanting ; 

 received through Mr. W. D. Kearfott. The species is so utterly un- 

 like any other species heretofore referred to the genus that there should 

 be no difficulty in identifying it. 

 Melicleptria flavidenta, new species. 



Head, thorax and abdomen black, clothed with olivaceous yellow hair, most 

 dense on thorax and at the tip of the abdomen. Primaries with a carmine shading in 

 basal and s. t. spaces ; median space prevailing yellowish ; s. t. space and extreme 

 base olivaceous. The t. a. line makes a very marked and characteristic inward tooth 

 on the median cell and thus relieves the orbicular which would otherwise be absorbed 

 in the basal area as it is in sueta. T. p. line marked by the difference in shade be- 

 tween median and s. t. space, sharply defined, only a little sinuate. S. t. line not 

 marked : there is simply an olivaceous shade between the carmine red of the s. t. 

 and terminal spaces. Fringes pale olivaceous. The inner and inferior portion of 

 median space are tinted with olivaceous. Orbicular large, obtusely oval, carmine. 

 Reniform large, oblong, broad, angles rounded, outer margin a little indented at 

 middle, carmine shaded. Secondaries black, with olivaceous yellow fringes. Median 

 area yellowish, with a broad black discal spot which cuts the band and gives the 

 wing an appearance of being black with two yellowish median spots. Beneath, 

 body clothed with thin, yellow, divergent hair. Primaries, basal area black with a 

 yellow, sagittate central mark ; median area yellow with a large, black discal spot ; 

 s. t. space yellow from costa nearly to inner margin, this shade gradually narrowing 

 until it is entirely lost in the broad black band at inner angle. Secondaries, pale 

 yellow ; black at base ; median area with a large black discal spot. A narrow black 

 extra median line merging into a black band toward anal angle. 



Expands. — .92 inch = 23 mm. 

 Habitat. — Utah, July, 1900. 



One male from Dr. Barnes, in good condition. The species 

 looks, at first sight, like a small example of sueta ; but the character- 



