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whitish, with a sharp inward tooth opposite the hind angle. There is no 

 obvious claviform. Orbicular consists of a sagittate blackish mark. Reni- 

 form a small blackish lunula in a yellowish indefined blotch. A narrow 

 black streak at base ; all the veins marked with black or blackish ; a series of 

 interspaceal black streaks in the terminal area. Secondaries soiled whitish, 

 all the veins conspicuously smoky ; a dusky outer border which, in the female, 

 tends to become rather definite ; an obscure discal lunule. Beneath whitish, 

 powdery, with an extra-median dusky line and a small discal spot on all 

 wings. 



Expands, 1-1.12 inches ^ 25-28 mm. 



Habitat. — Deming, New Mexico, Sept. 1-7. 



One male, one female from Dr. Barnes, the female in good, the 

 male in only fair condition. The female is also the best marked 

 of the two and has served as the base for the description. The 

 species is a chunky one and belongs with ciliata in general habitus. 



Oncocnemis sanina, new species. 



Resembles Icvis in general appearance, but smaller, less definitely marked 

 throughout, the secondaries not so decidedly yellowish in tinge. The collar 

 has a distinct, narrow black cross line ; but lacks the double line below the 

 tip. The claviform is less definite, smaller, less acute and does not in any 

 case extend across the median space or touch the t. p. line. The ordinary 

 spots are less well defined and tend to become pale, blotchy in appearance. 

 The interspaceal dark marks before and after the s. t. line are not clear cut 

 but dififuse, and the rayed appearance through the terminal area is not 

 nearly so well marked. 



Expands, 1.12-1.20 inches ^ 28-30 mm. 



Habitat. — Gunnison, Colo., July 9. 



One male, four females, in fair condition only. Has been asso- 

 ciated with Icvis in my collection; but always with a query. The 

 material at hand is now sufficient to convince me that we have a dis- 

 tinct form to deal with. 



Oncocnemis nita, new species. 



Ground color dull ashen gray over luteous, mottled and powdery. Head 

 and thorax without definite markings. Primaries with all the transverse 

 maculation present, but broken and indefined. Basal line single, black, broken, 

 obscure. T. a. line geminate, blackish, broken, a little irregular and tending 

 to outwardly oblique. T. p. line more obvious, acutely projected over the 

 reniform, very oblique and a little incurved below. The inner edge is marked 

 by black scales, beyond which a rusty yellowish shading merges diffusely into 

 the s. t. space. S. t. line yellowish or whitish, irregular, diffuse, extending 

 to outer margin of veins 3 and 4, preceded by irregular black marks in the 

 interspaces. A series of black terminal lunules. Fringes whitish. Clavi- 



