286 Journal New York Entomological Society. tVoi. xx. 



Macaria puertata, new species. 



Expanse, 16-22 mm. Head, body and wings pale yellowish-gray overlaid 

 with darker grayish-brown scales with an almost imperceptible pinkish cast. 

 Two broad dark brown lines cross the primaries. The first one third out 

 becomes evident in the cell and thence runs obliquely inward in a slight curve. 

 The second less than two thirds out is sinuous, distinct on the costa but 

 becoming very narrow a little below; on vein Mj a sharp angle is formed and 

 thence it becomes heavier to inner margin. Discal spot a large diffuse spot or 

 ring. Outer area more deeply shaded than inner or median areas, the outer 

 half being more tinged with pinkish and paler than the inner half. Terminal 

 line brown, broken, externally edged with whitish. Secondaries similar to 

 primaries but usually more mottled with the overlaying color. The inner line 

 is indistinct or absent; the outer line usually heavy and more or less sharply 

 angled at middle. Discal spot absent or distinct. Outer area and terminal 

 line as in primaries. Beneath, whitish specked with brown except outer 

 area which is a quite uniform pale brown. Markings of above showing through 

 but much paler. Discal spots large, distinct. 



Described from ten males and four females received from Mr. 

 Geo. H. Field. Types in the American Museum of Natural History; 

 cotypes with Mr. Field'. 



Habitat. — La Puerta Valley, California, July ii, San Diego, Cali- 

 fornia, July 31 and August i. 



Allied to Macaria infimata Gn., but with the cross lines much 

 heavier and less angular. In infimata these lines are only rarely defined 

 and usually tend to break up into dots while in the presnt species they 

 are always present and exceptionally broad. A poor specimen clearly 

 attributable to this species is in the Henry Edwards collection from 

 Nebraska. It has not been made a type. 

 Anthelia nigroseriata Pack, and A. taylorata Hulst. 



In 1873^ Packard described Tephrosia nigroseriata from two males 

 taken in California by Edwards. The species is well diagnosed and 

 there is no mistaking the particular form the author had before him. 

 In 1876^ he describes and figures on Plate IX, Fig. 60, under the name 

 Lozogramma nigroseriata a different much larger insect from Vic- 

 toria, Vancouver Island (Crotch), and Sanzalito, California, refer- 

 ring in his remarks following the description to the California speci- 

 mens (those of Edwards' included, presumably) as being smaller and 

 differing so much at first sight as to be taken for another species. 



^ Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XVI, p. 32. 

 ^ Monograph Geometrid Moths, p. 246. 



