LEPIDOPTERA 



493 



Auarta lanuginosa sp. \\vt\ . 



Black and gray ; primaries with a mossy green shade through the 

 median space ; secondaries straw yello\v, with a broad bhick outer band 

 and a bhick discal lunule. Head black with an admixture of white, 

 especially prominent on the vertex. Collar gray tipped, above smoky 

 blackish. Patagia gray edged, black vestiture of thoracic disc gray 

 tipped posteriorly. Abdomen blackish, densely clothed with line, yel- 

 low hair, through which the black ground appears smoky. Primaries 

 with ornamentation well defmed, the markings broken or incomplete. 

 Basal space chiefly gi'ay. 15asal line black, single, curved toward the 

 base. A curved black mark in the submedian interspace, above which 

 are mossy scales. A black bar along the internal margin, beyond 

 which are mossy scales to the transverse anterior line. This line single, 

 broad, black, broken on the veins, only a little irregular, as a whole 

 outwardly oblique. Transverse posterior line single, consisting of a 

 series of black interspaceal lunules, a little drawn in below the cell. 

 Subterminal space smoky or blackish on the costa, the dark shade nar- 

 rowing abruptly and broken into black sagittate spots varying in size, 

 which precede a very even, whitish subterminal line. Fringes black, 

 tipped with white, cut with white on the veins, giving a neat, festooned 

 appearance. Claviform moderate, incompletely outlined in black, filled 

 w'ith paler green and followed by a paler, mossy shading. Orbicular 

 of moderate size, irregular, incompletely black margined, whitish, 

 with a mossy overlay, the whitish shade extending along the median 

 vein to the reniform. Reniform moderate in size, a little constricted, 

 black margined, not sharply defined, whitish filled, with a smoky cen- 

 tral shading. Secondaries ^vith yellow fringes. Beneath pale yellow, 

 wdth large black discal spots. Primaries with black subterminal band 

 shading into a smoky terminal space. Secondaries with a broad 

 marginal band ; fringes yellow. 



Expands 35 mm. = 1.40 inches. 



Habitat. — Popof Island, Alaska, July 12, 1S99. 



This is the best marked species known to me, equalling richardsoni 

 in size, with somewhat the same type of maculation. A single male 

 in very good condition. The antennas are distinctly serrated, the teeth 

 furnished with tufts of bristles, so the member becomes brush-like. 



Type. — Cat. no. 4845, U. S. National Museum. 



Anarta etacta Smith. 



One example, described by Professor Smith, at our request, as fol- 

 lows : 



Anarta etacta sp. nov. 



Head white with an admixture of smoky scales. Collar white in- 

 feriorly, then blackish, the tip gray. Patagia whitish, with a sub- 

 marginal blackish line, edges gray. Thoracic disc smoky. Primaries 

 dull gray, powdered with mossy green. The ordinary lines are white, 

 marked by geminate blackish spots on the costa and edged with black 



