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comes diffuse inwardly. It shows a tendency to lireak up into spots, especially to- 

 ward the inner margin. There' is a series of small terminal smoky lunules, and a yel- 

 lowish line is at the base of the fringes. The claviform is small, black marked, and 

 does not extend across the median space though this is very narrow. The ordinary 

 spots are very imperfectly marked ; the orbicular varying in shape, sometimes with a 

 smoky center, sometimes entirely gray : the reniform upright or nearly so, not com- 

 pletely outlined in any specimen before me. As a whole the median shade is the 

 darkest part of the wing and between the ordinary spot the shade is deepest of all, so 

 that we have the appearance of a dusky median shade. Secondaries evenly smoky. 

 Beneath smoky, powdery, with more or less obvious outer line and discal lunule. 

 Expanse, I.25-1.40 inches ^31-35 mm. 



Habitat: Garfield County, Colo., 6,000 feet (Bruce). 



Three female specimens are before me, two of them from the 

 U. S. National Museum, and each different from the other. The 

 markings are all obscured by the powdering, but as a whole the species 

 very much resembles conjiigata in color and wing form. It differs, 

 however, by having a very strong s. t. line and by lacking the promi- 

 nent claviform connecting the median lines in the other species. There 

 is also considerable difference in the markings of the head and thorax, 

 so that there does not seem to be any likelihood that the species will 

 prove to be the same, though they are, I think, close allies. 



Scotogramma megEcra, sp. nov. 



Clrouiul color a powdery pale yellowish gray ; body parts without markings. Pri- 

 maries with all the ornamentation present ; but very obscure and difficult to make out. 

 The wings are almost uniformly powdered and the lines are scarcely darker than the 

 powderings. The basal line is very vaguely indicated. T. a. line almost upright, 

 geminate on the costa, with three strong outward angulations. T. p. line lunulate, 

 evenly bent over the cell and then almost parallel with the outer margin. There is a 

 vague paler shading that indicates an s. t. line, and a series of minute dusky terminal 

 lunules, followed by dusky streaks across the fringes ; also a vague trace of a median 

 shade. The orbicular is absent in one specimen, marked by a dusky outline in an- 

 other. The reniform is narrow, dusky, upright, hardly defined. Secondaries whitish 

 at the base, becoming smoky outwardly, the fringes again being whitish. The veins 

 are dark marked and there is a small discal lunule. Beneath the wings are whitish, 

 a little powdered, becoming a little darker outwardly. Primaries with a discal lunule. 

 Secondaries with a small dot. Expanse, 1. 40 to 1. 45 inches ^ 35 to 36 mm. 



Habitat: Glenwood Springs, Colorado in July. 



Dr. Barnes has sent me two specimens, male and female. The 

 new species resembles siibmarina and deusa, but is larger and paler 

 than either. It is perhaps nearest to the former, but the markings are 

 much less evident and the peculiar yellowish tinge is quite different 

 from anything that I have ever seen in other specimens. The vesti- 

 ture consists of flattened scales. 



