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fringes whitish with a rosy tinge. Beneath smoky with a rosy flush, powdery, disc 

 of primaries darker, with a more or less complete outer line and on secondaries a 

 small dusky lunule which may be altogether wanting. Expands 1. 32-1. 48 inches 

 =• 33-37 mm. 



Habitat: Winnipeg, Manitoba, August 16-24, A. W. Hanham. 



Eight examples, most of them in at least fair condition and only 

 one of them a female. The species resembles the eastern form in 

 general appearance and type of maculation ; but is decidedly smaller 

 throughout. The fringes are more even, with hardly a trace of scal- 

 loping, and there is no obvious median shade on the primaries. Add 

 to this a distinct difference in the genitalia of the male and the specific 

 separation proves inevitable. I have heretofore considered this as a 

 small form of the eastern species and have so named it for the north- 

 western collectors who have sent me material. 

 Anarta laerta, sp. nov. 



Head and thorax black, clothed with smoky brown divergent hair and scales form- 

 ing, in good examples, a distinct collar and obvious patagia. Collar and patagia paler 

 tipped. Abdomen black. Primaries smoky brown, a little powdery, somewhat paler 

 in the discal cell. Median lines single, black, obvious but not prominent. Basal 

 line dentate on the veins, accompanied by a narrow, preceding paler shade. T. a. 

 line rather evenly outcurved and scarcely oblique. T. p. line denticulate on the 

 veins, hardly lunate, outwardly bent over the cell and not much incurved below the 

 reniform. S. t. line pale, continuous or broken, preceded by obscure spots and shad- 

 ings, the terminal space darkenirtg to a blackish broken terminal line. Fringes paler 

 tipped. A dark median shade crosses the reniform and then runs parallel with and 

 close to the t. p. line. Claviform moderate or small, outlined in blackish and some- 

 times black filled. Orbicular round, variable in size, sometimes black-ringed only, 

 and sometimes a rather indefined round spot. Reniform large, blackish-brown, vary- 

 ing from a rounded oblong to kidney-shaped, sometimes centrally constricted from 

 both sides. Secondaries black along the inner and outer margins, the band broad, 

 inwardly diffuse from the inner margin, sharply limited from the outer margin to a 

 dirty white disc, which extends along the costal margin to base and is interrupted by 

 a large, black, lunate spot which leaves only a little of the white visible. Beneath, 

 the disc of both wings is whitish with a large, black, somewhat lunate spot. Toward 

 base the wings become blackish. The secondaries have a broad black outer border 

 through which there may or may not be a whitish shade line : the fringes whitish as 

 on the upper side. Primaries with a smaller black spot corresponding to the orbicular 

 and a black band corresponding in course to the t. p. line : beyond this the wing is 

 more smoky to the blackish fringes which are based by a broken black line. Expands 

 .88-1.08 inches ^ 22-27 ™m- 



Habitat: Silver Lake, Utah, July 13, Dr. Henry Skinner; Mt. 

 Rainier, Washington Exper. Sta. No. 633, Professor C. V. Piper. 

 Three male and two female examples in good condition. Two ot 



