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or idahoensis ; differing from these in the pale rays crossing the s. t. 

 line, and from the other species in the strong costal contrast accom- 

 panied by the obscuring of the transverse maculation. There is quite 

 a variation in color, but the specific habitus is so well marked that this 

 is not confusing. 

 Carneades focinus, sp. nov. 



(irouiul color aslien gray, varying somewhat in tint, but never very dark. Head 

 concolorous or paler, sometimes rusty brown, with or without a black line below the 

 antenna". Collar with a blackish transverse line across the middle, above which fol- 

 low a pale gray and a paler band at tip ; and below which the color is usually more 

 or less rusty, often forming a pale spot at the base of the primaries. Thoracic tuft- 

 ings often gray-tipped, and sometimes the center of disc may be gray. Primaries 

 with all the maculation present, well defined, the ordinary spots large and a little 

 contrasting. At base and through lower half of wing generally, the gray shade pre- 

 dominates : through the cell and in the upper half of w-ing a brown shade obtains 

 which may change to blackish between the ordinary spots. The terminal space is 

 the darkest portion of the wing. ]5asal line geminate, black, a little bent on the sub- 

 costal, sometimes a little shaded outwardly so as to give the appearance of a basal 

 dash. T. a. line geminate, blackish, a little outcurved in the interspaces, as a whole 

 somewhat oblique outwardly. T. p. line geminate, smoky, the outer portion equal, 

 the inner lunulate or even crenulate, as a whole well removed from the base, broadly 

 outcurved and rather even below that. S. t. line pale, irregular, preceded by sagit- 

 tate black spots and else marked by the dark terminal space. A median shade runs 

 oblicjuely between the ordinary spots, darkening the reniform and then running close 

 to t. p. line. There is a series of black terminal lunules, and the fringes are inter- 

 lined with smoky. The claviform is spiall, concolorous, smoky ringed. Orbicular 

 large, oval, oblique, margined in blackish, gray-filled, sometimes not closed supe- 

 riorly. Reniform large, kidney shaped, gray, the lateral margins marked with yel- 

 lowish scales, the upper and lower margins sometimes obscured. Secondaries pale 

 yellowish, becoming smoky outwardly to the whitish fringes : darker in the female. 

 Beneath whitish, powdery, disk of primaries tending to smoky and in the female, 

 more or less completely smoky. On both wings an outer dark line, and on secon- 

 daries a small, dark, discal spot. Expands I.24-1.48 inches = 31-37 mm. 



Habitat : Calgary, Canada ; Pullman, Washington ; Glen wood 

 Springs, Colorado ; Truckee and Sierra Nevada, California : June, 

 July and August. 



This is a common species represented in my collection by good 

 series of both sexes. It is the species that 1 have mistaken for fri- 

 abilis in collections and have so named for correspondents. A re- 

 examination of the type oi friabilis in the British Museum made it 

 clear that this form would have to receive a new name. It is an ally 

 of tessellata but grayer and narrower winged, with larger ordinary 

 spots. 



