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ANCYLIS GOODELLIANA Fernald. ''^ 



Ono malo, ]\Iay 7. 



ANCYLIS DIMINUATANA, new species. 



Head and thorax white, speckled with fuscous. Palpi white, tips 

 of scales above and two spots on outside fuscous. Antennje g-olden 

 Ijrown. Fore wing creani}^ white; a seal-brown shade from base, over 

 middle of wing to end of cell, thence to apex. The lower edge of this 

 brown shade is sharply- detined below, but diti'use and running into 

 ground color above. Its lower edge begins at base close to dorsal 

 margin and tends slightl^y upward to bevond middle of wing, thence 

 acutely upward in a nearly straight line into apex. The lower edge is 

 roundl}" indented twice on its inner half, where it turns up to apex and 

 opposite the outer margin. It is outlined outwardly })y a luteous- 

 gr'ayish line. This, opposite the ocellic spot, is succeeded by a light- 

 brown line, and beyond and defining the ocellic spot is a short 

 luteous-gray line. The ocellic spot is but a shade of brown. All the 

 >pace along the dorsal margin and before the outer margin below the 

 middle brown streak is ground color, overlain with gray and feirugi- 

 nous scales. The dorsal margin is dotted with lilack. Above the 

 brown shade on the inner half of costa is a streak of ground color, on 

 which are three black dots in a line on upper vein of cell. At middle 

 of costa a faint brown line runs ol^liquely into the brown shade; just 

 below the apex, six other pale-brown lines on costa, between it and 

 apex, start obliquely, but are all separated from the first bv a paler 

 line just below costa. These spots are separated by short gray or 

 leaden lines, one just before apex being the best defined, and it is 

 shaded on l)oth sides by whitish ])rown. Cilia white immediately 

 below apex, with a fuscous dot, l)elow light fuscous with ferruginous 

 tinge, preceded by a dark-brown line, and divided by a slightly darker 

 fuscous line. Hind wing smoky fuscous; cilia paler. Underside fore 

 wing smoky fuscous, wdiitish along costa, with a black apical dot and 

 dash of white in the cilia below it. Hind wing pale gray; cilia same. 

 Abdomen fuscous, anal tuft dull ocherous. Legs cream}" white, 

 washed with light brown on tarsi. Plxpanse 13.5 to 15 mm. 



Twelve specimens: Tryon, North Carolina, Ma}" 12, Fiske; Winchen- 

 den, Massachusetts, May 26 to June 2, F. A. Merrick; Plummers 

 Island, Maryland, and Washington, District of Columbia, May 19 to 

 flune 1, A. Busck; Kamapo, New York, May 27, Kearfott; Caldwell, 

 New Jersey, May 17-22, Kearfott; Wellington, British Columbia, 

 June and July 1, Doctor Taylor and Bryant; Denver, Colorado, 

 April 23, Oslar. 



Cotypes. — Cat. No. 8247, U. S. Nat. Mus., and in ray collection. 



In the National Museum there is a specimen of this species labeled 

 "diminuatana Wlsm.,"' ])ut I have not been able to find the name or a 



