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reaching it abruptly turning downward into dorsal margin. Like the basal 

 patch, it is transversely strigulated with nearly black lines and dots, A 

 narrow dark half fascia arises just below middle of outer margin, proceeds 

 obliquely inward towards costa at outer fourth, but terminates before 

 reaching it; it is widest and rounded on its upper end. Between this 

 short fascia and middle fascia, the narrow streak of lighter ground colour 

 is divided by a darker line. The pale ground colour between basal patch 

 and middle fascia, at apex and along outer half of costa is also strigulated 

 with darker gray shades and dots. The costa is marked as follows : In 

 basal patch with two dark dashes ; in ground colour before middle fascia 

 with four dark dashes ; in middle fascia, the margins of which are nearly 

 black, make two and between them a third dark dash ; beyond middle 

 fascia to apex are four paler ground colour oblique lines, each two divided 

 by a darker dash and each with a darker dash in its middle. The inner 

 pale-ground-colour line continues down to anal angle, the second and 

 third merge together below and outline the upper end of marginal semi- 

 fascia, and then continue around its outer edge to middle of outer 

 margin ; the fourth and outer pale line runs obliquely into outer margin 

 below apex and outlines the darker apical spot. Cilia with seven whitish 

 and seven dark gray spots, evenly spaced. Hind wing smoky fuscous, 

 paler along costa and basally. Cilia paler. Under side : Front wing 

 smoky fuscous, with whitish spots repeated from above along costa and 

 outer margin ; hind wing grayish fuscous, a shade darker at apex. 

 Abdomen gray above ; below and legs cinereous. 



One $ , Regina, VII., 20. Three ^ , Aweme, Man., VII., 24, to 

 VIII., 8 (Norman Criddle). One ^ , Chicago, 111., June (Jos. H. Read- 

 ing). Co-typeS) U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 8205, Mr. Willing's and my collec- 

 tions. 



I think this is the species that has been masquerading in our lists as 

 hartmanniana, Linn., and propose to drop the latter name from our 

 American list. I have a long series of hartmanniana from Europe, and a 

 very careful comparison leaves no doubt of their separate identity. In 

 hartjtiamiiana the central fascia is differently indented, there is a tendency 

 to its being entirely divided on cell by ground colour, leaving a conspicu- 

 ous dash half fascia from costa and a dark shade on dorsal margin ; there 



