4 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



darker red shade from apex to anal angle, enlarged at the middle of the wing, it 

 is continued as a red spot on dorsum before angle, above this in middle of wing 

 is a clear red spot and a less distinct cue above it on costa. Cilia gray, shaded 

 with ferruginous at apex. 



Hindwiug: grayish-fuscous, cilia same, divided by a slightly darker line close 

 to base ; underside the same, but cilia whiter. Underside forewings smoky fus- 

 cous, reddish at apex. 



Three specimens, Pasadena, Cal., April 14, W. G. Dietz; Ala- 

 meda Co., Cal., March; Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey Co., Cal., A. 

 H. Vachell. 



Evetria burkeana sp. nov. / ...... 



Expanse, % , 26-28 mm. ■ 



Head : with short tuft above eyes and between antennse, face flattened, small, 

 with thorax whitish-gray, thickly dotted with fuscous-brown ; "griseous." Eyes 

 jet black, with irregular lines of reddish-brown. Palpi, basal and second joint 

 with moderate flattened tuft above and below, increasing slightly in width to 

 end of second joint, same color as head ; third joint obtusely pointed, about half 

 length of second and not concealed by tufts of second, black, except base, which 

 is paler. Anteunje, basal joint enlarged, whitish, with a streak of black in front; 

 outer joints shortly ciliated below, pale fuscous, length about one-half. Abdomen 

 dark fuscous above and below, scales overlapping posterior edge of each segment 

 pale cinereous; a slight ridge of same color on each side, anal tufts same. Legs 

 whitish, first and second pairs rather heavily clouded with dark brown on 

 femora and tibiai, and all tarsi heavily annulate with brown. 



Forewing: white, with numerous transverse lines and fascite of gray-brown. 

 A broad fascia from costa to dorsum ; with its inner edge on costa at middle and 

 outer edge at three-quarters; on dorsum, inner edge at two-thirds and outer edge 

 at angle ; the inner edge is much indented below upper vein of cell by a rounded 

 prominence of white which nearly divides it; below this, above dorsum is a simi- 

 lar but less deep indentation ; the outer edge of fascia is nearly straight, but 

 much broken and indented. Before the fascia, to base, the surface is rather 

 evenly strigulated with black and white, with the following more prominent 

 markings ; below m'iddle on dorsum from inner third to inner sixth an irregular 

 dark blotch, its outer edge with two rounded projections (which are parallel to 

 corresponding indentation in fascia] ; between this blotch and fascia the color is 

 more white than black, making an illy-defined whitish fascia before the dark 

 one and at about equal width ; on costa, before dark fascia, are four geminated 

 white streaks, only the two outer ones (in whitish fascia) are well defined. Api- 

 cal fifth of wing above oceliic space grayish-brown, with a narrow line continu- 

 ing down to anal angle, between this and dark fascia is a narrow fascia of white, 

 strigulated with dark lines from costa to outer margin above angle. The apex is 

 dark, with a preciliate paler line; before apex the costa is marked with five 

 prominent black dots, the outer two of which are on outer white fascia and inner 

 three on middle dark fascia. Cilia blackish, interrupted by four white dots below 

 apex and three larger white dots around angle. The blackish lines and fascia 

 are, of the forewing, all more or less overlaid with gray, giving less the appear- 

 ance of black and white than of grayish-brown and white. 



Hindwiug: pale, smoky fuscous, cilia paler, with a darker then a lighter line. 



