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touching costa, and lower ueaily to middle of wing, about as wide as deep, two 

 streaks of brown scales divide it in some specimens. There is a shade of dull 

 slate-blue before and below it, and a few scales of the color on its outer edge be- 

 neath costa. Between the slate-blue streak and dorsal margin the fascia is con- 

 tinued of light brown mixed with black. Below the inner half of slate-blue 

 scales is a pinkish-white patch on dorsum, and above it a light mottled brown 

 patch to costa, the three forming a paler fascia. Inside of this pale fascia the 

 basal area is mottled shades of brown, shaded outwardly with black below costa 

 and below middle. On the dorsum at base is a patch of slate-blue. In the outer 

 third white area there is a conspicuous spot above dorsum, inside the ocellic area, 

 of two or three shoi't vertical lines of brown and black, and a more or less dis- 

 tinct single line running up to middle of wing. There is a broken narrow band 

 of black and brown scales from costal spot before apex to termen below middle, 

 crossed on veins 6 and 7 by bluish lines ; in some specimens the bluish vein lines, 

 with the black interspaces at theii' outer ends closely resemble the rim and spokes 

 of a fifteen degree wheel segment. On the costa, in the whitish area, are four 

 large saffron spots ; the apical spot is black, edged with saffron. Oiling shining 

 dark blue, dusky at apex, whitish at anal angle, a fine whitish basal line preceded 

 by black terminal line. 



Hindwing: light coppery-brown, cilia whitish, underside gray, with a coppery 

 deflection. 



Underside forewing: smoky black, with large paler mottlings on costa and 

 outer end. 



Six specimens, Placer Co., Cal., May 1st, Vachell ; Cisco, Cal., 

 June 1st, Vachell ; San Luis Obispo, Cal., March, Vachell ; Colo- 

 rado, No. 2693, Gillette. 



Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus. and my collection. 



OlethreuteK reinoTaiia sp. nov. _— -«~ 



Expanse 17-21 mm. 



Head, palpi and antenna grayish-brown ; thorax gray, tips of tuft and patagia 

 pink; thorax, golden-gray tufts of long scales, on side whitish, anal tuft golden- 

 brown ; legs cream-white, banded and dusted with dark brown. 



Forewing: dark gray, mottled with a darker shade. The color of wing is 

 nearly a uniform gray, with all marking obsolete, with the eye can be seen a 

 faintly darker line from middle of costa to anal angle; with a lens there is a 

 darker shade at inner fourth of costa forming an inner fascia, entirely obsolete 

 below middle of wing, and along costa slightly darker costal spots separated by a 

 shade lighter gray. In the middle of wing before termen is a darker shade. 

 Cilia coucolorous. 



Hindwing: light smoky brown, cilia whitish, darker at apex, underside whit- 

 ish-brown, darker along termen and mottled below costa. 



Underside forewing: dark fuscous-gray, with large whitish geminate costal 

 spots. 



Four specimens. New Brighton, Pa., Aug. 21st, F. A. Merrick; 

 Algonquin, 111., June 25th, Dr. Nason ; Aweme, Man., Aug. 16th, 

 Norman Criddle ; Chicago, 111., June, J. H. Reading. 



TEANS. AM. ENT. SO<:. XXXIII. FEBRUARY. 1907. 



