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zontal black lines, sometimes joined at their outer ends and sometimes broken 

 into dots, and occasionally with a dot or two below — the beginning of a third 

 line. The costa is lightly marked with whitish oblique dashes, these beyond 

 middle, five in number, are geminate, with faint leaden-metallic lines separating 

 the two parts of each, from the middle one of the five a leaden line runs to simi- 

 lar shorter streak from spot before apex. The ground color between ocellus and 

 these costal streaks is more ochraceous than pink. Cilia very pale fawn, becom- 

 ing brown at apex and with a speckled row of gray at base. 



Hind wing: shining grayish-fnscous, cilia the same; underside of both wings 

 the same, forewing a shade darker. 



Sixteen specimens : Montclair and Essex (/O., N. J., Aug. 8th to 

 26th, with net and at light trap; Kentucky (Covington), Aug., A. 

 Busck ; Washington Co., Ark., July, A. J. Brown ; Hastings, Fla., 

 Oct., A. J. Brown. One specimen from U. S. Nat. Mus. labelled 

 "Salidago, 11/884," and " From Glovers coll. 83." 



Cotype in U. S. Nat. Mus. 



This species has been incorrectly named as Semasia ochreicostana 

 Wlsm. by Dr. Dyar, in my collection and others. 



Proteopleryx laracaiia sp. nov. — * 



Expanse 15-17.5 mm. 



Head, palpi, antenna and thorax yellowish-gray, latter speckled with fuscous; 

 abdomen and legs yellowish-gray, latter dusted and banded with dark brown. 



Forewing: no male costal fold; shining whitish-gray, somewhat mottled with 

 blackish-brown. There are two conspicuous blackish-brown characters, one a 

 streak in middle of wing from base nearly to middle, the other a crescent-shaped 

 fascia from middle of costa to middle of wing, then turning and running into 

 apex. The basal streak widens below at about a quarter from base, and beyond 

 its outer pointed end it sends a more or less obsolete fine line along fold to anal 

 angle. The lower edge of the crescent mark reaches below middle of wing at 

 outer third, its upper edge is dusted at the upward turn ; in the gray area en- 

 closed by the crescent, are four large brown costal spots and four fine brown lines. 

 The inner third of costa is marked by three oblique brown lines. The dorsal 

 edged from inner fourth to angle is marked with brown dots. In the darkest 

 specimens the basal streak connects with the crescent, and the lobe on its lower 

 side reaches to dorsum ; the outer end of crescent is also enlarged and separated 

 from the inner portion by a line of ground color. Cilia gray, preceded by two 

 dark basal lines, a white dash below apex. 



Hindwing: silvery-gray, cilia paler, underside the same. 



Underside forewing: gray below middle, smoky brown above, costal marks 

 repeated . 



Thirteen specimens : Cincinnati, Ohio, March 27th to April 10th, 

 Miss Braun ; New Brighton, Pa., March 27th to April 15th, F. A. 

 Merrick. 



This is one of several species in Mr. Merrick's collection, incor- 

 rectly identified as P. spoliana Clem, by Dr. Dyar. 



TKANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXXIII. FEBRUARY, 1907. 



