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Forewing: yellowish-white or dirty white, more or less mottled with brown- 

 ish-black. The dark color forms a fascia from middle of costa to anal angle, be- 

 ginning at costa as an extra wide oblique costal line to upper third, below this it 

 widens and is darker, and from its upper outer edge sends a spur into apex ; the 

 latter just before reaching apex sends a line down to below middle of termen. 

 The oblique fascia is divided into three spots, as below the middle it is interrup- 

 ted by a roundish spot of whitish scales. The basal area is not distinctly defined, 

 but that part of the wing is more strigulated with black than the space between 

 it and the fascia. The costa, before the fascia, is lightly marked with black, be- 

 yond the fascia with four brownish-black spots, the outer one close to the apex. 

 The ocellic spot is large, of silvery-white scales on sides, with a spot of dull white 

 scales, containing grayish and brown dots in the center, it occupies all of the 

 the space between and below the fascia and streaks from same. Cilia white, pre- 

 ceded by a geminate submarginal line on lower half, shaded with fuscous at lower 

 third and below apex, becoming blackish-brown at apex. 



%. — Hindwing: black, cilia white, silvery-white below costa and yellowish 

 hair pencil. 



Underside both wings: yellowish-white, the costa of forewing and the outer 

 half of both wings, except at termen, entirely overlaid with black scales. The 

 upper side of hindwing and lower side of both wings of the females are grayish- 

 fuscous. 



Five males and two females : Prescott, Ariz., July 5th and 18th, 

 Dr. Kunze ; Oak Creek Canon, Ariz., 6000 ft. elevation, Aug., Prof. 

 F. H. Snow; Pueblo, Colo., July, F. H. Nash ; Cold Spring, Colo., 

 Dr. Dietz; Fort Collins, Colo,, June 24th, Gillette; Denver, Colo., 

 Dyar and Caudell, No. 16,736. 



Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus. and University of Kansas. 



Proteoteras crescentana sp. nov. 



Expanse 16-18 mm. 



Head, palpi, thorax and base of antenna very light brownish-white; outer side 

 of palpi shaded with black and apical joint the same color, base of patagia shaded 

 with brown ; abdomen grayish-fuscous, lateral tuft white; legs whitish, dusted 

 and banded with black. 



Forewing: light gray, with a very strong, well defined black crescent from 

 middle of costa to apex, it is broadest between costa and the lower side of the 

 curve, which is below middle of wing, from there to apex it tapers gradually 

 ending in apex as a narrow line. The black basal area is well defined above the 

 middle of wing, its outer edge starting from inner fifth and running to inner 

 third at middle ; below this, it is indistinctly angled inward to dorsum. On the 

 upper half of wing, between basal and crescent dark patches, is a fascia of whit- 

 ish scales, which follows the underside of crescent above fold, nearly into ocellic 

 spot; it is strigulated by a line of dark fuscous scales. Beneath fold from base to 

 angle is a streak of brownish-ochreous, and the semi-circular patch of ground 

 color on outer half of costa, enclosed by crescent, is of the same color. The ocellic 

 spot is large, of gray and white scales, the inner and outer edges are leaden-me- 

 tallic. Between the outer edge of ocellus and apex and before the inner side of 



TRANS. AM. KNT. 80C. S.XXIII. (7) FEBEUARY, 1907. 



