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evenly spaced; from each alternate dash a dark-cream or pale-brown line 

 runs obliquely towards termen, the first merging into second before 

 reaching termen, the three outer ones merging and reaching termen just 

 below apex ; the lines are nearly obsolete in some specimens. Between 

 these lines, along costa, the white ground colour has a shining iridescent 

 appearance. The ocellic spot is of the same shining white, enclosing a 

 cream or very pale-brown centre, and contains three short, horizontal 

 black dashes, vertical to each other, with two similar black dashes before 

 the ocellus. These black dashes are easily removed, in some slightly 

 rubbed specimens. Some or all are entirely missing. Cilia cream-white, 

 thickly powdered with dark-gray atoms. Hind wing, above and beneath, 

 very pale fuscous, cilia white, with a faint fuscous line beyond ba'=e. 



Under side fore wing shining brassy-fuscous, costa narrowly white, 

 cilia cream-white. 



Eleven specimens. ^ and 9 • Cartwright, Manitoba, E. Firmstone 

 Heath ; Washington Co., Arkansas, July and August, A. J. Brown. I 

 take much pleasure in dedicating this species to the Dean of our Canadian 

 entomologists. The species is one of the strongly protected kind, and 

 doubtless when at rest on a leaf, with wings folded, it as closely resembles 

 "a bird-dropping as the well-known Stenoma Schlcegeri, Zell., which it 

 superficially resembles. 



Co-types : Mr. Heath's and my collection. 



Thiodia ochrotermenana, sp. nov.— Expanse, ii to 15.5 mm. Fore 

 wing, inner three-quarters mottled black, ocellic spot and termen, including 

 apex, dull ochreous. 



Head rough, brownish-ochreous. Palpi flattened, compressed, third 

 joint not exposed, brownish-ochreous, stained with darker brown in front 

 and below, and streaks of same colour on outer sides towards base. 

 Antennae, basal joints light brown, outer joints dentate in ^ , simple in 9 , 

 dark fuscous. 



Thorax ochreous-brown anteriorly, patagia same, a dark brown streak 

 on posterior half of thorax. Abdomen cinereous, anal tuft clearer yellow. 

 Legs cinereous, tibiae and tarsi annulated and streaked with blackish- 

 brown. 



Fore wing, inner two-thirds to three-quarters dull black, flecked with a 

 few brown scales, and with darker-black lines, like watered silk. A few 

 brown scales at extreme base, a i&w about middle of wing on lower half, 

 and two paler spots on costa beyond middle, each enclosing a darker dot. 

 The ocellic space and above it to apex, including the cilia, is dull ochreous. 



