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each other reaching so far in towards hiiier margin as to almost form ringlets, 

 then an extra-discal gray band much clouded and striated with blackish scales, 

 with a deep cloud along costa. with a black siibmarginal line, scallojjed, outwardly 

 dentate; marginal space blackish below apex; hind wings fuscous, with a faint 

 middle lighter cross-line; beneath light fuscous, faintly revealing the markings 

 above. 



Arizona. 



H. sparsiinaciila n. sp. — Expands 28 mm. Palpi light cinereous, black 

 at end ; front and thorax gray. Abdomen fuscous dorsally, much lighter on sides 

 and below: fore wings light glaucous gray, washed with fuscous, with dark mark- 

 ings along costa showing the beginning of basal, discal, extra-discal and outer 

 cross-lines, these discernible across the wing only by the lighter edgir.g cross-lines 

 and a few black scales; a black spot at middle of inner margin and another at 

 anal angle ; also one or two small black spots at apex ; hind wings dull whitish, 

 with two faint, even rounded, broad cross-lines, and a faint submarginal line ; 

 beneath even, lighter, very faintly showing markings above. 



California ; near some variations of H. caiifoniiata Pack., espe- 

 cially those of the glaucata form. 



H. neo-mexicaiia u. sp. — Expands 38-42 mm. Palpi fuscous above, 

 blackish on sides and below; under part of head whitish ;. face fuscous black; 

 thorax dark fuscous to grayish black. Abdomen dark fuscous, ringed with lighter 

 fuscous, a blackish spot dorsally on each segment. Wings varying from light to 

 dark fuscous, in fresh specimens darker, and then with a grayish olive shading; 

 the whole surface of the fore wings is covered with scalloped cross-lines of vary- 

 ing intensity, the rounded part outward and generally subparallel, the lines being 

 of a lighter color, the intersi)aces darker; at the base the darker color is empha- 

 sized by blackish forming a darker basal space, then a broad, genex'ally lighter 

 space to a broad central darker band, the inner line of this heavily shaded with 

 blackish outwardly, the outer line with blackish inwardly, the inner dentate 

 scalloped, the outer more irregular than usual with two strongly projecting outer 

 scallops on veins 3 and 4; a submarginal outer line whitish, serrate on both sides ; 

 hind wings rather even fuscous, with faint indications of scalloped lines out- 

 wardly, especially near inner angle ; beneath both wing-s light fuscous with a 

 ♦[uite blackish undulating hair line beyond middle, and a broad, even, submar- 

 ginal, blackish band ; marginal lighter, fringe checkered with black at end of 

 veins. 



Described from a number of specimens in collection of Neumoegen 

 and myself. Mr. Neumoegen's specimens are without locality, 

 though I think they were said to be from Florida. My own speci- 

 mens are from New Mexico (Cockerell), Colorado (Gillette) and 

 Florida. 



H. herbicolata n. s]). — Expands 18-20 mm. Palpi short, rather coai-sely 

 haired, blackish or black and ocher gray mixed ; clypeus rather coarsely long 

 haired, somewhat tufted ; tliorax rather squamose, black and gray intermixed. 

 Abdomen fuscous ocher and black intermixed, the basal segment darker than the 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXIIP. .AUGUST. 1896. 



