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RIODINIDAE 



Apodemia mormo DESERTi var. nov. (PI. XII, Figs. 1, 2). 



We have 3 specimens from La Puerta Valley before us which are 

 distinctive enough to warrant a racial name. The head, patagia and 

 abdomen are partially clothed with pale yellow hairs, primaries from 

 base to postmedian band of white spots pale orange (except at inner 

 margin) with the usual white black-bordered discal spots; beyond this 

 postmedian band the wing is deep gray-brown with a very prominent 

 subterminal row of white spots ; secondaries deep gray-brown, slightly 

 tinged at base with orange with the white spots of primaries repeated, 

 the subterminal ones being particularly well-developed; beneath much 

 as in the type form. This is probably a desert race easily distinguished 

 from the type form (PI. XII, Figs. 3, 4) by its pale coloration and 

 large white subterminal spots ; it is slightly smaller in size, the S being 

 22 mm. and the 9 25 mm. in expanse. Our types (1 S , 2 5 ) 

 were received from Mr. G. Field of San Diego who captured them 

 on July Ilth in La Puerta Valley, S. Cahf . ; we have similar speci- 

 mens from Palm Springs, Riverside Co., Calif., on the borders of the 

 Mohave Desert. 



Apodemia multiplaga Schaus. (PI. XII, Fig. 14). 



This species, described from Mexico (1902, Proc. U. S. N. M. 

 XXIV, 404) must be added to our N. Am. Lists ; we have a specimen 

 from San Benito, Texas, captured during the latter half of June. 



Genus Calephelis G. & R. 



We have been greatly puzzled by a species from San Benito, 

 Texas, of which we have a good series and for which we can find no 

 valid name. 



It differs from nemesis Edw. {australis Edw.), (PI. XII, Figs. 

 8-10) which also occurs in the same locality, by the fact that in both 

 sexes the primaries are equally rounded, not sharply pointed in the 

 $ sex as we find in nemesis; the S 's are difficult to separate, but 

 apart from the greater depth of the brown ground-color above they 

 may be generally fairly readily distinguished by the fact that the outer 

 row of black basal dots is much closer to the postmedian silver line 



