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pinkish color is doubtless due to discoloration, as a careful examina- 

 tion showed us traces of the original gray ground color on a small 

 section of the primaries. 



Protagrotis EXTENSA Sm. (PI. XV, Fig. 2). 



This species, at present listed under the genus Lupcrina, should 

 be transferred to the genus Protagrotis Hamp. as the hind tibiae show 

 a single spine between the upper and lower pairs of spurs. The species 

 is closely related to nh<eivenosa Grt. but lacks the white veins of pri- 

 maries and is generally deeper in color. 



HADENINAE 



SCOTOGRAMMA FULGORA sp. nOV. (PI. XVI, Fig. 9). 



Head and thorax deep gray, collar tipped with white and crossed by a 

 black line ; patagia with well defined black line near upper margin ; primaries 

 dark smoky gray; a slight black dash at base; t. a. line obsolescent, geminate, 

 thrice dentate, preceded above inner margin by an oblique smoky shade ; clavi- 

 form prominent, large, outlined in black and filled with smoky ; orbicular a 

 decumbent oval, outlined in white; reniform moderate, filled with a smoky 

 shade in lower portion, incompletely outlined in white and black toward costa ; 

 t. p. line obsolescent, geminate, sinuate ; s. t. line prominent white, forming a 

 distinct W mark on veins 3 and 4, angled outwardly below costa and bent out 

 on vein 1 to outer margin, preceded by dark streaks in central portion ; ter- 

 minal dark broken lunulate line ; fringes smoky-gray cut by paler opposite the 

 veins. Secondaries whitish with a broad smoky terminal suffusion and veins 

 outlined in smoky ; fringe pale with central dusky line. Beneath primaries 

 smoky, sprinkled with white along costa and outwardly with prominent dark 

 discal lunules ; secondaries whitish, heavily sprinkled with smoky especially 

 along costa and outer margin. Expanse 27 mm. 



Habitat: Olancha, Inyo Co., Calif. (Apr.) 1 $. Type, Coll. Barnes. 



The species has probably been confused with hadcniformis Sm. 

 but differs structurally, this latter species possessing a lunulate frontal 

 prominence with large central tubercle, whereas our species has merely 

 a rounded protuberance as in trifolii. We have three other specitnens 

 collected by O. Poling in Southern Utah. 



PoLiA IMPOLITA Morr. 



The identity of this species has been for years more or less of a 

 puzzle ; in our list we followed Hampson, placing the species in Scoto- 

 gramma, but it was unknown to us at the time. The species was de- 

 scribed from a single specimen received from Prof. Belanger of Quebec 



