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The original descriptions of graefiana (Bull. Buff. Soc. II, 89) 

 and moffatiana (Bull. Geol. Surv. VI, 581) and especially the latter 

 give us a good clue as to what the true graefiana really is ; the figure 

 of this latter species in Grote's 111. Essay PI. Ill, Fig. 38, is erroneous 

 and correctly referred to moffatiana by Hampson, as this is one of 

 Mr. Moffat's specimens on which Grote based his later name, stating 

 at the time that graefiana can always be distinguished by its "yellow 

 ground color, red lines which are also straighter and perhaps thicker, 

 as well as the paler hind wings" ; the original description of graefiana 

 bears out these distinctions excellently. It is possible that the true 

 type is in the Graef Coll. at the Brooklyn Inst.; the British Museum 

 type, if it agrees with Hampson's figure of indirecta, must be spurious. 

 We figure both species, our figure of indirecta (PI. XV, Fig. 17) being 

 of a specimen we compared in 1913 with Walker's type. 



HOMOGLAEA VARIEGATA Sp. nov. (PI. XV, Fig. 7). 



Palpi and front heavily clothed with pinkish brown hairs ; thorax hairy, 

 brown ; primaries deep ochreous heavily black-sprinkled leaving the ground 

 color only visible along the costa, between the geminate portion of t. a. and t. p. 

 lines and slightly in the cell and subterminally ; basal half line black, indistinct; 

 t. a. line geminate, slightly outwardly oblique, crenulate, filled with ochreous; 

 orbicular obliquely oval, large, partially outlined in orange; reniform upright, 

 narrowly figure-of-eight-shaped, black-filled, the outer edge rather rigid and 

 outlined in pale ochreous followed by an orange line which extends around 

 the entire spot ; a dark indefinite median shade-line subparallel to t. a. line ; 

 veins beyond reniform slightly outlined in ochreous ; t. p. line geminate, gently 

 sinuate and finely crenulate, filled with pale ochreous, followed by a broad 

 dark shade band limited outwardly at costa by a dark dash slightly shaded 

 with orange ; beyond this is a paler s. t. area containing minute black dots 

 representing s. t. line, followed by dark terminal shading ; fringes dark with 

 orange-ochreous basal portion, forming a distinct pale crenulate line. Secon- 

 daries dark smoky with paler, slightly pinkish fringes. Beneath primaries smoky 

 with distinct pinkish shades along costa and terminally; secondaries paler, pink 

 shaded with prominent dark discal dot and postmedian line. Expanse 40 mm. 



Habitat : Palmerlee, Ariz. 2 S . Types, Coll. Barnes. 



In one $ , which we have made a Paratype, the ground color is 

 a pale pinkish ochreous with obsolescent maculation ; enough remains 

 of the spots, the costo-apical dash and the s. t. line to show that the 

 two specimens belong to a single species which doubtless shows great 

 variability as regards the ground color and distinctness of maculation. 



