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falls near Lithacodia) and we placed it in our list provisionally in 

 Nantangana which, as we have already had occasion to remark, is 

 more or less of a dumping ground for species with uncertain rela- 

 tionships. Possibly some of Dr. Dyar's new Mexican genera will prove 

 to be the final resting place for these troublesome species but until we 

 have had the opportunity of examining his types we are uncertain 

 even of this. 



EuTRicopis NEXiLis Morr. 



This species, which occurs in Colorado and the Pacific Northwest, 

 shows typically on the underside, apart from the ordinary pale median 

 spots, considerable whitish shading on the secondaries at the base 

 and costo-apically ; we have a series of specimens from the southern 

 Sierras which entirely lack this pale shading with the exception of a 

 few pale hairs basally ; the secondaries, roughly speaking, show a deep 

 pink costal half and a black inner half, the pink portion extending 

 about half way down outer margin ; there is a rather broad black 

 marginal line on both wings below and the fringes of primaries on 

 upper side are prominently white with a dark apical spot ; otherwise 

 we can see no marked difTerence in maculation between the forms 

 which we consider racial; for the Californian form we propose the 

 name subcolorata, our types being 8 5,3 9 from Tuolumne 

 Meadows, Calif. (July) ; we also have specimens from Mineral King, 

 Tulare Co., CaHf. (July). 



Annaphila astrologa sp. nov. (PI. XIX, Fig. 11). 



Pectus and base of palpi white ; upper side of palpi black ; thorax scaled 

 with black and white and with a few reddish-colored hairs ; abdomen blackish, 

 ringed with pale ochreous inter-segmentally ; primaries largely blackish; t. a. 

 line geminate, filled with white, slightly oblique with prominent outward angle 

 below cell ; orbicular obscure, round, outlined in black, crossed by a dark median 

 line, subparallel to t. a. line ; reniform oval, white, dark centered, attached 

 outwardly to the broadly white-shaded t. p. line which starts from a white spot 

 on costa, forms a small loop at upper end of reniform followed by a much 

 larger one crossing vein 4, bends strongly inward below cell forming two 

 slight teeth and then bulges outward to inner margin ; s. t. space slightly shaded 

 with blue-white ; s. t. line white, faint, irregular, close to outer margin. Sec- 

 ondaries with central area orange, basal area black with slight orange shades ; 

 a broad black outer border into which the orange color bulges roundedly 

 opposite cell ; a very faint trace of a black discal dot or else none at all. 

 Beneath primaries orange crossed by broad black median and subterminal bands 

 the latter strongly broadened at costa ; terminal area white-shaded ; a faint 



