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from Long Is., N. Y., Kittery, Me., Elizabeth and Anglesea, N. J.; 

 the average expanse in the $ 's is 34 mm. and of the 9 's 37 mm. ; 

 the race, besides being larger, is deeper ochreous with less of the 

 purplish suffusion found in the smaller southern specimens and the 

 dark streak from base of wing is usually quite broad with the upper 

 and lower silver borderings overlapping well at end of cell ; in size 

 and general appearance it looks closer to spadaria (PI. XVII, Figs. 

 7, 8) than to bistrialis. We figure our conception of all the species 

 and add the description of what appears to be a good species, as far 

 as species go in this genus. 



DORYODES TENUISTRIGA sp. nOV. (PI. XVII, FigS. 10, 11). 



Thorax pale pinkish-gray; primaries pale olive-ochreous, broadly shaded 

 along costa and inner and outer margins with pale purplish ; two faint dots in 

 the cell; a narrow, dark, olive-brown striga below median vein narrowing at 

 end of cell and curving upward to below apex bordered by a silver streak on 

 upper side to end of cell and on under side from apex to vein 3, a faint dark 

 s. t. line near outer margin not reaching below submedian fold. Secondaries 

 whitish. Beneath primaries smoky, secondaries whitish with smoky costa. Ex- 

 panse S 33 mm., 9 41 mm. 



Habitat: San Benito, Texas (Mch.-Apr.) ; Brownsville, Texas (Mch.). 

 2 5,1 9. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



The species may be distinguished from spadaria Gn. by the paler 

 ground color and the narrower black striga, especially noticeable at 

 end of cell where the two silver streaks slightly overlap; the apex 

 of primaries seems also less pointed in the S sex. 



EREBINAE 



Drasteria graphica Hbn. 



The type locality of this species which is figured in Hiibner's 

 Zutrage I, Figs. 11-12, is given as Georgia; both the locality and the 

 figure point strongly to graphica being the same species as capiticola 

 Wlk., given specific rank in our List and figured in both sexes by us 

 (Contr. Ill, (3) PI. XIII, Figs. 7, 8) ; capiticola (not capticola as we 

 have listed it) will sink therefore to graphica and for the northern 

 form from New Jersey and Long Island localities which has commonly 

 been known as graphica we will apparently need a name. This race 

 of graphica (PI. XIX, Figs. 1, 2), as we consider it, is distinguished 

 by the fact that the primaries in both sexes are practically similarly 

 marked, the 9 showing none of the obsolescence of markings char- 



