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acteristic of the southern graphka; the white dots of the subterminal 

 Hne are less prominent in the northern form and the two teeth of the 

 extracelkilar patch are generally much more pronounced ; the yellow 

 color of secondaries is slightly paler and shows less of the inclina- 

 tion towards orange that we find in graphka. We propose the name 

 ATLANTiCA for this racc, our types (3 $ , 2> ? ) having been cap- 

 tured at Rock Beach, L. I., on June 9th by Mr. J. Doll. This race 

 should not be confused with the very similar species, occulta Hy. Edw. 

 (Fig. 3), which also occurs at Lakehurst, N. J., and the vicinity of 

 Boston, Mass., and which is rather larger, much deeper purplish in 

 color of primaries with a broader terminal area and with heavier 

 black banding on secondaries ; we figure both species which illustrates 

 the diflferences better than a description. 



Syneda abrupta sp. nov. (PI. XIX, Figs. 12, 14). 



$. Head gray; thorax an admixture of ochreous and gray scaling with a 

 longitudinal black streak on each tegula and black shading on the patagia ; 

 primaries with basal area lilac-gray crossed near base by a geminate black 

 subbasal line, not reaching inner margin, and defined outwardly by a broadly 

 geminate t. a. line, black, irregular, filled in with brown and with prominent 

 outward bulges in the cell and again in subraedian fold ; median area whitish 

 ochreous, paler inwardly and rather shiny, crossed outwardly by a geminate 

 brown line arising from a diffuse smoky area on costa above reniform which 

 is itself dark smoky, its basal edge formed by a straight white streak, its outer 

 edge very irregularly dentate and outlined with white, this color also extending 

 along veins 3 and 4 to t. p. line; beyond reniform the sinus formed by the t. p. 

 line is filled with brownish shading; t. p. line as usual strongly bent around 

 cell with small tooth just below costa and more prominent one on vein 6, 

 bluntly protruding between veins 3 and 4, straight from base of vein 3 to inner 

 margin ; s. t. space largely smoky ; terminal space lilac-gray defined inwardly by 

 a slightly paler, obscure, very waved s. t. line, strongly bulged outwardly below 

 costa and at vein 3; dark crenulate terminal line; fringes checkered, white and 

 smoky. Secondaries with basal half rather hyaline, slightly smoky, with dark 

 lunule and broad outer smoky band broken by a pale spot on outer margin 

 between veins 2 and 3 ; fringes checkered. Beneath whitish hyaline, primaries 

 with large dark discal lunule in a diffuse dark spot and broad outer border, 

 secondaries with smaller lunule and narrow subterminal dark band, the mar- 

 ginal area being white with slight dark spot between veins 3 and 4. 



9. Median area darker than in $, with more lilac-gray shading; 

 secondaries with basal area scarcely paler than marginal band ; beneath more 

 obscure with pale marginal area of secondaries generally obscured with smoky. 

 Expanse 41 mm. 



Habitat: Huachuca Mts., Palmerlee, Ariz.; Jemez Spgs., N. M.; 2 $, 

 3 ?. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



