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Renia nemoralis sp. nov. (PI. XV, Figs. 10, 11). 



Head, thorax and primaries a distinct reddish-brown somewhat shaded 

 with smoky, giving rather a purplish hue along costa and subterminally ; a 

 faint basal curved half-line; t. a. line dark, even, slightly rounded outwardly 

 with minute angle at costa ; orbicular a round orange spot, poorly defined by 

 black; reniform orange, narrowly lunate with central upper and lower black 

 dots often joined by a dark line; a median dark shade crossing the reniform; 

 t. p. line bent outward at costa, then evenly crenulate and parallel to outer 

 margin ; s. t. line faint, ochreous, irregular, preceded by dark shading ; a broken 

 dark terminal line. Secondaries smoky, paler basally with dark, slightly crenu- 

 late median line, sharply angled near inner margin, shaded outwardly by pale 

 ochreous ; a faint dark s. t. line most distinct at inner margin where it is shaded 

 slightly with ochreous. Beneath smoky brown, basal half of wings pale with 

 smoky sprinkles, primaries with discal dash, rather distinct straight postmedian 

 line and faint s. t. line, defined at costa by several ochreous dots ; secondaries 

 with large prominent discal streak, a curved crenulate postmedian line and a 

 faint pale s. t. line ; dark marginal line to both wings. Expanse 28 mm. 



Habitat: Long Is., N. Y. (Aug.); Nueces Riv., Texas. 2 $,2 9. 

 Types, Coll. Barnes. 



We have had the upper wings of a specimen from Elizabeth, 

 N. J., in the collection for some time awaiting further material, so 

 imagine the species will occur in most of the Eastern States. This 

 species has probably been confused with factiosalis Wlk. but differs 

 in its much larger size, a red-brown color in both sexes (factiosalis 

 is smoky brown in S ) and more sharply angled median line on sec- 

 ondaries ; it differs from larvalis Grt. with which it agrees in size, by 

 the more regular t. a. line. 



