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Nemoria punctularia sp. nov. 



Palpi pale ochreous, tinged with reddish, 3rd joint largely reddish ; front 

 dull reddish, dotted anteriorly with white; white fillet between antennae bor- 

 dered posteriorly with red; collar and thorax green; abdomen dorsally largely 

 light brown with dark purple blotches at base and on 3rd and 4th segments, 

 each with a slight sprinkling of white scales forming a more or less evident 

 small central patch; laterally the abdomen is tinged with green shading into 

 white, beneath white; legs ochreous tinged with ruddy; primaries bright green, 

 evenly sprinkled with fine white dots, costa narrowly white with red shading 

 at base; faint white t. a. line, outwardly oblique; t. p. line white, faint, almost 

 straight across wing; a prominent purple-brown discal dot; fringes pale with 

 slight ruddy shading near apex. Secondaries similar to primaries in macula- 

 tion but the cross-lines curved ; discal dot present. Beneath pale greenish white 

 with ochreous costa. Expanse 27 mm. 



Habitat: San Francisco, Calif. ( 5 ) ; Camp Baldy, S. Bern. Mts., Calif. 

 (June-July) (?). 1 3. 2 5. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



Very similar in maculation to darwiniata Dyar but with large 

 discal spots ; the abdominal maculation is peculiar, the prominent white 

 spots with narrow red border of Jariciniata being modified into pur- 

 plish blotches with small white center, segment II being brownish, 

 not green. 



ACIDALIINAE 



ACIDALIA BUCEPHALARIA sp. nOV. (PI. XXIII, Fig. 2). 



Primaries even dark ochreous, very slightly speckled with black; cross 

 lines well defined, blackish; t. a. line single, bent outward below costa, then 

 inwardly oblique to inner margin, a small discal dot, usually quite distinct, fol- 

 lowed by a slightly waved dark line in general parallel to outer margin ; a rather 

 heavier and more strongly waved s. t. line, parallel to the preceding; faint 

 traces of a pale line in the terminal space preceded by smoky shading; a faint 

 dark dotted fringe line; secondaries with the lines of primaries continued with 

 the exception of the t. a. line and with the discal dot usually represented by a 

 small dark dot in the median line. Beneath paler than above with similar macu- 

 lation, the t. a. line of primaries being however lacking, the other lines very 

 distinct as is usually the case with the discal dots. Expanse 24 mm. 



Habitat : Tuolumne Meadows, Calif. 13 5,8 ? . Types, Coll. Barnes. 



The species is very close to sideraria Gn., agreeing in antennal 

 structure but entirely lacking all trace of the ruddy terminal shading 

 found in this species ; the under side also is much paler ochreous and 

 more heavily marked. In connection with the generic name Acidalia 

 Tr. (1825) we would note that we are aware that this is preoccupied 



