149 



The species belongs in the bicolorata group but we know of no 

 name applicable to it; it is extremely handsome and should be easily 

 recognized from our figure. 



Phasiane hebetata Hist. (PI. XXI, Fig. 13). 



In our Contributions Vol. Ill (3) p. 181, we called attention to 

 the poor condition of the type 9 at Rutgers and expressed the 

 opinion that hebetata would probably prove to be a poorly marked form 

 of decorata Grossb. A further study of the type and comparison 

 with more material proved conclusively to us that this reference was 

 erroneous; we believe now that hebetata is the same species as our 

 ponderosa form demaculata (Contr. Ill, (4) p. 235) ; the heavily 

 sprinkled under side with tinges of ochreous along costal border of 

 primaries and the large discal dot of secondaries are characteristic ; 

 besides a specimen which we figure which agrees absolutely with the 

 type, we have a Colorado $ of the heavily marked form ponderosa. 

 The synonymy would therefore stand 



hebetata Hist. 



demaculata B. & McD. 



form ponderosa B. & McD. 

 Decorata Grossb. must be reinstated as a good species and not a 

 form of hebetata. 



Itame sericeata Hist. (PI. XXI, Figs. 16, 17, 19, 20). 



This species was described (1898, C. Ent. XXX, 191) from 

 several specimens from Colorado Desert (Edw.) and Arizona 

 (Kunze) ; in Ent. News XVIII, 149, Grossbeck refers the 2 5 types 

 in the Hulst. Coll. to correllata Hist.; Dr. Dyar (Ent. News XVIII, 

 205) on the strength of a type from Prescott, Ariz., in the National 

 Museum objects to this reference and Grossbeck (1907, Tr. Am. Ent. 

 Soc. XXXIII, 341), after having seen a specimen agreeing with the 

 National Museum type, refers 1 9 type (Colorado Desert) to cor- 

 rellata, but keeps the other (Senator, Ariz.) as a good species, not- 

 ing however later on (1909, Ent. News, XX, 354) that sericeata Hist, 

 falls as a synonymy of colata Grt. 



The type of this latter species is a 9 from Tucson, Ariz., in 

 the Brooklyn Inst. Coll. ; we have examined this type carefully as 

 well as the two types in the Hulst Coll. representing respectively cor- 

 rellata and sericeata and fail to find specific diflferences; colata 



