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The group is a difficult one and will require further study, but 

 we are reasonably sure of our reference of puellaria Dyar to escaria 

 Grt. 



Glaucina simularia sp. nov. (PI. XXI, Fig. 14). 



Thorax and primaries deep smoky ; t. a, line indistinct, sharply angled 

 outwardly below cubitus ; a slight black streak in cell ; median shade and t. p. 

 line close together and parallel, arising from apical portion of costa and 

 strongly inwardly oblique, the former broad, smoky, bent outward below costa, 

 then oblique and slightly crenulate with a faint inward angle in submedian 

 fold ; t. p. Une narrow, oblique at costa, slightly bulging at vein 6, then curving 

 obliquely backward to submedian fold where it bends outward and continues 

 less obliquely to inner margin just beyond its center; it is followed by a 

 distinct light brown shade-band ; subterminal area shaded with blackish and 

 white and bounded outwardly by a white s. t. line, in general parallel to t. p. 

 line ; fringes dark with white basal line. Secondaries heavily sprinkled with 

 smoky and with a deeper smoky terminal border, containing a white, slightly 

 irregular s. t. line parallel to outer margin ; fringes as on primaries. Beneath 

 heavily peppered with smoky with traces of the subterminal markings of upper 

 side on both wings; secondaries with small discal dot. Expanse 28 mm. 



Habitat : Monachee Meadows, Tulare Co., Calif. 1 9 . Type, Coll. 

 Barnes. 



The species is closely allied to hulstinoides Grossb. but is larger, 

 darker-winged and the lateral rim of the frontal prominence is not so 

 well defined. Both species show distinct pectinate antennae in the 

 9 sex which may eventually lead to their separation from the genus 

 Glaucina to which in maculation they show no very great affinity. The 

 tibial spine on our species is small and might easily be overlooked. 



Pterotaea obliviscata sp. nov. (PI. XXI, Fig. 21). 



Very similar to memoriata Pears. (PI. XXI, Fig. 18) but paler in color 

 without the ochreous tinge of this species ; the maculation is very obscure, but 

 in general similar to that of memoriata ; the s. t. line is better defined, irregular, 

 distinctly dentate, the whole terminal area being paler then the s. t. area and 

 without the heavy dark shades at apex and ana! angle with a pale space be- 

 tween veins 3 and 4 which characterizes memoriata; there is a distinct row of 

 terminal blackish interspaceal dots on both wings (lacking in Pearsall's species) 

 and usually a small but fairly clear discal dot. Beneath both wings are whit- 

 ish with generally a small discal dot and dotted terminal line. Expanse 23 mm. 



Habitat: Paradise, Arizona (May, Aug., Sept.) 7 3, 4 9. Types, 

 Coll. Barnes. 



