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This is the species recorded by Mr. Morrison as flava from Texas, 

 and it is therefore doubtful whether flava really occurs there — as singula 

 extends to Arizona however, \\h.Q\Q flava is also found, the latter may 

 well be an inhabitant of Texas. 



The harpes of the male are very long and narrt)w, terminating in a 

 somewhat acute tip. The clasper is corneous, long, stout, rather ab- 

 ruptly bent and suddenly narrowing toward tij), terminating in a short 

 beak-like point. 



P. flavidens Grt. Bull. Surv., 5, 205, Pseudanarta. 



Head, thorax and primaries dark ashen or blackish fuscous. Thorax sprinkled 

 with black and gray, the patagiip black margincil. Primaries with median space 

 darker, s. t. space decidedly grayish and paler than the rest ot the wing. Basal 

 space somewhat evenly dark gray with a small brown spot near t. a. line. Basal half 

 line geminate, distinct, black. T. a. line very even, curved outwardly, distinctly 

 geminate, the inner line fainter, the outer black. T. p. line geminate, very even, 

 fine, outwardly curved over reniform which the line touches interiorly, then obliquely 

 incurved to the internal margin. A pale shade beyond reniform through the s. t. 

 space, gradually darkening to the terminal space which is evenly dark, relieving the 

 very irregular pale s. t. hne. Orbicular large, oblique, narrowly black ringed grayish 

 powdered. Reniform large upright pale ringed, and with a pale central line. A very 

 distinct black shade line from costa, close to reniform, and between it and orbicular, 

 then parallel with and close to t. p. line to the internal margin. Secondaries orange 

 yellow, with a broad black outer border, costa narrowly black. Beneath, primaries 

 pale yellow, with a broad black outer margm, the disk suffused with blackisii. 

 Secondaries as above, the costal region powdered with deep brick red. 



Expands, i.io — i 20 inches, 27.5 — 30 mm. 



Habitat — Colorado. 



This species seems rather common locally, and differs from all the 

 other species first in its larger average size, in the very even median lines, 

 the pale s. t. space, and in the distinct black median shade line. 



The genitalia of the male have the harpes moderately wide, the tip 

 rounded and slightly oblique. The clasper is corneous, broad at base, 

 suddenly bent beyond its middle, and then moderately long and distinctly 

 curved — differing thus throughout from singula without any definite 

 change of type. 



Dr. Horn is studying Heterocerus and Ochthehius. 



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Capt. Casey has in hand a Revision of the Pceden'ni. 



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 Mr. Roberts is making a very complete collection of water beetles, 

 and promises some results in the Haliplidce. 



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"Ye Editor" is getting his Noctuid MS. into shape, and a mono- 

 graph of Agrotis will probably be ready for press early in October. 



