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3 examples. N. Mexico. (Wilson Howard). 



It is with great pleasure that I dedicate this grand addition to our 

 fauna, to my old and valued friend. 



Euprepia caja, var. utahensi?. n. var. 



While collecting in Salt Lake City some two years ago, T took at the 

 electric lights about 40 specimens of a form, which differs so much from 

 Arctia americana as to deserve to be marked by name as a good variety. 

 In it the white bands of the primaries are invariably very much wider than 

 in .1. a me ric ana, and the base of the wings is in some specimens wholly 

 white with three brown spots. The head and collar are invariably much 

 redder than in the other form, while the secondaries are always pale orange 

 and never red as in americana. It is indeed a more exaggerated type 

 of caja much whiter and paler than any European example 1 have seen, 

 and remarkably constant to its characters. One specimen however has 

 the collar and sides of the thorax pale yellow. It would be interesting to 

 trace the early stages of this strongly aberrant form, and as it is abundant 

 in August, there ought to be little difficulty in so doiug. 



Halisidota laqueata. 11. sp. 



Wings but slightly clothed with scales. The primaries are marked with brown 

 streaks between the nervules, and fallowing their course. Those on the costa, in the 

 cell, and along the internal margin are the most strongly marked. The costa is pink 

 ish white, and at base of internal margin is a pale pink blotch. The submarginal line 

 is indicated by brown dashes. The secondaries arc subhyaline with the margin nar- 

 rowly dusky. Beneath both wings are subhyaline, with the margins broadly dusky. 

 Antennae rather long with the shaft cream color and the pectinations ochreous. Head 

 black with pink streak at base of antennae extending around the eyes, and to the base 

 of the palpi, which are black above, cream color beneath. Collar pale crimson in 

 front, with the edges pink posteriorly. Tegulie striped with pink, the inner streak 

 being rather broad. Abdomen reddish orange, shading into crimson posteriorly, with 

 be anal segment black. Sides black, with the upper edge triangular on the segments, 

 and with a broken cream color lateral streak. There are small triangular black 

 patches on the center of the 6th and 7th segments above. Beneath the abdomen is 

 sordid white, with the 2 anal segments black. The tibiae are cream color without. 

 r<>-y within, the fore pair with a blackish blotch. Tarsi dull cream color. 



1 9, Texas. Coll. D. Bruce. 



Expanse of wings. 48, mm. 

 An exquisite species, widely differing from any other in our fauna. 



Nelphe Carolina, n. sp. 



Primaries sordid white, with olivaceous markings. These are arranged in a sei 

 iesol >pot>, mostly oblong in shape, and placed between the nervures: those across 

 the m. ddlc of the wing and the cell being the largest, giving the wing a somewhat tes 

 -elated appearance. The nervures are also olivaceous, the costal region being the 

 »ame color but of a paler shade than the spots, of which three on the costa are quite 

 conspicuous, 'there are cuneate olivaceous dashes bttween the netvureson the mar- 

 gin. Secondaries slightly hyaline, with the border narrowly olivaceous. Thorax 



