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The frontal protuberance is rather reduced, especially the central 

 process but the species bears such an undoubted resemblance to dis- 

 similis B. & McD. that we place it in the genus Nocloa. 



COPANARTA SEXPUNCTATA sp. nOV. (PI. Ill, Fig. 17). 



Palpi pale ochreous mixed with black; front and thorax dull blackish 

 slightly peppered with whitish and with some bluish iridescent scales; primaries 

 dull black crossed by three deep black lines, the first subbasal, straight, ex- 

 tending only to middle of wing, the second antemedian, angled slightly out- 

 wardly below costa and with a prominent outward bulge below the cubital 

 vein, the third postmedian, crenulate, angled below costa and well rounded about 

 cell, bent in strongly below reniform and slightly angled on vein 1 ; a prom- 

 inent white reniform, partially filled with smoky brown centred with white, 

 preceded by a faint whitish shade on costa ; a faint wavy white s. t. line, 

 considerably broken; fringes black with a white point at extremity of veins; 

 secondaries black with a large round white spot filling entire end of cell and 

 another oval white spot at middle of inner margin. Beneath black, primaries 

 with inner margin shaded with white and with a single large round white discal 

 spot, secondaries with two white spots as on upper side. Expanse 20 mm. 



Habitat: Shasta Retreat, Siskiyou Co., Calif. (July 1-7) (McDunnough). 

 5 $ ,7 9 . Types, Coll. Barnes. 



The species was taken flying in the hottest sunshine around patches 

 of Apocynum on the railway tracks a short distance north of Shasta 

 Retreat. It shows considerable likeness to Pseudacontia aterrima and 

 groteana but the outer claw on the fore tibia, which characterizes the 

 genus Pseudacontia, is wanting, so we judge the species better placed 

 in Copanarta. 



ERASTRIINAE 



Phobolosia bilineata sp. nov. (PI. Ill, Fig. 10). 



Palpi white, dark at base; front pale with a bronze interantennal tuft; 

 thorax white, sprinkled with black; primaries olivaceous, crossed by numerous 

 fine black striae, forming parallel lines across the wing ; t. a. and t. p. lines 

 black, thickest on costal half of wing, bordered on each side by white, former 

 slightly rounded, latter well rounded below costa then parallel to outer margin 

 and subparallel to t. a. line; reniform represented by a short black longitudinal 

 streak ; a narrow apical white patch, from which a faint white s. t. line 

 arises, bent in opposite cell and in fold ; terminal area whitish with prom- 

 inent black terminal line ; fringes ochreous at base, olivaceous outwardly. 

 Secondaries smoky with broken terminal dark line and pale basal line to fringes. 

 Beneath primaries smoky with white apical patch and dark streak showing 

 the commencement of t. p. line of upper side; secondaries white, sprinkled 



