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to inner margin with an occasional slight incurve opposite cell, bordered on both 

 sides by a faint yellowish hair-line; a large but faint oval discal ringlet and a 

 faint whitish diffuse s. t. line; secondaries faintly scalloped, whitish, heavily 

 sprinkled with smoky with a large faint discal ringlet and traces, especially at 

 anal margin, of a dark median line angled above vein 4; the s. t. line of primaries 

 is faintly repeated ; a very faint broken terminal dark line on both wings ; fringes 

 concolorous, at times slightly checkered. Beneath primaries whitish, sprinkled 

 with smoky and distinctly tinged with light brown along costa and at apex; 

 secondaries rather paler with dark sprinkles and the veins distinctly outlined in 

 light brown ; prominent discal ringlets on both wings and terminal broken dark 

 line; fringes of primaries slightly checkered. Expanse 29 mm. 



Habitat : $ 's, Cartwright, Man. (June 14, July 24) ; $ 's, Aweme, Man. 

 (June 20), Calgary, Alta. (June 16). 2 $,2 $. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



This species is closely allied to hebetata Hist, and decorata Grossb. 

 differing in the larger discal ringlet and lack of pinkish shading bor- 

 dering t. p. line on upper side and by the more prominent brown shad- 

 ing on underside. As described above the typical form has the cross 

 lines extremely black and heavy; another form (PI. XXIII, Fig. 9) is 

 before us in which the cross-lines are much fainter and tend to become 

 obsolescent, especially in the $ 's ; we propose for this the name dema- 

 culata and the types are 3 $ 's from Calgary, Alta. (May 11, July 1, 

 July 5) and 3 9 's from Calgary, Alta. (July 1), Banff, Alta. (July 

 1) and Field, B. C. (July 2) all in Collection Barnes. 



Phasiane septemberata sp. nov. (PI. XXIII, Fig. 4). 



Palpi and antennae tinged with ochreous; thorax deep gray; primaries 

 rather an even deep gray, at times irrorate with white in the median area, 

 crossed by two black subparallel lines which are often almost obsolete ; t. a. line 

 bent slightly outward at costa, then inwardly oblique ; t. p. line with a bend or 

 bulge opposite cell, otherwise straight in its general course ; a faint dark discal 

 dot and terminal broken line ; fringes concolorous, with a pale median line. 

 Secondaries paler gray deepening outwardly and sprinkled with black and white 

 scaling along anal margin ; faint traces above anal angle of a postmedian line, 

 terminal line and fringes as on primaries. Beneath primaries rather even dark 

 gray with whitish sprinkling in median area ; secondaries whitish strongly pep- 

 pered with smoky brown and with usually a small discal dot; veins faintly out- 

 lined in ochreous. Expanse 22-25 mm. 



Habitat: Paradise, Cochise Co., Ariz. (Sept., Oct.) 4 <$ , 4 $. Types, 

 Coll. Barnes. 



Closely allied to excurvata Pack, (spodopterata Hist.) but smaller, 

 more even in color and without the dark shades beyond the t. p. line. 



