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Itame (diastictis) extemporata sp. nov. (PI. XXIII, Fig. 10). 



Thorax and primaries dull purplish gray, the latter tinged with reddish in 

 terminal area except at apex of wing; t. a. line bent below costa where it is 

 quite distinct, then faint and upright to inner margin ; median line arising from 

 a prominent quadrate black brown patch on costa, then broad but faint and 

 rigidly perpendicular to inner margin ; t. p. line arising from a still larger black 

 brown blotch, angled outward below costa, faint and bent inward toward median 

 line below cell, slightly accentuated by dots on the veins and followed by a 

 diffuse smoky shade except at costa; s. t. line marked by a brownish blotch at 

 costa scarcely to be traced as a faint whitish line through the reddish terminal 

 suffusion; very faint broken terminal line; fringes concolorous. Secondaries 

 creamy, sprinkled with purplish especially above anal angle. Beneath very 

 heavily sprinkled with light brownish but with no traces of maculation nor of 

 discal dots. Expanse 29 mm. 



Habitat: $, Havilah, Calif. (June 8-15); ?, Camp Baldy, S. Bernar- 

 dino Mts., Calif. (June 24-30). 1 £,1 9. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



This species is very close to quadrilinearia Pack, (inqninaria 

 Hist.) but differs in the deeper tone of the ground color, the more 

 prominent costal spots and the entire lack of the discal spots on the 

 underside (our $ lacks them also on the upper-side but the 2 shows 

 a faint spot on primaries) as well as by the fact that the secondaries 

 are much less scalloped, especially in the $ sex. 



Itame coortaria enigmata var. nov. (PI. XXIV, Fig. 2). 



Coortaria Hist, was described from 1 $ ,2 ? 's from Texas and 

 the only type we have been able to locate is a 5 in the Hulst Collec- 

 tion at New Brunswick which will hold the name ; while the name 

 coortaria has generally been applied to specimens from the Eastern 

 and Middle States the type conclusively proves that the nimotypical 

 form is that of the Rocky Mts ; we have no material from Texas but 

 have matched the type very closely with material from Stockton, Utah 

 (PI. XXIV, Fig. 1) ; this form is distinguished by its bright coloration 

 with plenty of ruddy terminal suffusion, with fairly well marked red- 

 dish s. t. line and rather small and triangular costal spots; the secon- 

 daries are distinctly yellowish. In the form from the Eastern and 

 Middle States the ground color is paler, the ruddy suffusion reduced 

 with scarcely a trace of the s. t. line, the costal spots larger and more 

 quadrate, the 4th spot (subterminal) being especially increased in 

 size; the secondaries are also paler, being creamy not yellowish; we 

 propose the above name for this form; our type series consists of 

 2 S 's from New Brighton, Pa., 2 $ 's from Chicago, 111., 2 9 's from 



