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by a diffuse brown shading with a smoky blotch between veins 3 and 4 ; distinct 

 black terminal dots. Secondaries pale, slightly sprinkled, with traces of a bent 

 postmedian line, a small dark discal dot and distinct terminal broken line. Be- 

 neath rather yellower than above, primaries less heavily sprinkled, with the 

 maculation of upper side only faintly repeated except a distinct discal dot and 

 terminal broken line; secondaries more heavily sprinkled than above with dis- 

 tinct discal and terminal dots, fairly well defined antemedian and postmedian 

 curved brown lines and traces of dark subterminal shades. Expanse 27 mm. 

 Habitat : Huachuca Mts., Ariz. (June, July) ; White Mts., Ariz. ; Tucson, 

 Ariz.; Palmerlee, Ariz. 4 $,39; Provo, Utah; Eureka, Utah; Stockton, 

 Utah. 4 $,2 9 . Types, Coll. Barnes. 



This species is closely allied to the preceding but apart from the 

 more strongly pectinate S antennae, differs in the course of the t. 

 p. line which is not angled below costa but merely sinuate; the discal 

 dots and terminal broken lines are also much better defined. 



Itame epigenata sp. nov. (PL XXIII, Fig. 5). 



Primaries pale bluish-gray, evenly and heavily suffused with smoky- 

 brown; a basal black dot; t. a. line blackish, strongly convex, arising from a 

 small dark patch on costa; median line generally rather diffuse, broad, irregular 

 and black-brown, extending generally only from costa to cubital vein, at times 

 faintly visible to inner margin near t. p. line; closely following this and at 

 times connected with it, forming its outer border, is an oblique black discal 

 dash; t. p. line originating in a blackish costal patch, strongly bent outward 

 from costa to vein 6, then angled rather sharply and parallel to outer margin 

 to vein 4 where it curves strongly inward to inner margin two-thirds from base, 

 accentuated on veins by black dots; a large rectangular costo-apical patch; ter- 

 minal broken dark line; fringes checkered. Secondaries pale, heavily sprinkled 

 with smoky brown, with small discal dot and almost unbroken dark terminal line. 

 Beneath primaries suffused with smoky with only traces of gray ground color 

 showing ; along costa ochreous-brown, the maculation of upper side partially and 

 faintly visible ; secondaries much as an upper side with discal dot more distinct ; 

 both wings with distinctly checkered fringes. Expanse 27 mm. 



Habitat: Truckee, Calif. XAug.-Oct.) 6 $,3 $. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



This species has been generally confused with wauaria L. (PL 

 XXIII, Fig. 6) but besides being distinctly larger has the t. p. line 

 much better developed than is found in the latter species which also 

 is less heavily sprinkled with smoky and shows a distinct contrast be- 

 tween the bluish costal and basal areas and the much darker terminal 

 area; there is also no pale ochreous costal shading in epigenata; we 

 figure both forms to illustrate the differences. We would note that the 

 occurrence of typical wauaria in N. America is doubtful ; it may be rep- 

 resented by packardaria Moesch. from Labrador, of which form how- 



