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ever we know nothing. Canadian specimens seem best referred to 

 bitactata Wlk. which is really closer to wauaria than our new species 

 is. Colorado specimens seem to agree with epigenata; we have several 

 specimens bred by ourselves from larvae on a Ribes species found near 

 Silverton, Colo, at an altitude of over 10,000 ft. ; we have other speci- 

 mens from Denver, Colo. ; Eureka, Utah., and Yellowstone Park, Wyo. 



Itame (diastictis) graphidaria sobriaria var. nov. (PL XXIV, 



Fig. 9). 



Hulst described graphidaria (Ent. Amer. II, 190) from 2 $ , 

 2 2 from Texas and Arizona; the only types we have been able to 

 locate are 2 2 's, one from Texas in the Hulst Coll., the other from 

 Arizona in the Brooklyn Inst. Coll. We would restrict the type to 

 the 2 specimen in the Hulst Coll. The Arizona form shows several 

 points of distinction from the nimotypical Texan race, of which we 

 have a series from the vicinity of Brownsville (PL XXIV, Fig. 10) ; 

 the primaries are more evenly sprinkled with smoky brown in the $ 's, 

 the median area not standing out more or less prominently as a white 

 band ; the cross-lines seem less irregular and are wider apart at the 

 inner margin and the white s. t. line is less distinct ; the secondaries 

 are darker above and have on the underside the two cross-lines not so 

 well developed. The 2 's are smaller but otherwise closer to the 

 Texan form than the $ 's although showing in a less marked degree 

 the same points of distinction. We propose the above name for this 

 Arizone race and have made types of 7 $ 's and 2 2 's from Reding- 

 ton, Arizona. We figure $ 's of both races. 



Catopyrrha esperanza sp. nov. (PL XXII, Figs. 5, 6). 



Palpi bright yellow tipped with purplish, front and antennal stalk purplish- 

 pink; thorax and primaries deep olive, latter with costa at base pinkish and 

 crossed by numerous dark striae ; t. a. line faint, brownish, strongly angled 

 below costa ; median shade similar and parallel to t. a. line ; t. p. line well 

 defined, pinkish-brown, sinuate, followed by a diffuse dusky shade and two 

 small blackish spots centered with white at inner margin. Secondaries similar 

 in color to primaries with the t. p. line continued and with a faint antemedian, 

 slightly waved brownish line ; fringes on both wings concolorous. Beneath 

 bright yellow, primaries with the area beyond t. p. line chocolate brown, a faint 

 sprinkling of brown in basal area and a pinkish patch above center of inner 

 margin ; secondaries with only the submarginal area chocolate, the terminal area 

 being yellow, a faint antemedian line as above ; discal dots on all wings. 

 Expanse 26 mm. 



Habitat : Brownsville, Texas. 1 $ , 1 2 . Types, Coll. Barnes. 



