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(PI. XXX, Figs. 3, 4) show that we are dealing with distinct species; 

 we would call particular attention to the armature of the Aedoeagus 

 and the more extended spined area of the Valvae in Packard's species. 



Cleora sanctissima sp. nov. (PI. XXV, Fig. 6). 



$ . Palpi and front deep blackish, the latter paler in lower portion, head 

 and collar gray with a black transverse line at base of antennae and another at 

 apex of collar; thorax gray with darker metathoracic tuft, crossed mesially by 

 a faint dark line; abdomen gray with a prominent black transverse line at base 

 and segments dorsally banded with black ; primaries pale whitish gray, sprinkled 

 and shaded with smoky; t. a. line black, strongly bent outward at costa, then 

 thicker and very oblique to inner margin near base of wing, preceded by a dull 

 brownish shade line, closely approximate in lower half ; t. p. line black, faint and 

 parallel to outer margin from costa to vein 5, then prominent and inwardly 

 oblique to middle of inner margin, preceded below the cell by a fine dark line 

 and followed in all but costal portion by a dull brown shade; s. t. line evenly 

 crenulate, white, shaded broadly on both sides by smoky; an oblique dark shade 

 below apex becoming diffuse and fading away after crossing s. t. line, terminal 

 black line accentuated by dots between the veins. Secondaries similar in color 

 to primaries with black band at base of wing, an indistinct oblique median shade, 

 only distinct between cell and anal margin and a distinct black postmedian line,' 

 bent below costa and then rigidly oblique followed by brown shade as on pri- 

 maries; a distinct discal ringlet; s. t. line white, distinct, bordered with smoky 

 shades, slightly irregular but not crenulate; terminal area as on primaries. 

 Beneath whitish, sprinkled with smoky, with black discal dots on all wings and 

 terminal line as above. 



9. Smokier in color than $ with faint maculation and a much more 

 irregular t. p. line ; border of secondaries strongly crenulate. Expanse 33 mm. 



Habitat: San Bernardino, Calif. (June); Loma Linda, Calif. (Sept ) • 

 Camp Baldy, S. Bern. Mts., Calif. (July) (5). 3 $, 1 5. Types, Coll. 

 Barnes. 



Very similar to obliquaria Grt. but differing in the non-crenulate 

 s. t. line of secondaries ; it may possibly be merely a race of this species. 

 It is also very close to a species which we have identified from the 

 description as clivinaria Gn. ; the type of this species appears to have 

 been lost (Obert. Etudes de Lep. Comp. VII, 271), but a specimen we 

 figure from San Bernardino Co., Calif. (PI. XXV, Fig. 7) matches 

 Guenee's description better than does any member of this group we 

 know of from California. We figure the $ genitalia (PI. XXX, Fig. 

 5) which represents a type totally distinct from that of the preceding 

 species. 



