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indistinct white crenulate s. t. line, crossed by a faint subapical smoky shade 

 and partially defined outwardly by smoky shading; dark terminal lunules more 

 or less joined into a line. Secondaries with a distinct discal ringlet, a rather 

 broad and rigidly oblique antemedian line, only visible between anal margin and 

 cubital vein ; a dark postmedian line from anal margin to vein 6, oblique, with 

 traces of an angle just below vein 6, followed by a white line and diffuse dark 

 shade ; traces of an s. t. line as on primaries ; border of wing slightly crenulate 

 and edged by a fine dark line. Beneath unicolorous glistening pale gray with 

 traces of discal ringlets on all wings. Expanse 34 mm. 



Habitat : Jemez Spgs., N. M. (Sept. 15-30) ; Glenwood Spgs., Colo. (Aug., 

 Sept.). 4 $,3 9. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



The species is very close to cxcclsaria Stkr. from Washington 

 State, but is smaller, with finer cross-lines, more pronounced ringlet on 

 disk and more crenulate s. t. line; the ringlet would also separate it 

 from anastomosaria Grossb. which has merely a dot on the disk of 

 secondaries. The S tibiae are without hair pencils which would 

 throw the species into the genus Selidosema Hbn. as used by Hulst ; we 

 doubt greatly however the value of this hair pencil for generic separa- 

 tion and prefer for the present to use the genus Cleora in a more gen- 

 eral sense than it was employed by Hulst. We figure the $ genitalia 

 on Plate XXXI, Fig. 1. 



Cleora vernata sp. nov. (PI. XXV, Fig. 5). 



Thorax gray with a darker line across collar; primaries whitish, suffused 

 with smoky brown and shaded with light brown above inner margin ; t. a. line 

 broad, smoky, strongly bent out and angled below costa, then gently oblique to 

 inner margin one third from base of wing, preceded by a smoky subparallel 

 shade, diverging at costa ; median shade equidistant between t. a. and t. p. lines, 

 in general parallel to t. a. line, forming an angle at the discal dot and slightly 

 waved above inner margin ; t. p. line dark, rounded below costa, then gently 

 irregular, slightly bent in below cell and again in submedian fold, edged out- 

 wardly by a narrow whitish line, followed by a broad smoky shade, filling most 

 of the subterminal space ; s. t. line white, diffuse, irregular, most distinct in 

 central portion where it forms several white lunules ; terminal space shaded 

 with smoky with a dark subapical oblique shade ; dark crenulate terminal line. 

 Secondaries similar in color to primaries with an oblique dark median shade, 

 not attaining costa, followed by an elongated discal dot ; t. p. line broad, blackish, 

 rigidly oblique from inner margin to below vein 6 where it curves upward to 

 costa, becoming obsolete ; this line is bordered outwardly by a fine white line 

 and dark shade as on primaries ; s. t. line and terminal area much as on primaries. 

 Beneath silky, whitish, with the maculation of the upper side partially visible. 

 Expanse 32 mm. 



Habitat: Glenwood Spgs., Colo. (May 1-7). 3 $. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



