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that we are dealing with a distinct species; our single $ specimen 

 has unfortunately lost its abdomen. 



Plagodis intermediaria sp. nov. (PI. XXII, Fig. 2). 



Palpi ruddy purple ; head, collar and fore part of thorax deep purple ; rear 

 portion of thorax and patagia orange; abdomen ocherous, tinged with purplish 

 distally and sprinkled with black dots dorsally; primaries olivaceous-brown, 

 suffused with purple and splotched with pale ocherous in costo-median area; 

 base of wing suffused with purple, deepest along costa; t. a. line black-brown, 

 broad, diffuse, in general upright with slight angle below costa, followed by 

 umber brown shades, best defined in costal portion; a distinct but small dark 

 discal dot ; t. p. line rigid, inwardly oblique, broad, black-brown, preceded by 

 an umber brown shade and followed by a light purple shade, paling to whitish 

 at costa; at anal angle diffuse smoky shading and some umber brown shades 

 above the angle of wing. Secondaries light ocherous in basal area, shading into 

 purple-pink before the postmedian line which is blackish, faint in costal half but 

 becoming deeper in color and broader toward anal margin, parallel to outer 

 margin; below this line from vein 2 to just above anal angle is a second blackish 

 line separated from t. p. line by a pale pinkish line and bordered outwardly by 

 same color; remainder of terminal area purplish-pink, shaded with umber brown 

 along outer margin. Beneath primaries heavily suffused with purplish and 

 umber-brown, the latter color predominant between apex and angle of wing ; 

 apex itself and median area of costa pale ocher; cross-line of upper side de- 

 fined by diffuse purplish shades ; secondaries with basal two-thirds ocherous, 

 heavily sprinkled with orange ; terminal area purple bordered inwardly by a 

 repetition of the postmedian line of upper side. Expanse 27 mm. 



Habitat: Ottawa, Ont. (May 16) (C. H. Young) 2 $. Types, Coll. 

 Barnes. 



This species, received by us with the Taylor Coll. appears to be 

 intermediate between approximaria Dyar and phlogosaria Gn. The 

 former species was described from Oregon but appears to extend 

 through Canada to the Atlantic Coast, Eastern specimens (PI. XXII, 

 Fig. 1) before us being merely somewhat smaller in size than those 

 from the West Coast. Our new species, while agreeing closely in color 

 with approximaria differs in having a distinct discal dot on primaries 

 and the postmedian line of secondaries closer to outer margin and 

 parallel to same. From phlogosaria Gn., (PI. XXII, Fig. 3) the type 

 of which is figured by M. Oberthur in Etudes de Lep. Comp. VI, PI. 

 158, Fig. 1532, our species differs in the much deeper purplish shading 

 of both upper and under sides and the more diffuse nature of the 

 cross lines; we should however not be surprised if intermediaria 

 should prove to be the spring generation of phlogosaria, our few speci- 

 mens of this latter species having been captured in July and August. 



