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line on the secondaries would refer to the subterminal blotches which 

 at times are rather well defined and tend to unite to form a more or 

 less continuous shade. We have several specimens from the Atlantic 

 States and Canada, one of which we figure (PI. XXIX, Fig. 6), which 

 fit in in a general sort of way with the description, being ruddier, 

 rather blurred in maculation and heavily sprinkled with fine dark 

 atoms ; to these we apply the name hamaria for the present ; as we are 

 unable with our limited material to find any point of distinction in the 

 genitalia of these two forms we treat them as color variations of one 

 species. 



Having separated out duaria Gn. and its form hamaria Gn. from 

 the material before us we have found that there are still two other 

 forms which, apart from certain differences in maculation, seem to 

 show constant, slight differences in the S genitalia; for this reason 

 we are inclined to regard them as good species and describe th-m here- 

 with : 



Metarranthis septentrionaria sp. nov. (PI. XXIX, Figs. 2, 3). 



Palpi, front and base of collar ruddy-brown with a whitish line between 

 the antennae; thorax gray-brown; primaries bluish-gray, heavily and evenly 

 sprinkled with blackish atoms ; t. a. line rather broad, blackish, evenly rounded, 

 less bent in at costa than in duaria, followed by a distinct light brown shade; a 

 prominent black discal dot; t. p. line dark, slightly crenulate, especially below 

 costa, but less so than in duaria, gently bulging opposite cell and preceded by 

 a broad light brown shade which occupies most of the space between the discal 

 dot and the line and together with the shade following the t. a. line restricts 

 the pale portion of the median area to a small central stripe; the area beyond 

 t. p. line is even gray, at times slightly paler next the line with traces of the 

 customary dark blotch between veins 3 and 4 and with a faint oblique dark 

 apical streak; fringes slightly pinkish-shaded. Secondaries with a curved dark 

 t. p. line preceded by brown shade as on primaries ; a dark discal dot ; terminal 

 area as on primaries with at times traces of dark subterminal shades; in the 

 $ the wings are considerably less angulate at vein 4 than in duaria being inter- 

 mediate in this respect between warneri and duaria; in the 9 the wings are 

 much as in duaria. Beneath the veins are yellowish, the lines of the upper 

 side rather well-defined and the whole surface heavily sprinkled with ruddy- 

 purple and black atoms. Expanse $ 31 mm., 9 35 mm. 



Habitat: S Beulah, Man. (June 21) ; Aweme, Man. (May 29, June 18) ; 

 9 Winnipeg, Man. (June). 3 3,2 9. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



Apart from the considerably smaller size this species differs from 

 duaria from the fact that the median area, due to the brown shading, 

 seems to stand out as a dark band in contrast to the paler basal and 

 terminal areas whereas the reverse is the case in duaria; there is also 



