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I $ Strawberry Valley, Siskiyou Co., Cal. Mrs. Hy. Ed- 

 wards. 



Type. Coll. Hy. Edwards. 



Lygranthoecia Walsinghami. n. sp. 



Allied to L. Separata Grote. Ground color of wings sordid 

 white, Basal shade, light cinnamon brown, darkest posteriorly. 

 Median space, clouded with crimson brown, heaviest towards the 

 costa. T. a. and t. p. lines broadly bordered with white. Behind 

 the t. p. line is a flexuous band of cinnamon brown reaching nearly 

 to the apex. Margins whitish, clouded with brown. Fringes, 

 alternately white and brown. Secondaries, sordid white, with a 

 rather indistinct discal spot, and waved, submarginal band, fawn 

 color. Fringes, white. Underside, wholly sordid white, with 

 faint indications of reddish brown submarginal band and discal 

 spot. Exp. wings, $ 0.70 inch. ? i.co inch. Klamath Lake, 

 Oregon, Lord Walsingham, to whom I have much pleasure in 

 dedicating this species. Type. Coll. Hy. Edwards. 



Adonisea pulchripennis, Grote. Var. languida. Hy. 

 Edw. 



Whole upper surface thickly mottled with blackish scales, 

 obscuring the beautiful violet crimson shade so conspicuous in 

 the typical form. The bluish transverse lines are, however, very 

 distinct, while the broken whitish band in front of the t. p. line 

 is more strongly marked, by being thrown into greater contrast 

 by the duller and darker ground color. Secondaries with the 

 base and margins broadly black, enclosing a sub-lunate whitish 

 space. Underside, sordid white. Margins of wings, except 

 costa of secondaries (which is rosy), smoky black. Discal spots, 

 large and distinct. 



Havilah, Cal., R. H. Stretch, i $. Coll. Hy. Edwards. This 

 form suggests the close relationship between Adonisea and the 

 following genus. 



Melicleptria belladonna, n. sp. 



Head and thorax covered with long brown hairs. Abdomen 

 glossy black, with small dorsal tuft at the base, dark brown, the 

 same shade as the hairs of the thorax. Primaries, rich brown, 

 darkest towards the base, and along the internal margin. The 

 discal field is whitish, with brown irrorations. The reniform and 

 sub-reniform are very large, dark brown, almost black, narrowly 

 edged with white. A blotch of the same dark color rests on the 

 internal margin, and another of triangular shape touches the 

 costa, near the apex of the wing. The t. p. line is blackish-brown, 

 very narrow, and much curved anteriorly as it reaches the costa. 

 Sub-marginal border, light brown. On the extreme margin is a 

 row of brown triangular spots between the nervules. Fringes 

 brown. 



