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Deva Palligera n. sp. 



Fore wings pale roseate or purplish, shaded with dark metallic 

 yellow over median space below the median vein, at internal 

 angle and on terminal space opposite the cell. Lines even, nar- 

 row, the outer line angulate below costa. Stigmata small, con- 

 colorous ; orbicular rounded ; reniform narrow, upright ; a small 

 round spot on median space just below vein 2 at its origin. Hind 

 wings whitish, with a mesial line. Abdomen pale ; thorax like 

 fore-wings. Expanse 30 mm. Sierra Nevada. Hy. Edwards, 

 two specimens. 



This form differs from our Eastern Dcva Purpiirigera of 

 Walker by the broader wings, paler color and distinctly annulate 

 spots on the median space ; the primaries have no dark irrora- 

 tions, and are notably wider exteriorly. I retain the genus 

 Deva as distinct from Plusia, on account of the thickly-scaled third 

 article of the long and curved labial palpi. The genus is inter- 

 mediate between Calpe and Plusia, and is one of several in our 

 Fauna which take that position. 



NOTES ON THE PACIFIC COAST SPECIES OF HEPI- 

 ALUS WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW FORMS. 



By Henry Edwards. 

 The so-called species of Hepialus, inhabiting the Pacific Coast, 

 are subject to the extreme tendency to variation, which appears, 

 in most of the species of Lepidoptera, to prevail in that region, 

 constancy in the general characters being the exception and not 

 the rule, both in Rhopalocera and Heterocera, and the many 

 forms of Argynnis, Colias Melitsea and Lycjena among the Diur- 

 nals, and of Alypia, Arctia, the present forms and many among 

 the Noctuids seem to direct us to the earlier stages as the only 

 means of clearly understanding their relative value as species. 

 From a pretty close study of very numerous examples of Cali- 

 fornian Hepiali, I am led to the conclusion that ultimately many 

 forms will have to be included in one species, and that it is possible 

 that H. Behrensii Stretch, H. Tacomae, Hy. Edzv., H. Sceq- 

 uoilus BeJirens, H. Montanus, Stretch; as well as H. Anceps Hy. 

 Edtv. and H. Rectus Hy. Edw., will prove to be variations of one 

 type. Subsequent investigation, alone, however, can assure us of 

 this, and I, therefore, for the present, prefer to call attention to 

 the differences which present themselves to me. For a rather 

 large series of these interesting insects I am indebted to Mr. Oscar 

 Baron of Mendocino, Cal. 



Hepialus Rectus. Hy. Edw. n. sp. (?) 

 Size of and closely approaching Hepialus (Stenopis Pack.) 

 Montanus 5/r^/(:/i!, but differing from that species by the position 



