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DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF LITHOSID^. 



By Henry Edwards. 



NOLA ANFRACTA. n. sp. 



Ground color of primaries, olive brown, with white shades. 

 Basal space olivaceous — t. a. line broad slightly sinuate, whitish, 

 shaded with greyish on the edges, enclosing a darker line in its 

 centre. Median space also olivaceous, darkest in the centre of 

 the wing. T. p. line shaded as the anterior line, and also enclos- 

 ing a dark line in its centre. The t. p. line runs obliquely from 

 the interior margin, nearly to the apex, where it turns very sud- 

 denly upwards, and reaches the costa about the middle. It is 

 brownish at its costal end, and rests on a white blotch. There 

 are also four other triangular white blotches between its termina- 

 tion and the apex. The margin is broadly silvery white, and be- 

 tween it and the t. p. line is a pale olivaceous space. Apex with 

 a small brown dot, and there are six others at the termination of 

 the nervules. Secondaries, smoky white, with a faint discal spot, 

 and the ends of the nervules brown. Under side, smoky white, 

 with a faint discal spot darkest on costa of primaries, where are 

 faint indications of two broken bands. The secondaries are the 

 same as on the upper side. Head, palpi, thorax, tibiae and tarsi 

 slightly dusky. 



Expanse of wings, 0.80 inch. 



I $ . Yosemite Valley, California. 



Type. Coll. Hy. Edwards. 



Crocota ostenta. n. sp. 



Head and thorax, fawn color, with an orange tint — the latter 

 with the collar and patagia narrowly red. Palpi, tarsi, tibiae, and 

 under side of abdomen fawn color. Abdomen above, black, with 

 red lateral streak. Eyes large, black. Primaries, wholly dull 

 orange, paler and brighter on the costa. Secondaries with their 

 costal half bright crimson, the other half velvety black, widest at 

 the anal angle. Under side — primaries bright crimson, same color 

 as the costal half of secondaries. Secondaries the same as in the 

 upper side. 



Expanse of wings, 1.35 inch. 



I $ . Prescott, Arizona. W. Howard. 



The most showy and remarkable species of the genus. 



THE ILLUSTRATION OF EDWARDSIA BRILLIANS. 



The beautiful insect represented in the colored plate is 

 Edwardsia brillians, Neum. It was described in the Can. En- 

 tomologist, April, 1880, from a specimen captured in N. W. Texas, 

 by the late Jacob Boll. The type is in the collection of Mr. B. 

 Neumoeeen. 



