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Upper side obscure yellow-fulvous, dusky along hind margin 

 of primaries nearly to cell ; three indistinct fulvous spots in sub- 

 costal interspaces, and others behind cell, but scarcely distin- 

 guishable, in some examples obsolete ; stigma rather broad, sin- 

 uous, narrowly bordered behind with dull black ; secondaries 

 either immaculate or with an obscure fulvous discal band ; fringes 

 pale fuscous on primaries, somewhat yellowish on secondaries. 



Under side pale ferruginous over secondaries and disk, hind 

 margin and apex of primaries ; the inner margin dusky, the base 

 black ; the costal spots repeated, two minute spots below these 

 nearer hind margin, and three in oblique row below cell ; all 

 these pale fulvous. Secondaries have a discal band of pale ful- 

 vous starting on middle of costal margin and curving nearly with 

 the outline of the wing to submedian ; a patch on cell. 



Female. Expands i.i inch. 

 Upper side color of male, the spots larger and distinct, pale 

 fulvous ; a fulvous dash within cell near extremity ; under side 

 paler than in male, the spots more yellowish. 



From 3^3? taken at Mt. Hood. 



In my Catalogue this species would stand next Agricola. 

 Bois. It is of broader and less produced forewing, duller color, 

 and without a dusky patch between ends of stigma and apex. 



NEW SPECIES OF DICOPIS, CHYTQNIX AND SPRAGUEIA. 



By a. R. Grote. 



DiCOPIS DEPILIS. n. s, 



? . Smooth, dark grey in color, recalling Eiitolype Rolandi, 

 but without the metallic tuft of scales on the thorax behind which 

 separates Etttolype from Dicopis. Interior line fine, black, pro- 

 jected opposite the claviform spot. Claviform with a tinge of 

 yellowish, moderate, somewhat rounded and incompletely ringed 

 with black. Orbicular, spherical, concolorous gray, with a paler 

 ring edging the faint annulus within, Reniform similar, very 

 large, medially constricted. Outer line fine, irregular, waved, 

 much removed outwardly. There is a flecking of yellowish out- 

 side of the fine sub-terminal line, which runs very close to the 

 outer median line, at internal angle. Hind wings whitish, with 

 gray shaded edging and fringes ; beneath with dot and line. 

 Head and thorax dark gray. Size of Miiralis, or perhaps a little 

 larger and seemingly stouter. Columbus, Ohio. 



The described species of Dicopis are becoming more numerous. 

 Excluding Prof. French's Dicopis Vitis, which does not belong here, 

 and is a synonym of Mamestra Distincta, we have five species. I 

 have seen the type oi Elect His \ it seemed to me near to Muralis. 



Thaxteriamis is distinguishable by the brownish primaries. 



