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ger surface ; the fringes being wholly dusky white, mottled with 



pray. 



Exp. wings. 3.15 inch. 



Prescott, Arizona. 



Type. Coll. Hy. Edwards. 

 Plusia celsa. n. sp. 



Allied to P. %-scripta and P. U. aureum, but with the ground 

 color of the wings of a paler shade of grey. There is also a re- 

 semblance to faded examples of P. viridisigma, Grote. The lines 

 are all distinct, the spaces between them being deeply shaded 

 with blackish, especially towards the internal margin. The t. a. 

 line is whitish, edged with black, and becomes almost obsolete on 

 the median nervule. The t. p. line is nearly even throughout its 

 length, whitish, and as the t. a. line, edged with black. The sub- 

 marginal line bold, distinct, toothed as in P. viridisigma, and 

 shading into bright, pale grey on the margins. Metallic spot, 

 greenish golden, generally, though not always, divided into two 

 portions, the lower being a circular spot, and the upper triangular; 

 the base resting on median nervule. Where joined by a small 

 golden line, the spot in shape resembles that of P. Gamma, L. 

 Secondaries ochraceous, with broad dusky margin and dusky 

 shading at base. Fringe sordid white. Underside of primaries 

 dusky, of secondaries ochraceous, with discal spots strongly 

 marked ; some whitish dashes on primaries, the margin of sec- 

 ondaries dusky. Fringes, alternately white and dusky. 



Size of P. U-aureum. 



2 $. I ?. Mt. Hood, Oregon. (H. K. Morrison.) 

 I ? . Dalles, Oregon. (Hy. Edwards.) 



Type. Coll. B. Neumoegen. 



Xanthothrix Neumoegeni. n. sp. 



Whole insect, rich bright orange. Primaries with basal line 

 wanting. A median and sub-marginal band rather broad, brown- 

 ish orange, the inner one curved at the middle, and bent ob- 

 liquely towards the costa ; the outer slightly dentate, on the apex 

 a paler spot. Margins brownish orange. Fringe orange, darker 

 at extremity of nervules, which are very strongly marked, brown- 

 ish. Secondaries with small blotch at base, a lunate discal spot, 

 and the apex brownish. Under surface, wholly orange, with a 

 faint discal spot on primaries. Head, thorax, abdomen and legs, 

 wholly orange. Antenna brownish. 

 Exp. wings. 0.85 inch. 



Sta. Barbara Co., Cal. Mr. T. L. Mead. S. California, H. K. 

 Morrison. 



Types. Coll. B. Neumoegen, Hy. Edwards. 

 I have dedicated this exquisite species to my friend Mr. B. 

 Neumoegen, whose earnest labors in his favorite science are 

 worthy of the widest recognition, and to whom I am indebted 

 for much valuable assistance. 



