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species, it possesses characters, apart from its great size, to which 

 attention may be called. It is altogether of a greyer cast, with- 

 out any of the pinkish yellow tint seen in drupiferariini. The 

 primaries preserve the resemblance to the well known species, 

 the median band of secondaries is much broader, straight, and 

 not waved on its outer edge. It terminates also on the costa 

 nearer to the base than in drupiferaruvi. The abdomen is a 

 darker grey, and the white demi-bands are reduced to small ob- 

 long blotches. The example is a ? . 



Exp. wings. 4.50 inch. 



S. Utah. 



The average size of six examples $ . ? . of Drupiferaruni, in 

 my collection, does not exceed 3.60 inch. 



FAM. ZYG/ENID^. 

 Anatolmis FULGENS. n. sp. 



Size of A. Grotei, Pkd., but differing from that species by the 

 primaries being of a bright crimson tint, without the slightly 

 orange shade observable in the well known species. The second- 

 aries are wholly black, with the exception of a very narrow costal 

 streak, rosy red. The thorax also is black, with only the an- 

 terior edge of tegulffi crimson, while in A. Grotei the thorax is 

 wholly yellowish crimson. Underside same as the upper. 



I ^ Prescott, Arizona. (W. Howard.) 



Type. Coll. Hy. Edwards. 



FAM. BOMBYCIDvE. 

 Thyridopteryx Meadii. n. sp. 



A singular little species, differing from T. epliemeriforiiiis in 

 the more slender body form, the less hairy body clothing, and 

 the whiter and clearer wings. The nervules are pale orange, in- 

 stead of brown, and there is no trace of the hairy clothing of the 

 abdominal margin of secondaries so observable in Ephoncriformis. 

 The wings are narrower in proportion, and want the shining gloss 

 of the well known species. The larval case is much more cylin- 

 drical than that of its congener, being nearly of equal breadth 

 throughout. In other words, it is not swollen in the middle, and 

 is much smaller than the average size of Epheinerifonnis. 



Exp. wings, 1. 00 inch. Length larval case, 1.25 inch. 



I $ Mohave Desert, California. (T. L. Mead.) 



Type. Coll. Hy. Edwards. 



FAM. NOCTUID^. 

 Oribates VERSUTUS. n. sp. 

 Size of O. limbatus, and resembling it in the form of its 



