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nervules. Margins of hind wings, purplish black. Beneath, the 

 marks of the upper side are repeated, except that the base of the 

 forewings is a little more orange-yellow. Antennae and head 

 black. Palpi and collar bright orange. Fore femora and tibiae 

 black, edged with orange. Hind tibiae, bright bluish black, 

 orange at the joints. Hind tarsi, black above, orange below. 

 Abdomen with second, fourth and seventh segments, bordered 

 posteriorly with fiery red. Beneath, the three anal segments are 

 banded with orange red. Caudal tuft, greenish black. 



Exp. wings, 20 m.m. 



2?. Texas. (J. Boll.) 



Type. Coll. B. Neumoegen. 



ZENODOXUS HEUCHER/E. n. sp. 



5: . Wings all golden bronze, blackish at their base, and with 

 some golden scales in centre of anterior pair. Beneath they are 

 golden yellow. Palpi pale yellow, terminal joint black. Head 

 and thorax golden brown, collar pale yellow. Abdomen with 

 second, fourth, sixth and seventh segments very broadly pale yel- 

 low, the intermediate segments sparsely covered with yellow hairs. 

 Under side of abdomen blackish. Caudal tuft brownish black. 

 Femora blackish. Tibise and tarsi alternately ringed with black 

 and pale yellow. 



$ . Smaller than the ? , with the abdominal rings a little 

 narrower. 



Exp. wings, $ 13 m.m. ? 18 m.m. 



6$ 2 $. H. E. On flowers of Heuchera rubcscens Torr. 

 Lake Tahoe, Calif. 



Zenodoxus Potentill^. n. sp. 



In this form the wings are wholly bronze brown, darker than 

 in the preceding species, with a fiery red reflection, and beneath 

 the basal two-thirds of wing is wholly fiery red. Antennae dark 

 yellow. Tibiae and tarsi are fiery red, banded with black. The 

 bands on the abdomen are a little darker yellow, but in other re- 

 spects it resembles the previous species. 



Exp. wings, 18 m.m. 



\ $,. 2 $. Lake Tahoe, Cal. San Rafael, Cal. (H. E.) 

 With Z. JicuchercE. 



Type. Coll. Hy. Edwards. 



Zenodoxus Canescens. n. sp. 



The general color of this very curious species is heavy gray. 

 The fore wings are quite opaque, ash grey, flecked with a few 

 black scales. Hind wings vitreous in their central portion, nar- 

 rowly opaque along costal and abdominal margins, ash grey. 

 Under side of wings same as above, with a few black dashes in 

 centre of primaries. Antennae, palpi, thorax, abdomen and legs 

 wholly ash grey, with a few black speckles irregularly placed. 



Exp. wings, 21 m.m. 



2 ? . Colorado. (C. V. Riley.) 



