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peculiar lunate mark, composed of two brownish lines, behind them a 

 blackish cloud, and nearer the apex a purplish shade. The exterior 

 margin is a little darker than the rest of the wing, with a fine dentate 

 line, and there are also some blackish dashes at the base. Secondaries 

 smoky brown, paler at base, with indications of two faint bands. The 

 under side of the primaries is dull fawn color, with the outer half 

 smoky brown, and on the secondaries is a dark brown spot at the anal 

 angle. Thorax and abdomen concolorous. i 9 . 



Exp. wings 1. 15 inch. 



San Antonio, Texas. Coll. A. J. Bolter. 



Hepialus confusus, n. sp. — Allied to H. Matthewi, Hy. Edw. 

 Ground color of primaries yellowish fawn-drab; the whole of the mark- 

 ings pale drab, edged with brown. The base is pale, and along the 

 median nervure the light shade widens out, and is connected on the 

 internal margin with other light streaks of irregular shape. A sub- 

 marginal line of the same pale shade, irregularly toothed, runs to the 

 apex, and on the costa are other patches of drab. The margin is also 

 pale between the nervures; the whole of the pale spaces edged with 

 dark brown scales. Secondaries dull fawn-drab, as is also the whole 

 of the under side, the margins being slightly tinted with dull orange. 

 Thorax and abdomen concolorous. i 9 • 



Exp. wings 1.35 inch. 



Sitka, Alaska. Coll. A. J. Bolter. 



NOCTUIDiE. 



Perigea benigna, n. sp. — Fawn color, the median space speckled 

 with greenish black scales, giving a somewhat stained appearance. 

 The lines are all dull white, almost equally dentate, the t. a. and basal 

 being parallel with each other. The t. p. is produced outwardly behind 

 cell. The sub-marginal is a little broader than the rest, and is edged 

 outwardly with pale fawn, the same color as the fringe. The reniform 

 and sub-reniform are white. Secondaries pale stone-drab at the base, 

 clouded with a darker shade on the margins. Under side wholly stone- 

 drab, the primaries darkest, with a few brownish patches along the 

 costa. Thorax and abdomen stone-drab. i $ . 



Exp. wings 0.80 inch. 



Arizona. Coll. B. Neumoegen. 



Perigea continens, n. sp. — Pale fawn color, all the lines brown, in 

 strong contrast with the ground color of the wing. Basal line obsolete 

 on internal half; t. a. oblique, slightly dentate; t. p. produced a little 

 behind the cell, thence oblique to internal margin, where the sj)ace be- 

 tween it and the t. a. line is much narrower than on the costa. Median 

 space clouded with whitish. Reniform, white, lunate; sub-reniform 



