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Neleueania pra'graeilis C4rt., Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv.. iii. 119, 1877. 



Mr. Henshaw has determined that the specimen labelled Helic- 

 phila gracillima, type in the Cambridge collection is really the type 

 of prcegracilis and has so recorded it ; I have no doubt correctly. 



Leiicania rufostriga Pack. 



( )n the basis of a comparison made by Mr. Henshaw I omitted 

 this species from Leiicania in my recent revision and suggested that 

 my Garadrina puuctivena might be conspecific. I examined Dr. 

 Packard's type myself recently, and found that at least it was not a 

 Leiicania. It is a horribly faded specimen, and while it is no doubt 

 very close to C. pnactivena, I am not so certain that it is really the 

 same species. If material could be obtained for comparison from 

 Labrador, it would be an easily settled question. 



Mamestra artesla n. sp. — Ground color a grayish red or purple-brown, 

 over a whitish base, giving a peculiar dead appearance. Head concolorous, an- 

 tennae whitish. Thorax with tip of collar usually whitish, and with patagia and 

 disc more or less whitish powdered. Primaries with the median lines lost, ex- 

 cept on the inner margin ; ordinary spots white marked, and the entire wing 

 with a more or less mottled appearance. Basal line white, more or less broken, 

 and sometimes a little emphasized by darker scales. T. a. line very much broken, 

 yet some part of it is visible in each specimen ; usually it is a sinuate brown line 

 through a whitish shade on the inner margin and over the submedian vein ; 

 sometimes there is a diffuse white line through the cell, and occasionally this ex- 

 tends to the costa T. p. line evenly outcurved over the cell, and a little incurved 

 below ; it may consist of a single or a double series of white dots, or of a whitish 

 shade in which a very narrow black zig-zag line appears, and it is always marked 

 in brown ou the submedian vein and on inner margin. S. t. line white, more or 

 less contrasting, irregular, broader at anal angle, rarely lost in part. Claviform 

 wanting. Orbicular small, round, usually consisting only of a white annulus, 

 rarely emphasized by an outer ring of darker scales. Reniform upright or a little 

 oblique, moderate in size, broad, centrally constricted, white ringed and with a 

 whitish central line. There is a series of white terminal dots on the veins. Sec- 

 ondaries soiled whitish, veins darker and with a narrow, smoky outer shading. 

 Beneath whitish, a powdering of carmine scales over the costal and apical region. 

 a more or less obvious outer shade band and a dusky discal spot ou all wings. 

 Tarsi annulate with white. The entire body tending to purplish, but variable in 

 the direction of a yellowish ground. Expands 1.40-1.76 inches = 35-44 mm. 



Hab.— Glen wood Springs, Colorado, in August (Dr. Barnes); 

 Douglas County, Kansas, at electric light, May (Prof. Snow). 



Two males and three females in good condition are before me and 

 I have seen other examples, mostly from Colorado. I have an ex- 

 ample marked "Pennsylvania," and another marked "Illinois;" 

 but I doubt the correctness of the labels, though I cannot disprove 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXIX. JUNE, 1903. 



