This is the species recorded by Mr. Morrison as flava from Texas, 
and it is therefore doubtful whether fava really occurs there—as simgula 
extends to Arizona however, where flava is also found, the latter may 
well be an inhabitant of Texas. 
The harpes of the male are very long and narrow, terminating in a 
somewhat acute tip. The clasper is corneous, long, stout, rather ab- 
ruptly bent and suddenly narrowing toward tip, terminating in a short 
beak-like point. 
P. flavidens Grt. Bull. Surv., 5, 205, Psewdanarta. 
Head, thorax and primaries dark ashen or blackish fuscous. Thorax sprinkled 
with black and gray, the patagiz black margined. Primaries with median space 
darker, s. t. space decidedly grayish and paler than the rest of the wing. Basal 
space somewhat evenly dark gray with a small brown spot near t. a. line. Basal half 
line geminate, distinct, black. T. a. line very even, curved outwardly, distinctly 
geminate, the inner line fainter, the outer black. T. p. lime geminate, very even, 
fine, outwardly curved over reniform which the line touches inferiorly, then obliquely 
incurved to the internal margin. A pale shade beyond reniform through thes. t. 
space, gradually darkening to the terminal space which is evenly dark, relieving the 
very irregular pale s. t. line. Orbicular large, oblique, narrowly black ringed grayish 
powdered. Reniform large upright pale ringed, and with a pale central line. A very 
distinct black shade line from costa, close to reniform, and between it and orbicular, 
then parallel with and close to t. p. line to the internal margin. Secondaries orange 
yellow, with a broad black outer border, costa narrowly black. Beneath, primaries 
pale yellow, with a broad black outer margin, the disk suffused with blackish. 
Secondaries as above, the costal region powdered with deep brick red. 
Expands, 1.10—1 20 inches, 27.5—30 mm. 
Habitat—Colorado. 
This species seems rather common locally, and differs from all the 
other species first in its larger average size, in the very even median lines, 
the pale s. t. space, and in the distinct black median shade line. 
The genitalia of the male have the harpes moderately wide, the tip 
rounded and slightly oblique. The clasper is corneous, broad at base, 
suddenly bent beyond its middle, and then moderately long and distinctly 
curved—differing thus pbsoge rout from simgula without any definite 
change of type. 
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Dr. Horn is studying He/erocerus and Ochthebius. 
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Capt. Casry has in hand a Revision of the Pederinz. 
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Mr. Roserts is making a very complete collection of water beetles, 
and promises some results in the Halplide. 
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‘‘VYE Epitor” is getting his Noctuid MS. into shape, and a mono- 
graph of Agrofs will probably be ready for press early in October. 
