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3 examples. N. Mexico. (Wilson Howaid). 



It is with great pleasure that I tledicate this grand addition to our 

 taiina, to my old and valued friend. 



Euprepia caja, var. utahensi"^. n. var. 



While collecting in Salt Lake City some two years ago, T took at the 

 electric lights about 40 specimens of a form, which differs so much from 

 ArJii americana as to deserve to be marked by name as a good variety. 

 In it the white bands of the primaries are invariat)ly very much wider than 

 in A. americana, and the base of the wings is in some specimens wholly 

 white with three brown spots. The head and collar are invariably much 

 redder than in the other form, while the secondaries are always pale orange 

 and never red as in americana. It is indeed a more exaggerated type 

 of coj I much whiter and paler than any European example I have seen, 

 and remarkablv constant to its characters. One specimen however has 

 the collar and sides of the thorax pale yellow. It would be interesting to 

 trace the early stages of this strongly aberrant form, and as it is abundant 

 11) .August, there ougiil to be little difficulty in so doiug. 



Halisidota laqueata. n. >|). 



Wing-- luit sli;lnly clothed with Ncales. The primaries are marked with brov/ii 

 >treaks l>etween the nervules, ami fillowing their course. Those on the ccsta, in tlie 

 cell, and along the inleinal margin are the mostsUongly marked. Thecosta is pink- 

 ish white, and al base of inlernal margin is a pale pinkhloich. The submarginal line 

 is indicated l)y brown dashes. The .secondaries are suhhyaline with the margin nar- 

 rowly diisl- y. Beneath b )ih winj;.s are sulihyaline, with the margins broadly dusky. 

 .\Mteni);e rather long with ihe shaft cream color and the pectinations ochreous. Head 

 black with pink streak at base of anlennne extending around the eyes, and to the base 

 of the palpi, which are black above, cream color beneath. Collar pale crimson in 

 tront, with the edges pink posteiiorly. Tegiilae striped with pink, the inner streak 

 l)eing rather broad. Abdomen reddish orange, shading into crimson posteriorly, with 

 the anal segment black. Sides black, with the upper edge triangular on the segments, 

 and with a broken cream color lateral streak. There are small- triant^ular black 

 l)aiches on the center of the 6th and 7th segments above. Beneath the abdomen is 

 sordid white, with the 2 anal segments black. The tibire are cream color wiihout. 

 ro-y within, the fore pair with a blackish blotch. Tarsi dull cream color. 



I 9i Texas. Coll. D. Bruce. 



Kxj)an.se of wings. 48, mm. 

 An exquisite species, widely differing from any other in our fauna. 



Nelphe Carolina, n. sp. 



Primaries sordid white, with olivaceous markings. 'I'hoeare arranged in a ser- 

 ies of spots, mostly oblong in shape, and place<l lieiween the nervures: those acros.«- 

 ihe middle of the wing and the cell being the largest, giving the wing a s(miewhat les- 

 selated appearance. The nervures are also olivaceous, the costal region being the 

 same color but of a paler shaile than the spots, of which three on the costa are quite 

 conspicuous. 'J here are cuneate olivaceous dashes lutwcen the neivuits on the mar- 

 >'in. Secondaries slightly hyaline, with the border narrowly olivaceous. Thorax 



