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inner one obsolescent, outwardly oblique witli slight inward angle below cubital 

 vein; in this angle rests the small round claviforni, which is slightly deluied by 

 black and filled with gray ; orbicular large, oval. gray, with black border, 

 crossed by the black median shade wdiich is evenly oblique from costa to inner 

 margin ; reniform broad, creamy-white, defined by black, with dusky central 

 shading, resting basally on the t. p. line ; t. p. line squarely exserted around 

 reniform, then straight to inner margin, black, bordered outwardly by white ; a 

 small black patch at apex of wing, divided by the white s. t. line, which is 

 slightly dentate on veins 2 and 3 ; above the inner margin it is bordered in- 

 wardly with some black shading and outwardly with the same color on veins 

 2 and 3 ; some slight black shading in subterminal and terminal spaces opposite 

 the cell; an almost continuous black terminal line and dusky fringes; secon- 

 daries white, with slight smoky suffusion outwardly along the veins ; fringes 

 white. Beneath primaries smoky sprinkled with white along costa and outer 

 margin; a slight ochreous ring occupies place of reniform; secondaries largely 

 white, slight dusky sprinkling along costa. Expanse, 28 mm. 



Habitat:— Eureka, Utah. (\'III, 19.) (Spcilding). i 2. Type, 

 Coll. Barnes. 



Very distinct from any described species of Oxycncmis, but agree- 

 ing well with the genus in structural characters. lias rather the ap- 

 pearance of a Litholoinia at first glance. 



OXVCNEMIS ORIUCUL.MU.S sp. nov. (PI. II, fig. 2.) 



Head clothed with gray and black scales; tegulae with black basal and sub- 

 apical bands, tipped with white ; thorax and primaries pale gray washed slightly 

 with darker shades ; t. a. and t. p. lines wanting ; orbicular round, with white 

 annulus and dark centre and black marginal line ; from costa 1/3 from base 

 an oblique black line extends to base of orbicular, curving around and nearly 

 attaining the reniform ; this latter spot is lunate, defined on inner side with 

 black, followed by white, the central portion shaded with rusty-brown ; above 

 it on costa a short black dash ; a black oblique apical shade crossed by a white 

 subterminal line which is barely traceable over the remainder of the wing as a 

 diffuse even shade-line slightly dentate just below apical patch- a faint black 

 streak along inner margin in median area ; a black terminal dash in the in- 

 terspace of veins 2 and 3; anal vein slightly marked with black; a black terminal 

 row of lunules ; fringes dusky with paler basal and median lines ; secondaries 

 whitish hyaline at base, broadly smoky outwardly fringes white. Beneath pri- 

 maries smoky bordered with white scaling; secondaries white, suffused sli.ijhtly 

 with smoky outwardly and with traces of a dotted postmcdian line. Expanse, 

 26 mm. 



Habitat:— Emdia. Utah. (\'III, 16.) (Spalding). 2 5 9. Type, 

 Coll. Barnes. 



