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tinged with ochreous-brown along costa ; secondaries pale sprinkled with 

 smoky-brown, darlcer outwardly, with discal spot and distinct median hand and 

 traces of a sidjterniinal one ; fringes as on primaries. Expanse. 27 mm. 



Habitat: — Palmerlee. Arizona ( Biederman). i $. Type, Coll. 

 Barnes. 



Easily recognized by the broad yellow submedian line; the anten- 

 nal tuft is placed about the middle of the antennae and extends over 

 more segments than is usual in the genus ficiiia; the palpi and tibial 

 process agree with those of the other members of the genus however. 



Rkxi.\ M(jRTi'.\Li.s sp. nov. Plate II, fig. 23.) 



9. Thorax and primaries deep piirple-brown, latter with the veins slightly 

 defined by light-brown scaling; maculation variable in distinctness; t. a. line 

 strongly oblique, straight from costa to cubital vein, incurved in the submedian 

 fold; orbicular small, round, pale yellow, partially defined by black; reniform 

 large, lower portion bent outward, giving the whole a rather comma-shaped 

 appearance, filled with pale yellow, with dark central line and slight dark mar- 

 ginal shading; midway between orbicular and reniform a rather rigid dark 

 shade line, indistinct at costa, extends straight across the wing ; t. p. line black, 

 bent outward below costa, then slightly waved but generally straight in course 

 to inner margin, sometimes somewhat bent inward in submedian fold ; s. t. line 

 distinct, yellow, bent well outward between veins 2 and 5, otherwise straight, 

 rigid, slightly shaded with dark brown outwardly ; series of prominent terminal 

 black lunules ; fringes dusky with a pale broken terminal line. Secondaries 

 dusky with a distinct pale complete subterminal line and traces of a dark median 

 line and discal dot. Beneath primaries smoky, sprinkled with ochreous along 

 costa and with the commencement of a pale subterminal line distinct in costal 

 portion of wing; secondaries pale, sprinkled with brown, darker outwardly, with 

 dark median line and pale subterminal one; dark discal dot and broken terminal 

 line on both wings ; fringes dusky, paler outwardly. Expanse, 29 mm. 



Habitat: — Palmerlee, Ariz. (Biederman); So. Ariz. (Poling); 

 lluachuca Mts., Ariz. (Aug. 8-15). 7 9 9. Type, Co'l. Barnes. 



We thought at first this might be the 9 of the preceding species, 

 but although generally similar there are certain points which woidd 

 warrant the supposition that we arc dealing with two distinct species ; 

 in the present species the t. a. line is strongly oblique, the reniform 

 large and bent, and the sul)terminal line with a prominent outward 

 bend in the middle, none of which characters hold with subtenninalis; 

 further the distinct pale subterminal line on the secondaries of this 



