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PSYCHE. 



[May 189-1. 



71. H. (?) lu'o-fibasis, $. The ;intennae 

 in tliis species are not so strongly pectinated 

 in tlie male as in the preceding species. 

 Tlie head and thorax are rich velvety black. 

 The nietathorax is clothed with grayish 

 hair. The upper side of the abdomen is dark 

 fuscous. The under side of the thorax and 

 abdomen are dark fuscous. The legs are 

 black The primaries on the upper side 

 are pale wood-brown with the outer margin 

 irregularly spotted with pale grayish-oliva- 

 ceous maculations. At the base of the prima- 

 ries is a very large and conspicuous velvety 

 black spot coalescing at the base with the 

 black vestiture of the thorax. This spot is 

 rudely triangular with the apex resting on 

 the cell, the side toward the thorax regularly 

 concave, the apex blunt, and tiie side toward 

 the outer margin convex. Its base rests on 

 the inner margin. It is defined above by 

 a narrow whitish line. The secondaries are 

 uniforml3' dark fuscous with the costa at the 

 base shining testaceous. The fringes are a 

 trifle paler than the body of the wing. On 

 the under side, both wings are uniformly 

 dark fuscous with the inner margins a little 

 paler. 



$. The female does not materially differ 

 from the male. Expanse, 40 mm. 



It may be remarked that the large spot at 

 the base of the primaries in some specimens, 

 which I believe to be truly referable to this 

 species, is reduced and variously modified 

 in form ; in a few specimens being almost 

 obsolete. The form shown in the plate is 

 the prevalent form, however, and may be 

 accepted as typical, seven-tenths of the 

 specimens examined by me being marked 

 exactly as is shown in the figure. 



72. H. jaculifera, sp. nov. ^. Allied 

 to the preceding species, but very distinct. 

 Head and collar dark velvety black. The 

 upper side of the thorax and abdomen are 

 dark brownish; the lower side of the thorax 

 and abdomen paler. The legs are concol- 

 orous, or very little darker than the adjacent 



parts of the body. The primaries are brown 

 with the costa and the apical one-third 

 clouded with smoky-brown. An acutely 

 pointed and narrow triangular velvety black 

 spot with its base resting on the inner mar- 

 gin is situated beyond the base. The apex 

 which points toward the costa rests upon the 

 middle of tlie cell. Beyond this spot are 

 some faint and fine transverse paler lines and 

 there is a broad and diffuse pale reniform 

 spot at the end of the cell. The margin is 

 defined by a very fine evenly scalloped dark 

 brown line. The fringes are paler. The 

 secondaries are fuscous with the base and 

 the fringes paler. On the under side, the 

 wings are pale fuscous, lighter on the inner 

 margins and on the costa of the primaries. 

 The secondaries are profusely irrorated witli 

 very minute dark scales. Expanse, 35 mm. 



B.XREiA, Walk. 



73. B. tenebrosa, sp. nov. $ . Head, 

 thorax, and upper side of abdomen dark 

 fuscous; lower side of thorax and abdomen 

 paler grayish. The legs are blackish with 

 the tarsi minutely ringed with whitish. On 

 the upper side the primaries and second- 

 aries are grayish, hoary. The primaries 

 have the costa marked by a number of 

 minute white spots on the edge. They are 

 crossed by very fine and obscure basal, 

 median, and limbal angulated transverse 

 lines. There is also a very fine angulated 

 submarginal line shaded inwardly near the 

 apex by dark reddish-brown spots and 

 succeeded before the apex by parallel fine 

 white lines, separated from each other by a 

 very fine darker line. On the middle of the 

 outer margin and on the margin just at the 

 apex is a dark brown line.ar transverse line, 

 or dash. The secondaries are traversed by 

 a curved and angulated sub-basal and median 

 fine line. The submarginal markings of 

 the primaries are continued upon the second- 

 aries, and the fringes of the secondaries are 

 pale tinged with ochraceous at the outer 



