June-Sept. 1894. 



PSYCHE. 



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argillaceous with a rosy tint. Under side of 

 thorax and ahdomen pale ochreous. Legs 

 concolorous, with the tibiae of the anterior 

 pair dark brown. The primaries are pale 

 argillaceous with a minute dark brown spot 

 on the middle of the cell, and another at its 

 end. The margin is indicated on the inter- 

 spaces by minute dark brown spots. The 

 fringes are slightly darker than the rest of 

 the wing. From the apex a rich dark brown 

 band runs to the middle of the inner margin, 

 and is continued across the secondaries to 

 the middle of their inner margin. The sec- 

 ondaries are marked like the primaries. On 

 the under side, both wings are pale ochra- 

 ceous. The fringes are dark brown, and on 

 the margin at the middle of each interspace 

 is a minute dark brown spot. Expanse, 45 

 mm. 



primaries are obscure fuscous, with the 

 inner margin whitish, and the costa and 

 the outer margin neai' the apex broadly pale 

 ochraceous. There is a black spot in the 

 middle of the cell and a bright white spot at 

 its end, margined with blackish. There are 

 a few dark subapical browm spots and sug- 

 gestions of obscure transverse lines beyond 

 the cell. The secondaries are dark fuscous 

 with a pale lunate spot at the end of the 

 cell, bordeieu with dark fuscous. Beyond 

 the cell, there is an obscure transverse line 

 regularly curved, succeeded by a broad trans- 

 verse limbal shade and a regularly curved 

 submarginal series of blackish spots. The 

 fringes on the under side are darker than 

 the rest of the wing and verv obscm'eh' 

 checkered with dark brown. Expanse, 33 

 mm. 



96. //. cu/cscefis, sp. nov. ^ . Palpi t'ul- 

 vous. Vertex pale yellow. Upper side of 

 thorax and abdomen brown ; the tuft of 

 hairs at the extremity of the abdomen 

 white. The lower side of the thorax is pale 

 yellowish. The lower side of the abdomen 

 is pale fuscous. The legs are yellowish, 

 with the tibiae of the anterior pair pale 

 brown. The primaiies are bright fulvous, 

 very broadly' clouded about the middle with 

 dark brown, and crossed by a number of 

 obscure transverse lines. Upon the costa, 

 before the base, about the middle, and 

 at the apex, are bright yellow spots. 

 In the middle of the cell is a minute 

 very pale yellow elliptical spot, bordered 

 with black: at the end of the cell, a large 

 circular bright yellow spot; and above it, 

 a minute spot of the same color. Both are 

 bordered with darker brown. The second- 

 aries are warm fulvous, like the primaries, 

 with the costa near tlie base whitish. On 

 their outer two-thirds, these wings are trav- 

 ersed by a number of obscure transverse 

 brown lines. The fringes of the primaries 

 and secondaries are obscurely checkered 

 with dark brown. On the under side, the 



97. //. uuibyina^ sp. nov. $. This is 

 probably only a dark variety of H. sestia, 

 from which it differs simply in having the 

 wings prevalently dark chocolate-brown, 

 instead of pale fawn. 



$. The female is colored exactlj' like the 

 male. The antennae of the female are 

 simple. Expanse, $ and $.42 mm. 



98. H. piperita, sp. nov. $. Palpi pale 

 brown ; vertex, collar, and upper side of 

 thorax pale fawn. Upper side of abdomen 

 whitish. The tuft of hair at the end of the 

 abdomen is fawn. Lower side of thorax and 

 abdomen fawn, inclining on the abdomen to 

 whitish. Legs concolorous. The primaries 

 are pale fawn with the outer margin 

 produced at the end of vein four. There is a 

 small brown spot in the middle of the cell, 

 and a large brown spot at its end. From the 

 apex to the inner margin beyond its middle 

 runs a dark brown line margined by a pale 

 whitish line. Just below the apex, this line 

 coalesces with a fine and obscure submarginal 

 line, which is festooned and acutely produced 

 outwardly between veins three and fom-. 

 The outer margin of the wing bevond this 



