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PSYCHE. 



[November 1S02. 



less pallid on the sides and basally above ; 

 spines black tipped. 



Length of body, 32.5 mm.; of tegmina, 20 

 mm. 



Described from i 9 • 



After describing the above female I 

 received a male through the kindness 

 of Mr. Brunei" which differs from the 

 female in general appearance much as 

 do the males from the females in H. 

 (A r .) Pumilus. I may add that the 

 lighter markings of the tegmina are 

 slightly more distinct and better defined 

 and the fuscous band of the wings 

 (which are pale red at the base) is de- 

 cidedly broader than in the 9 an d is 

 re-enforced by quadrate cellular fuscous 

 spots in the otherwise hyaline apex. 



Length of body, 20 mm. ; of tegmina, 

 19 mm. 



Taken by me on the side of Mt. Lin- 

 coln, Colorado, above timber, between 

 1 1000— 13000' above sea-level, Aug. 13, 

 and by Mr. Brunei" at Como, Colorado, 

 (about 9500') July 16. It appears 

 therefore to be an alpine form. 



Hippiscus (X.) cupidus sp. now 



Similar to the last but a much larger 

 species and of a robust form. Dark cinereo- 

 fuscous. Head cinereous on the cheeks, 

 blackish fuscous above and to a considerable 

 extent in front, especially on the sides of the 

 frontal costa ; summit broad, slightly tumid, 

 longitudinally rugulose, the vertical fas- 

 tigium hexagonal with distinct and some- 

 what prominent lateral walls, partially closed 

 with lower walls behind, with a median ca- 

 rina in its posterior half (which extends 

 over the summit), more deeply impressed on 

 its anterior than on its posterior half, but 



partially open to the subquadrate biareolate 

 median foveola ; lateral foveolae small, dis- 

 tinct, triangular ; frontal costa broad, rather 

 deeply sulcate throughout, but little con- 

 tracted above and hardly more than below 

 the ocellus, widely expanding at the base 

 and not there evanescent; antennae blackish, 

 paling at the base. Prothorax stout and 

 massive, the prozona distinctly tectiform but 

 tumid, the metazona plane but longitudinally 

 a little arcuate and centrallj' tumid, rather 

 deeply impressed at the; principal sulcus, the 

 whole dorsal surface verrucose and briefly 

 and longitudinally rugulose, but nowhere 

 crowded with elevations ; median carina 

 moderately high and more or less arched in 

 each of its divisions, greatly subdued between 

 the sulci ; lateral carinae distinct and rather 

 sharp, particularly at the principal sulcus; 

 lateral lobes bluntly verruculose. especially on 

 the metazona, with a large, median, glabrous, 

 subquadrate black patch having a quadrate 

 cinereous patch in the lower posterior quad- 

 rant; process of metazona rectangulate. 

 Tegmina only reaching as far as the hind 

 femora, stout, blackish fuscous, paling a 

 little distally, with distinct, small, bright 

 cinereous, triangular markings, besides cine- 

 reous stripes along the lines of the principal 

 nearly attingent veins, all having the same 

 effect as the pantherine markings common in 

 this group. Wings pale citron at base with 

 similar reticulation and along the basal half 

 of the front margin, vitreous apically with 

 black reticulation and more or less fuliginous 

 at tip, with a strongly arcuate, median, fulig- 

 inous band moderately far from the margin 

 and separated only by a citron vein from the 

 humeral vitta, which is in oblique continua- 

 tion of its outer limit, and extends to the 

 base of the wing, a blackish marginal stigma 

 at its outer limit. Hind femora very 

 broad with high carinae, cinereous with three 

 strongly oblique blackish bars narrowest and 

 darkest below, very broad above, the inner 

 and inferior surface coral red; tibiae dull 

 coral red, more or less infuscated on the 



