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markably in color and ornamentation Avith Prorasea simalis from 

 the same locality that I can give no description or comparative 

 characters to separate them except tlwxt there is decidedly more white 

 on the primaries while the expanse is a little larger. But the in- 

 sect is at once distinguished by the absence of the prominent black 

 clypeal protuberance [see N. A. E. PI. 5, fig. 2] of Prorasea. Instead 

 the clypeus is wide, smooth, nearly flat or slightly arched and brown. 

 I have both sexes of Prorasea as shown by the single and divided 

 frenulum. The new species expands 30 mil., and can be readily 

 distinguished by its structural difference from simalis. In orna- 

 mentation and general color and appearance of front and hind 

 wings the two forms are exceedingly similar. Before the oblique 

 t. a. line the basal field is more whitish and the exterior line is 

 more relieved by white shades in simulatilis. 



Pseudaglossa scobialis- ^^ s. 



This form is common in June and July about Buffalo, N. Y., 

 at sugar, and for some time I failed to separate it from Inbricalis, 

 from which it differs very decidedly by its smaller size, more blackish 

 and less lustrous color, while the second palpal joint is ringed with 

 pale and at once distinguishes the species. Black, the lines denti- 

 culate, pale ocliery, incomplete; the outer line with a more oblique 

 costal spot at its inception than in its ally. The hind wings quickly 

 distinguish scobialis, they are black and concolorous, not fuscous 

 and with effaced lines and discolorous with the primaries as in 

 Inbricalis. Abdomen blackish, finely annulate with pale. Beneath 

 the secondaries have the pale line before the margin denticulate 

 while the ornamentation is more distinct. Expanse 23 to 24 mil. 



Lubricalis swarms to light and sugar through June, July and 

 August; I have it also from California. 



Asopia planalis- j^'- s. This species is as large as cohortalis, ex- 

 panding 25 mil., and is noticeable by its pale yellowish discolorous se- 

 condaries, on which the lines are obsolete on the upper surface. 

 Beneath the extra-mesial line is continued and the surface is powr 

 dercd with reddish, concolorous with the under surface of primaries. 

 Fore wings and thorax of a pale brownish purple-red, with con- 

 colorous fringes and crossed by two narrow, widely separated, even, 

 yellow lines. Between these lines are five yellow costal dots and 

 beneath the costa is dotted to base of wing. No ocelli. This 

 species, from Colorado, is readily distinguishable by the pale yellow 

 and even lines, and the concolorous primaries, thorax and head ; 

 while the silky secondaries are without lines on the upper sur- 

 face. Mr. E. L. Graef kindly gave me my type. 



I have a third Coloradian species before me in a single fresh 

 specimen in which I believe to recognize A. himonialis of Zeller. 



