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ground ; edge of termen black, broken below apex, at middle and at 

 tornus by white spots ; cilia leaden fuscous ; white dorsal patch and 

 costal markings repeated on under side of wing. Hind wing dark 

 smoky brown; cilia shining white with dark basal band; on under 

 side basal half of wing whitish. Legs Avhite; outer sides dusted 

 with dark grayish fuscous. 



Male genitalia of type figured. 



Alar expanm. — 12-14 mm. 



Type. — In collection Barnes. 



Paratypes. — Cat. No. 28012, U.S.N.M. Also in American Museum 

 and collection Barnes. 



Tyjm locality. — Pyramid Lake, Nev. 



Described from male type and fi^^e male paratypes from type 

 locality. 



Close to felicitana and with similar genitalia. Easily distin- 

 guished by the characters given in the key. 



2. HEMIMENE FELICITANA (Heinrich) 



(Figs. 116, 292) 



Pammene felicitana Heinrich, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 25, 1923, 

 p. 120. — Forbes, Memoir 68, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., 1924, p. 389. 



An eastern species similar to ocliferia but with much brighter 

 metallic markings on forewings. 



Male genitalia figured from type in American Museum; female 

 from paratj^pe in National Collection from Oak Station, Pa. (Mar- 

 loff, "June 19-07.") 



Distribution. — Pennsylvania, Quebec. 



Alar expanse. — 13-14 mm. 



Type. — In American Museum. 



Type locality. — Montreal, Quebec. 



3. HEMIMENE SIGNIFERA, new species 



(Fig. 290) 



Antenna fuscous. Palpus and face fuscous ocherous. Head fus- 

 cous ocherous, darker at sides. Thorax semilustrous leaden fuscous. 

 Forewing blackish (or dark grayish) fuscous; on mid dorsum a 

 conspicuous nearly square white spot reaching up to cell ; costa with 

 a faint antemedian and four postmedian pair of obscure whitish 

 ocherous germinate marks ; ocelloid patch obscure, consisting of four 

 or five black streaks interspaced with ocherous scaling and between 

 two dull vertical metallic bars; edge of termen black; cilia leaden 

 fuscous. Hind wing smoky fuscous; cilia pale fuscous with a dark 

 basal band. Underside of fore and hind wings concolorous, pale 

 smoky fuscous. Legs pale ocherous fuscous. 



