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others, best marked and with a distinct incnrve across the cell, and 

 below it almost straight, and much less defined. It does not touch the 

 transverse posterior line in my specimens. The subterminal line is 

 almost exactly as in furcilla, but a little less marked. There is a dis- 

 tinct dusky lunule representing the reniform; but the orbicular is 

 absent. Secondaries iu the male whitish, with a blackish shading along 

 the inner margin; in the female smoky, with an indefinite darker 

 exterior band. Beneath smoky, paler in the male, terminal space 

 gray, the subterminal space darker, making a vague transverse band, 

 which is continued across the secondaries, on which a discal spot Is 

 also apparent. 



Expanse, 1.90 (male) to 2.30 (female) inches (48 to 58 mm.). 



Habitat. — Colorado; Texas. 



I have only a single pair of this fine species, through the courtesy of 

 Mr. Philip Laurent; hence I cau not speak as to variations. Nor have 

 1 any better or more accurate localities than above given. The species 

 is sharply distinct from its allies in size, dark color, and iuthe structure 

 of the male genitalia. 



PANTHEA PORTLANDIA Grote. 



(Plates IX, fig. i, female adult; XIV, figs. 1, 5, bead and tliorax; XV, fig. r>, male 

 anteuua; XVI, fig. 1, venation; XVII, fig. 6, leg structure; XIX, fig. 1, male 

 genitalia.) 



I'anthea portlandia Grote, Mitth., a. d. Koem. Mus., Hildesh, 1896, No. 3, p. 14. 



Ground color white or nearly so, more or less black powdered. Collar 

 with a smoky shading at base and blackish line at tip. Patagiae 

 crossed by two blackish bands and the bunching of scales and hair at 

 the base of the thorax is also black tipped. On the primaries the black 

 powdering is, as a whole, more dense along the inner margin, and 

 before the subterminal line, which is thus shaded. It also tends to 

 extend upward a little in the median space. Basal line traceable only 

 across the costal area. Transverse anterior line single, broad, black, a 

 little irregular, but, as a whole, outwardly oblique. Transverse posterior 

 line upright to veiu 4, but a little toothed on the veins; below that 

 point with an even incurve broken by a tooth on the submedian vein. 

 Median shade line well marked, as broad or broader than the others, 

 almost rigidly upright to the submedian interspace, below which it 

 runs close to and i^arallel with, but does not touch, the terminal pos- 

 terior line. The subterminal line is broadly black shaded and i)romi- 

 uently toothed. The most prominent teeth are on veins 3 and 4, and 

 in the interspaces between 5 and 0, and 6 and 7. Between these and 

 below vein 4 the line is incurved and less conspicuously dentate. 

 There is a terminal black line which tends to break up into spots or 

 lunules. The orbicular is wanting, but the reniform is iDreseut, either 

 as a black lunule or as a crescent with black margin and whitish center. 

 The terminal space is a little black powdered. Secondaries whitish, a 

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