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what aberrant, not very nearly related, and pointing in different direc- 

 tions. 



Spiniyera and pruni are most nearly allied and are evident offshoots 

 from the typical lobeliac type, which they resemble in maculation and 

 in the genitalic strnc^ture of the male. The roughening of the vestiture 

 is quite evident enough to vseparate tlie species from their allies, but it 

 is not a striking feature, and serves rather to give a ])eculiar softness 

 and indefiniteness to the ornamentaticm. 



i^pinif/crn, or harveyana., as it has been renamed, is somewhat less 

 squamose in appearance, and has all the dashes slender and neatly 

 defined. The genitalia of the male are of the loheliae type, but show 

 a departure from tlie normal in the development of a knob-like process 

 from the inferior margin. 



Pnmi, which is generally known as ciaresce^is in collections, is smaller, 

 much more roughened in vestiture, and the dashes are all obscured or 

 diffuse, particularly that opposite the anal angle. The genitalia of the 

 male differ from the normal loheline type in that both angles of the 

 scoop like clasper are prolonged into finger-like i)rocesses. 



Superann is quite uniciue in this series in its general appearance, yet 

 on close study it is apparent that we may have here an extreme devel- 

 opment of the tendency started in the ])receding species. All the 

 markings are normally present, but everything is obscured by the 

 elevated, rough vestiture, aided by a general blackish suffusion which 

 gives the primaries a marbled appearance. In a general way the 

 ground color is gray, but there is a broad smoky or blackish longitudi- 

 nal shade which extends from base to outer margin below the center 

 of the wing, and this is joined by a broad band which extends trans- 

 versely from the costa just beyond the orbicular. Another peculiarity 

 is a patch of yellow scales at the extreme base, inferiorly, that con- 

 trasts sharply with the rest of the wing. The claspers of the male are 

 but little different from those of loheliae. 



Connecta is a much reduced superans in maculation, but so modified 

 as to give (luite a diffei'ent first impression. The ground color has a 

 faint reddish shading; the longitudinal black shade is better defined 

 and much more C(mtrasting, and the dusky shade from the costa is 

 more diffuse and much less prominent. The relationship to aim and 

 funeralis is evident, as is thnt to grisea through mansueta. In the 

 structure of the male claspers we have a very interesting intermediate 

 form. It would require little change to develop into the loheliae type 

 on the one hand, to the afflieta form on another, to the (frisea type in the 

 third, and even the form of the auricoma grouj) could be easily secured. 

 The species is, therefore, a highly important and interesting one. 



Brumosa Guenee, which replaces subochrea Grote, is an extreme 

 development of the line started by spinigera. It is very dark blue- 

 gray, the markings obscure, diffuse, and mottled, and the secondaries 

 smoky luteous, but glistening. In well marked specimens all the orna- 



