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scales. The roniforui is large, kidney-shaped, outlined by black scales 

 and with a blackish center. Secondaries smoky, whitish toward tlie 

 base, distinctly darker in the leinales than in the males. Beneath 

 whitish in tlie jnale, very strongly black powdered on the i)rimaries. lu 

 the leniale both wings arc black powdered, and in all cases there is a 

 more or less well marked outer black line and a black discal spot. 



Expanse, 1.50 to 1.80 inches (37 to 45 mm.). 



JIahitat. — Southern States; Florida; Texas; Archer, Florida, in 

 March; Texas in March and April (?); Colorado {1); Kew Mexico (?). 



This is one oi" the few species that is confined to the southern part of 

 the United States. There have been some records from Colorado and 

 New Mexico; but it is questionable whether these are correct. Mr. 

 Butler referred this species to brumosa, but as I have already shown 

 erroneously. Tlic localities, therefore, that have been recorded for 

 hruniosa can not be held as fitting to this species. In between twenty 

 and thirty specimens before me not one of them conies from any north- 

 ern locality; though this does not exclude, of course, the possibility of 

 its occurring there. The species is quite (constant, rarely becoming 

 so dark as to make it possible to confuse it with a rubbed ((Jflu'tu. In 

 a general way the impression is given of a somewhat blotchy appear- 

 ance, a. dusky shade occurring over the reniform, another one just out- 

 side of the basal space at about the middle of the wing, a third just 

 above the anal angle, and a fourth 0|)posite the cell beyond the trans- 

 verse posterior line. The head is of good size, the front convex but not 

 bulging, the palpi are rather small, although they reach to the middle 

 of the front. The anterior legs of the male are heavy, the femur very 

 large and much dilated, rather suddenly narrow toward the tip and 

 grooved to receive the short, stout tibia, in which the epiphysis is 

 attached below the middle and reaches to the tip. The tarsus is short 

 and stout. The harpes of the male are moderate in length, that por- 

 tion forming the clasper being square at the tip. The process at the 

 upper angle is stout, moderately curved and pointed at tip; that from 

 the upper margin is slender, quite long and a little curved. Altogether 

 the species is a well marked one. 



ACRONYCTA MARMORATA, new species. 



(PlatoH XIII, lij^. 3, female adult; XXI, fig. 22, male genitalia.) 



Ground color white, with a slight yellowish suffusion. Head mottled 

 by black scales. Collar with a broad black band just below the tip 

 and the tip black marked. The patagiae with a black submargin. 

 Primaries with all the markings contrasting and black, giving the 

 wing a marlded appearance, iiasal line geminate, black, reaching to 

 the basal streak. Transverse anterior line geminate, black, outciirved 

 between the veins, so as to form almost a series of loops, both parts of 

 the line being equally distinct. The median shade line is distinct, 

 black, outwardly bent from the costa to the reniform, then forming a 



