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area suffused with bluish white towards apex and with a series of 
fine black lunules just before termen; the extremities of veins with 
black streaks intersecting the cilia which have a fine whitish line 
at base. Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with brown, 
the veins beyond the lower angle of cell slightly streaked with 
brown; a medial, two postmedial and two subterminal black strie 
at inner margin; some dark strive just before termen and a fine 
terminal line; cilia white; the underside with the costal and ter- 
minal areas irrorated with brown, a dark bar from middle of costa, 
double postmedial series of slight points, and series of points just 
before termen. 
Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, California, 1 ¢ type. Hap. 32 millim. 
6347. Pectes acutangula, n. sp. (Plate CLX XVII. fiz. 5.) 
¢. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with white; palpi white 
in front and with some black at sides; frons with lateral black 
spots; antenne with the basal joint white and white bars on shaft; 
neck with black ring ; tegule with brown lines at middle and tips; 
patagia with curved black streak; pectus white; tarsi fuscous 
ringed with white; abdomen red-brown mixed with white, the basal 
segment whitish, black segmental lines except on basal segment, 
the ventral surface white with subventral series of small black spots 
and two red-brown streaks. Fore wing grey suffused with purple- 
brown; subbasal line represented by white strie from costa and in 
cell; some white at base and a fascia below the cell extending to 
the antemedial line, which is double, black filled in with white, 
obsolescent towards costa, angled outwards below costa, then ex- 
curved and strongly angled inwards at vein 1; medial area suffused 
with white except on costal area and just beyond antemedial line ; 
orbicular and reniform white defined by brown, the former small, 
round, with rufous point in eell, the latter with rufous striga in 
centre; medial line bent outwards beyond the cell, then bent in- 
wards and dentate; postmedial line double, black filled in with 
white, obsolescent towards costa, bent outwards below costa, oblique 
to vein 6 where it is acutely angled outwards, then incurved and 
sinuous, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line 
indistinct, whitish, irregularly dentate, crossed by black streaks 
above and below vein 6, the lower extending almost to postmedial 
line; the apex white; a black point before termen below apex 
followed by a series of lunules slightly defined by white; a fine 
brown terminal line; cilia chequered with white towards apex and. 
with fine white lines at base and near tips. Hind wing brown, the 
interspaces of basal half whitish; a brown pestmedial striga at 
inner margin and two towards tornus; a series of slight brown 
strie just before termen; cilia white with brown spots at base; 
the underside white, the costal and terminal areas suffused with 
brown, a sinuous brown medial line and double postmedial series of 
minute streaks on the veins. 
Hab. Bamamas, Nassau (Bonkote), 2 ¢ type. Exp. 30 millim, 
