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ute joints partly covered by hair. Moiiiliform would express 

 their character if it were not for the fact that they are not 

 round. Primaries narrow as compared with tho.se of the male 

 and more produced at the apex. In color they are light brown- 

 ish gray. The darker fascia crosses the wing as in the male, 

 but it is far less distinct or differentiated from the remainder 

 of the wing. The secondaries are small and almost quadrate 

 in shape, the square narrowing as the body is approached. 

 The undersides are immaculate, with the neuration more dis- 

 tinctly shown than above. 



% Expands 26 mm. 

 9 Expands 20 mm. 



Described from quite a number of males and one female 

 taken at Point Barrow, Alaska, July 13, 1898. 



The genus Psychophora was proposed by Kirby (A Supple- 

 ment to the Appendix of Captain Parry's Voyage for the Dis- 

 covery of a Northwest Passage in the years 1819-20. London, 

 1824), who placed the species described, sabmi, in the genus 

 Bombyx Fab., but suggested the genus PsycJiophora for the 

 species. The species sabhii is again referred to by Curtis 

 (Appendix to the Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of 

 a Northwest Passage, etc., by Sir John Ross. London, 1835) 

 who redescribes the genus and species, Sabini is figured by 

 Curtis on Plate A, fig. 12. Curtis says : "Mr. Kirby' s descrip- 

 tion being incomplete, from his want of perfect specimens, I 

 have endeavored to supply the deficiency by giving the generic 

 characters." Dr. Packard in his Geometrid Motlis places 

 sabini in the genus Glancoptcryx, but this species seems to have 

 little if any relationship to the other species he includes in 

 Glaucoptrryx. The late Dr. Hulst placed the genus Psychophom 

 in the Oeometridic, subfamily Hydriominae.* 



Staudingcr and Rel)el, in their recent catalogue of the pala;- 

 arctic fauna, place sabini as a variety of /Mnn/ia Jriiiiiiaria CiU. 

 This seems very curious, as sabini was published in 1824 and 

 frigidaria \\\ 1857. Dr. Hulst cites P. phocata Moschler as a 

 synonym oi sabini Curtis. Phocala is figured in the Wien Mts. , 

 1862, p. 137, T. I, f. 8, but this fig. does not .seem to show 



•Trans, Am. Ent, Soc, XXIII, p, 290. 



