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are paler gray or ashen.^a black line bounding pale part of the collar su- 

 periorly. The scales of the thorax are pale tipped, the patagiae are black- 

 ish margined; the tuftings are fairly well marked, but not at all prominent, 

 and the abdominal tuftings are distinct, if not contrasting. On the prima- 

 ries all the maculation is present, and there is no very strong contrast, 

 though the median space is a little darker than the rest of the wing. The 

 basal line is geminate, black and broken. The t. a. line is also geminate, 

 its parts rather widely separated, the inner portion only a little darker, 

 the outer blackish. The t. p. Hue is indefinite for the upper part of its 

 course, but is vaguely geminate and outcurved over the reniform. Below 

 the median vein the line is defined by an inner, curved black mark, which, 

 with a little outward angle or vein, one reaches the inner margin. The 

 s. t. line is pale, fairly distinct, with two outward curves and a little inward 

 tooth opposite the anal angle. The line is preceded by a little darker 

 shading, which, in the submedian inter-space, becomes rather prominent 

 and defined, and here also there is a dusky shade following the line. In 

 other words, there is a dusky, broad streak, which is cut by the contrast- 

 ingly pale line. The s. t. space is darker on the costa, and is a little ir- 

 regularly mottled. There is a narrow, black, terminal line, and the fringes 

 are interlined with smoky and cut with pale opposite the veins; the ordi- 

 nary spots are distinct; the claviform is outlined in black and extends 

 nearly across the median space; the orbicular is round or nearly so, black 

 margined, with a bright yellowish annulus and a brown dotted center. 

 The reniform is large, kidney-shaped, not well marked outwardly, but 

 with a distinct black inner border or lunule. The secondaries are whitish 

 in the male, smoky in the female, with a discal lunule faintly marked. 

 Beneath, both wings are gray and powdery, a little smoky in the female, 

 and there is a more or less obvious outer line. Expands 27-28 mm.; 

 1. 08-1. 12 inches. 



Hab. — Calgary, June 2d and 5th. 



Mr. Dod sends me, under the number 48, one male and one 

 female, and says that it is "rare at Treacle, June." The female 

 seems a trifle larger than the male, and is a little broader winged. 

 It is also a little more sordid in appearance, and looks as if it 

 were a little greasy. The male is a bright specimen, and reminds 

 me at first sight oi Litholomia naptz. The species belongs in the 

 series with vicina, but differs from all the forms of that species 

 represented in my collection by the absence of a black basal 

 streak, though there is an indication of this in the new species 

 where the basal line turns toward the root of the wing on the 

 submedian vein. 



