28 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January, 



Mr. Dod sent me two females and said they were the only ones 

 taken in 1894. Both specimens are females, and represent an 

 obscure species which I had previously seen, but had been afraid 

 to name from lack of sufficient material. I now believe it to be 

 a good one, and finds its allies near centralis, though it bears at 

 first sight the appearance of a very much faded and poor castanea. 

 There are several species belonging near the present, that yet 

 remain to be described, and three of them at least are in my own 

 collection at the present time. 



Hadena (Xylophasia) contradicta n. sp. PI. xv, fig. 13.— Ground color a 

 rich, rusty, red-brown. Head and thorax immaculate. The primaries 

 have the median and terminal spaces like the thorax, of the darker ground 

 color, while the basal and subterminal spaces are distinctly paler, with a 

 more yellowish cast, and the wings are thus somewhat contrastingly col- 

 ored. The ordinary lines are all distinct. Basal line black, with a little 

 inward loop to the base of the wing, above the submedian vein. T. a. 

 line broad, black, a little irregular, outwardly obhque, but a trifle curved; 

 preceded inwardly by a somewhat marked paler shade. T. p. line dis- 

 tinct, black, even, abruptly outcurved over the cell, and then evenly ob- 

 lique to ihe hind margin. S. t. line irregular, marked by a following 

 dusky shade, which becomes more prominent and broader, acutely in- 

 denting the line opposite veins 2 and 5. Through this space the veins are 

 black marked, while preceding the dusky shade there is a distinct paler 

 line. There is a series of small, dusky, terminal lunules, and the fringes 

 are dark cut in the interspaces. Claviform very small and pale, very 

 narrowly blackish ringed. Orbicular round or nearly so, without distinct 

 defining line, and of the pale ground color. The same may be said of 

 the reniform, which is of moderate size and upright; only a little kidney- 

 shaped. A fairly distinct median shade crosses the median space out- 

 wardly, closely margining the inner edge of the reniform, and from that 

 point running parallel and close to the t. p. line. Secondaries pale, 

 whitish with a reddish suffusion, which becomes quite marked in the 

 fringes. There is a distinct, blackish, extra-median line, and the terminal 

 shading as well as a small discal lunule. Beneath, the wings are reddish 

 powdered; the primaries a litle dusky centrally and both wings crossed 

 by a very prominent, black, outer line. Expands 42 mm.; 1.68 inches. 



Hab. — Calgary, June 22, "Treacle." 



Mr. Dod says this is a unique, and it certainly is a very pretty 

 species and different from anything that I have seen. It is best 

 placed in the group vultuosa, but has some affinity with the next, 

 or finitima group. It is, however, more broadly and contrast- 

 ingly colored than any other species in this series, and should, 

 therefore, be rather easily recognizable. 



