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Adela septentrionalis and another species of a bronzy hue. 

 Towards suppertime we went ahnost to the summit again 

 where more Syneda and the new Melicleptria (7 specimens) 

 were taken. No Sphinx were taken at night, but Plusia cali- 

 fornica was extremely abundant on the flowers of Eryshmun. 

 On the morn of April 6th we descended into Pine canon where 

 more Adela and Annaphila were taken as well as Lyccena 

 acmon, piasus, and behrii and a few Thecla dumetornm. One 

 Papilio daunus was seen. In the evening a hunt for Hepiahis 

 was undertaken in the thick brush without a light. A minute 

 species, one specimen of H. hedoides var. leyizii was taken in 

 the twilight flying close to the ground. Hardly anything but 

 a few Odonata, which have not, as yet, been worked up, were 

 taken the next and last morning of our outing. While near 

 the summit examining a few Jimiperus califoryiicus trees, it 

 was observed that their branches were attacked by a small 

 micro-larva, some of which were taken home where they have 

 not yet disclosed imagos. 



Taken on the whole, it must be said that Mt. Diablo is 

 a rather poor collecting ground, Lepidoptera being either 

 common .species or scarce. We were in hopes of taking 

 LyccEtia sonoreiisis in the canons, but here we were entirely 

 disappointed. Lyccena sonorensis was reported by Strecker in 

 in his Synonymical Catalogue as being found in this particular 

 locality, but we made a fair survey of the mountain at the 

 proper season without seeing any signs of it. 



Helicleptria fimbria (Behr ms.) n. sp. F. X. Williams. — Primaries — 

 Golden brown, becoming darker towards the blackish t. a. and t. p. lines 

 which enclose a wide, yellowish median band, bluntly edentate superiorly 

 on M2 and less edentate but more sharply so inferiorly. Median band 

 with a few small brown spots and a broken median brownish shade, 

 plainest on costa and inner margin ; median band widest on M2 at its 

 middle and costa and narrowest on inner margin where it spreads out 

 narrowly towards the base. Discal spot obscure ; terminal lunules 

 blackish ; fringes tipped with lighter golden brown. Secondaries brassy 

 black ; median band creamy white not extending to inner margin, widest 

 at middle where it is rounded superiorly and invaginated posteriorly by 

 discal lunule ; fringes white ; head and thorax brown ; abdomen brassy 

 black with a few whitish hairs ; tip of abdomen light coffee. Underside. 

 Primaries — outer third iron gray, median band white and bifurcated on 



