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Arizona, May. Received from Mr. F. Haimbach without 

 more definite locality. 



This species is close to vesta Edw. but the markings are 

 much fainter and different in color, those of vesta being 

 orange-fulvous. The characteristic row of orange fulvous 

 spots so conspicuous in vesta is replaced in arida by a faint line 

 of spots. The silvered spots on the underside of the second- 

 aries are also characteristic. 



Erythroecia hebardi n. sp. 



In volume nine of Sir George Hampson's Catalogue of the 

 Lepidoptera Phalaenae, p. 57, there is erected the new genus 

 Erythroecia with the type species snazis H. Edwards. He de- 

 scribes a new species under the name rhodophora which is 

 figured on plate 138, no. 4. The type locality given is Capitillo, 

 Guatemala. 



Last summer Mr. Morgan Hebard captured a species of 

 Erythroecia at Hot Springs, \'irginia, August 15th, at light, 

 two perfect male specimens. 



This appears to be a much more robust species than 

 rhodophora and the primaries are much more obscured by red 

 (crimson) and the ground color of the wings is yellow, almost 

 orange. The orbicular and reniform do not show as in 

 Hampson's figure. The Virginia species expands 34 mm. 



It is possible that this may be a very good species, a topo- 

 morph or only a variety of rhodophora but additional material 

 if. needed to establish their true relationship. If they are 

 the same species the distribution as at present known appears 

 very strange. 



Autographa olivacea n. sp. 



$ . Head and thorax gray mixed with white hairs; tcgulae gray; 

 thoracic crest gray-white at tips; abdomen and legs gray; crests 

 brown tipped with gray. Fore wing grey tinged with whitish olive, 

 the medial area below the cell shining dark olive, extending from 

 the apex and covering the outer third of the wing and extending 

 two-thirds the distance to the inner margin ; orbicular faintly indicated 

 and not silvered; a very small silver stigma, linear and having a faint 

 incurved point at the outer end; hind wing with a greenish tinge. 

 Expanse 39 mm. 



Type one specimen sent to me by Mr. Eugene O. Mur- 

 mann, taken at Los Angeles, California, August, 1916. 



This .species resembles ampla Walk, but may be readily 

 differentiated by the olive shade of the outer half of the 

 primary wing. 



The types of these species are in the collection of The 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



