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Distribution according to specimens National Collection, American 

 Museum, and collection Barnes : California and Washington. 

 Alar expanse. — 15-19 mm. 

 Type. — In American Museum. 

 Type locality. — Placer County, California. 

 Food plant. — Unknown. 



3. SULEIMA SKINNERANA, new species. 



(Fig. 298.) 



Palpi projecting the length of the head beyond it; sordid white 

 heavily dusted with grayish fuscous, especially on outer sides. Head 

 sordid white. Thorax grayish fuscous, the anterior margin shaded 

 with white. Fore wing to end of cell gray brown, the dark shading 

 outwardly angulate at upper outer angle of cell and curving in to 

 meet costa a middle; at middle of wing a faint broken white patch 

 reaching from dorsum almost to costa, caused by a shading of white 

 scales between the veins ; outer part of wing yellowish white with two 

 or three faint, longitudinal blackish streaks on ocellus; on costa be- 

 tween middle and apex, three pair of outwardly curved white dashes, 

 the pair from middle of costa rather long, reaching to upper outer 

 angle of cell; cilia whitish spotted with fuscous, especially toward 

 apex. Hind wing pale smoky fuscous; cilia paler, with a faint 

 darker basal band. Legs ochreous white heavily dusted with fuscous ; 

 tarsi fuscous banded with white. 



Male genitalia of type figured. 

 ■ Alar expanse. — 17-21 mm. 



Type.— Cat. No. 24829 U.S.N.M. 



Paratypes. — National Collection, American Museum, Academy 

 Natural Science, Philadelphia, and collection Barnes. 



Type locality. — Carr Canyon, Huachuca Mountains, Arizona. 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



Described from male type and 4 male and 4 female paratypes col- 

 lected in Carr Canyon, Arizona, August, 1905, by Dr. Henry Skinner, 

 and named in honor of the collector. Kearfott had an unnamed 

 specimen among his duplicates and he had given the name sMnnerana 

 to the series in the Academy of Natural Sciences ; but the description 

 had never been published. I take pleasure in validating his name. 

 In addition to the type material there is also a female from Palmerlee, 

 Arizona, in the National Collection. On account of its rubbed con- 

 dition, however, I am not including it among the paratypes. 



S. skinnerana is a distinct and easily recognized species, readily 

 separated on both pattern and genitalia from others in this genus. 

 It is possible that it is (Semasia) Thiodia ochrocepJiala Walsingham. 

 It matches the description very well. If so, Walsingham has failed 

 to note the reduced venation. 

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