434 niOCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEU:>:. vouxxii. 



not contrasting, the included space in the geminate median lines 

 lightened by yellow. Basal line brown, geminate, best marked by the 

 included yellow shade. Transverse anterior line almost upright, 

 broadly outcurvcd in the interspaces. Transverse posterior line 

 geminate, outer part faint, even; inner crenulate, brown, as a wliole 

 evenly and not greatly outcurved over the reniform, evenly oblique 

 below. Subterininal line irregular, broken, paler, marked by a slightly 

 darker preceding shade, the terminal space marked with dusky in the 

 Acins. Median shade line narrow, blackish, a little irregular, as a 

 whole a little outcurved. A series of black terminal lunules, beyond 

 which is a yellow line at the base of the fringes. Claviform barely 

 indicated. Orbicular small, round, outlined in yellow. Reniform 

 moderate in si/e, kidney-shaped, rather narrow, outlined in yellow, 

 filled with blackish. Secondaries yellowish at base, becoming smoky 

 outwardly, veins and a discal lunule also smoky. Fringes yellow at 

 base, whitish at tip, with a smoky central line. Beneath dull yellowish, 

 powdery, primaries with a diffuse blackish oval, representing the pale 

 outline of the reniform above; secondaries with a small black discal 

 lunule. 



Expanse, 37 mm.= 1.4S inches. 



KaMtat. — High Sierras, California. (Dr. Dyar). 



A single male in fair condition, iS^o. 11277. The species has no very 

 close allies, but may come at the end of the bostonieiisis, or at the head 

 of the messoria series. In either case it is readily distinct. 



Tovoya, according to Dr. Dyar, is the Indian name for the north dome, 

 near where this insect was taken. 



CARNEADES MESSORIA Harris. 



In this species all the normal maculation is well written, and all the 

 usual spots are evident. Basal, transverse anterior and transverse 

 l)OSterior lines are obviously geminate, and while the inner part of the 

 transverse anterior and outer part of the transverse ^^osterior line are 

 less obvious, and may be even somewhat obscure, there is never any 

 doubt of their actual presence. The median shade is equally obvious 

 in most cases, and is sometimes as well marked as the median lines, 

 tliough always a little diffuse. It is sometimes almost upright, but as 

 a rule is a little outwardly oblique from the costa to the inferior margin 

 of the reniform, and from that i)oint is nearly upright to the inner mar- 

 gin, which it reaches close to the transverse posterior line. The 

 transverse anterior line is a little oblique outwardly, with three main 

 interspaceal outcurves, of which that in the submedian interspace is 

 broadest, but as a rule not quite so much exserted; that below the 

 submedian vein is always most bent outwardly. The transverse pos- 

 terior line is very evenly bent over the cell, and is then oblique below, 

 hardly incur v^ed in any case, unless exceptionally. The inner part of 

 the line is crenulate, and the outer portion crosses the tips of the 

 Tjoints, leaving inclosed a series of lunules of the ground color or a 



