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fringes paler with a yellow line at base. Beneath, dull gray, with a 

 small dusky discal spot and a broad, diffuse, darker outer band, which 

 is complete on both wings. 



Expanse, 33 mm. = 1.32 inches. 



Hahitat. — Laggau, British Columbia (Bean)^ 



A single perfect male. The species is evidently allied to the messoria 

 series, but has broader, more pointed primaries than usual, and the 

 antennal processes are very small, the tufts of soft hair rather than 

 bristles. These characters, as well as the dentate basal, and unusually 

 irregular transverse anterior lines, will serve to characterize the 

 species. 



32. CARNEADES ONTARIO, new species. 



Ground color dull, smoky fuscous. Head with a brown transverse 

 line. Collar with a dusky ti-ansverse shade. Thoracic vestiture scaly 

 hair, rather loose, neither tufts nor patagia well marked. Primaries 

 rather powdery, median space a little darker, transverse lines blackish, 

 not contrasting. Basal line geminate, broken in the cell. Transverse 

 anterior line geminate, almost upright, irregular in the interspaces, 

 inner part much less distinct than outer. Transverse posterior line 

 geminate to the outcurve, then single, crenulate, a little drawn in. Sub- 

 terminal line indicated by a few pale scales and a vague preceding shade 

 which is fairly obvious in the costal region. A series of brown termi- 

 nal lunules, followed by a very narrow pale line at base of fringes. 

 Median shade line vaguely indicated. Claviform absent in the speci- 

 men. Orbicular indicated by a diffuse, undeiined, pale blotch. Reni- 

 form marked by a blackish, oblong blotch, partly bounded by paler 

 scales. Secondaries smoky, with a yellow tinge basally, veins and a 

 discal lunule blackish. Fringes whitish. Beneath, i^rimaries smoky, 

 secondaries gray, both powdery, with a discal blotch and a broad diffuse 

 outer shading. 



Expanse, 33 mm. = 1.32 inches. 



Habitat. — Sudbury, Ontario. 



A single male, source not noted on the specimen. It is an ally of 

 lagganwy with similar wing form and general habitus, but much darker 

 throughout, the antennae having the joints much better marked. In 

 fact, while at first sight the species are obviously similar, careful com- 

 parison shows numerous other distinctive points. 



33. CARNEADES TESTULA, new species. 



Ground color creamy gray, powdered with black. Collar with a faint, 

 smoky, transverse line. Thoracic vestiture long flattened hair, patagia 

 and tuftings only fairly evident. Primaries with all the markings 

 powdery, obscured. Basal line geminate, broken, blackish, not well 

 marked. Transverse anterior line geminate, rather diffusely marked 

 on the costa, thence slender, the two parts equally evident, almost 



