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verse anterior line marked as a gray line througli the siibmedian 

 interspace only. Transverse posterior line marked on the costa and 

 traceable over the cell by the contrasts between the brown and gray, 

 lost below that point. Subtermiual line distinct, gray, marked by a 

 preceding smoky costal shade, and thereafter by the smoky terminal 

 space and a preceding, continuous, smoky shade. A narrow, lunulate, 

 black terminal line, followed by a yellow line at base of fringes. Clavi- 

 form very large and broad, reaching to the middle of the wing. 

 Orbicular round, of good size, broadly ringed with blue gray. Eeuiform 

 large, broad, kidney-shaped, broadly ringed with gray. The median 

 vein is prominently gray. Before the orbicular is a triangular black 

 spot, and the space between the ordinarj'- spots is black. Secondaries 

 dirty yellowish at base, becoming smoky outwardly, veins and a discal 

 lunule smoky. Fringes yellow at base, smoky at middle, white at tips, 

 disc with a discal spot and a subterminal dusky line. Secondaries with 

 a dusky lunule and a dusky costal and outer border. 



Expanse, 34 mm. = 1.36 inches. 



Habitat. — Middle California (Dr. Barnes). 



A single female of this bright little species. The body is unusually 

 robust and the wings are in consequence actually and proportionally 

 small or " stumpy." It should be associated with redimiciila^ where it 

 will be easily separated from the described species. 



53. CARNEADES ACUTIFRONS, new species. 



Grround color dark red brown, shaded with black and pale gray. 

 Head brown with a black transverse line, the frontal protuberance 

 being more acute than usual in the genus. Collar with a black central 

 line, below which it is very pale gray, tinted with yellowish, and above 

 which it may be reddish or of the ground color. Thoracic vestiture 

 with long flattened hair and scales intermixed, tuftings distinct and a 

 little reddish anteriorly, patagia defined, disk blackish, margin indi- 

 cated by reddish scales, Primaries well marked with strong contrasts; 

 costal region gray or whitish to the transverse posterior line, apex paler, 

 cell, except for the pale ordinary spots, black filled. Basal line gemi- 

 nate, black, marked on the costa and again in the submedian interspace 

 where the whitish included shade cuts the black shade which extends 

 to the transverse anterior line. Transverse anterior line geminate, 

 black, broken, inner line not well marked, included space pale, out- 

 wardly oblique, and outcurved in the interspaces. Transverse posterior 

 line geminate on the costa, inner line slender, black, a little lunulate, 

 tending to become lost, squarely exserted over the reniform, very oblique 

 and a little incurved below. Subterminal line slender, whitish out- 

 wardly, dentate on veins 3 and 4, preceded by a dusky shading, partly 

 broken into black dots or spots, and by a broader costal shading. 

 Terminal sjiace save apex darker. A slender black terminal line, fol- 

 lowed by a pale line at the base of the fringes. Claviform prominent, 



