460 rBOCEEniNGS of the national museum. vol. XXII. 



Expanse, 31 mm, = 1.25 inches. 



Habitat. — Los Angeles County, California (Coquillett). 



A single female, from the collection in the U. S. National Museum. 

 It is an ally of silens, but much smaller, with small ordinary spots and 

 very sharply marked subterminal line. It recalls atrifera in size and 

 habitus, but is quite distinct. 



55. CARNEADES LAMINIS, new species. 



Ground color dull fuscous, primaries washed with ashen gray. Head 

 brown. Collar with a rusty shade at base, reaching the insertion of 

 the wings, margined above witli a broad, black central line. Thoracic 

 vestiture mostly flattened hairs, patagia and tuftings obvious. Pri- 

 maries gray along the costal region halfway across subterminal space, 

 the cell smoky, darker than any other part of the wing. A thread-like 

 black line extends from base to the transverse anterior line, shaded a 

 little with smoky. Basal line geminate, blackish, broken in the cell. 

 Transverse anterior line geminate, smoky, obscure, outwardly oblique, 

 outcurved in the interspaces, lost in the cell, and feebly marked below 

 internal vein. Transverse posterior line geminate on the costa, single 

 below the cell, fine, crenulate, sinuate, not relieved. Subterminal line 

 gray, irregular, dentate on veins 3 and 4, defined by the dark terminal 

 space except at apex, which is clear, and by a preceding shade which 

 fills the subterminal space on costa and is broken and more or less 

 punctiform below the middle of the cell. A series of small black ter- 

 minal lunules, followed by a yellow line at base of fringes, i^o median 

 line. Claviform barely indicated. Orbicular small, irregular, oblique, 

 gray, centered with smoky, partly outlined by black scales. Eeniform 

 moderate, kidney-shaped, gray, powdered with smoky, inwardly 

 defined by black scales, outwardly by the dusky space beyond it; 

 above and below not defined. Secondaries dirty yellowish white, with 

 a smoky outer border; veins and a narrow discal lunule, smoky. 

 Fringes yellow at base, with a brown central line, white at tip. 



Expanse, 34 mm. = 1.36 inches. 



Habitat. — Middle California (Dr. Barnes). 



A single male in good condition. The species resembles a small 

 tesselloides, but is not nearly so well defined and has a dull smoky 

 brown tinge not found in the older species. The ordinary spots are 

 also different and the collar in tesselloides is bright ashen gray infe- 

 riorly, not rusty. Altogether this is a darker species and more sordid. 



56. ANYTUS ATRISTRIGATUS, new species. 



Ground color gray with a variable smoky tinge. Head with smoky 

 frontal and interautennal lines. Collar black tipped. A blackish 

 band from the eyes to the base of the primaries. Patagia margined 

 with blackish. Primaries with all the markings defined, a peculiar 

 and prominent feature being a black streak, which extends from base 



