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73. POLIA OCHRACEA, new species. 



Ground color a dirty pale gray, with smoky powderiiigs aud yel- 

 low oclierous shadings. Collar, thoracic disk, and patagia with ocher- 

 ous shading. Primaries with the ordinary lines all present, smoky, 

 not prominent. Basal line geminate, smoky, broken, the included 

 space broad and whitish on costa. Costal region and cell shaded 

 with blackish before the transverse anterior line, which is unusually 

 well removed from base. Transverse anterior line single, out- 

 wardly oblique, smoky, outcurved below median and outwardly toothed 

 below submedian vein. Transverse posterior line single, smoky, 

 irregularly dentate or zigzag, well outcurved over the reniform and 

 well bent inward below, so that the median space is much narrowed. 

 The two lines are connected by a smoky bar in the submedian inter- 

 space. Median shade smoky, diffuse, obscure, broken, the median 

 space being so much powdered that the shade line is only locally defin- 

 able. Subterminal line composed of ocher yellow, somewhat lunate 

 marks preceded by smoky shadings. A narrow, blackish, interrupted 

 terminal line. Fringes a little dentate. Orbicular large, broad, sides 

 outlined in ocher yellow, open above and below. Reniform very large, 

 broad, a little constricted centrally, more so from the outside, sides 

 marked with ocher yellow scales, above and below iudefined. Ocher 

 yellow scales are scattered over the wing, but are more obvious in the 

 basal and subterminal spaces. Secondaries whitish, with a smoky 

 tinge, with a blackish extra-median line, a smoky, diffuse, subterminal 

 shading, a blackish, lunulate terminal line and a smoky discal lunule. 

 Beneath with a yellowish tinge; primaries smoky on disk, both with 

 an extra-median dusky band and a dusky lunule. 



Expanse, 43 mm. = 1.72 inches. 



Habitat. — Iowa. 



A single, rather defective male, received years ago from Henry 

 Edwards. The antenna? are serrated and bristle tufted. The species 

 should be recognizable from its ocherous mottlings, which are different 

 from any congeneric form. The wings are rather broad and pointed, 

 as in (Uspa}\ which this species most resembles. 



74. PERIGEA LUCETTA, new species. 



Ground color glistening fawn brown, with a tendency to yellow 

 shadings. Head yellow in front, with a narrow black line, a velvety 

 brown interanteimal line and a velvety brown neck. Palpi yellow in 

 front, brown at the sides. CoUar with a yellowish shade toward base, 

 above margined by a black transverse line. Patagia marked, with a 

 yellowish shade at costal base of primaries. Primaries with the ordi- 

 nary lines obscure. Basal line marked by scattered yellow and black 

 scales. Transverse anterior line with difficulty traceable, partly gem- 

 inate, a little outcurved. Transverse posterior line a series of inter- 

 spaceal blackish lunules; abruptly bent on the costa, else nearly parallel 



