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creamy gray, with a reddish tinge, with or without an outer smoliyline 

 and discal spot on one or both wings. 



Expanse, 28 to 38 mm. = 1.12 to 1.52 inches. 



Habitat. — Los Angeles County, California, in September (U.S.N.M.); 

 southern California (Barnes); Phcenix, Arizona, Marcii 11 (Dr. Grif- 

 fiths). 



Eight specimens, seven of them females, are before me, most of them 

 in good couQlition. The siiecies is smoothly scaled and has somewhat 

 the appearance of the Eastern Platysenta vklens, but it is much paler, 

 much larger, broader winged, and with none of the sharp contrasts. 

 Everything is vague, and even the white-marked reniform is not 

 aggressively conspicuous. It has no very close allies in the genus to 

 which I have referred it. 



Type.— Gut. I^o. 4832, U.S.K.M. ■ 



79. HOMOHADENA CANDIDA, new species. 



Ground color white, more or less overlaid and mixed with smoky and 

 black scales. Head with a broad, black stripe across the front. Col- 

 lar, with a transverse line of black scales near base, then yellowish, 

 smoky, white and smoky shades in succession. Disk powdered with 

 smoky and blackish scales. Primaries with the ordinary maculation 

 lost or changed to a strigate type. A black streak runs through the 

 middle of the wing from base to outer margin. All the usual lines are 

 indicated by oblique black lines across the costal region. Transverse 

 anterior line marked on inner margin by an oblique blackish streak. 

 Transverse posterior line indicated by black, venular, somewhat elon- 

 gate dots. The outer portion of the wing is smoky, much darker 

 toward the internal angle, and through this darker shading a paler 

 subtermiual line is vaguely traceable. There is a series of short, inter- 

 spaceal black lines in the terminal region. Fringes verj^ broad, inter- 

 lined, cut with smoky. Ordinary spots not traceable. Secondaries 

 white, semitransparent; a blackish terminal band, broadest at the 

 apex, narrowing rapidly and lost a little beyond the middle. Beneath 

 white, iridescent, i>iimaries smoky along the costa a.nd forming a broad 

 outer band, secondaries with a smoky apex and a narrow terminal line. 



Expanse, 26 mm. — 1.04 inches. 



Habitat. — Beeville, Texas, May 13 (E. A. Schwarz). 



A single female, which may not have its best place as a Homohaclena. 

 It resembles most nearly Oncocenmis atricollaris, but has unarmed fore- 

 tibiiP. The specimen is in fair condition, but the thorax has been 

 compressed, causing the collar to project hood-like. 



Type.— Gat. No. 4814, U.S.N.M. 



80. ONCOCNEMIS CILIATA, new species. 



Ashen gray, with smoky streaks, shades, and powderings. Head 

 black powdered in front and on the vertex. Collar with a smoky and 



