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nating, making the over-all color dark gray with a faint 

 bluish tint; the transverse lines grayish white, faint 

 but distinguishable; antemedial line oblique, narrow 

 from costa to lower margin of cell, thence (on most 

 specimens) more or less expanded into a conspicuous 

 white blotch of variable but usually quadrate shape; 

 on some examples the white blotch is reduced and on a 

 few completely absent; in the latter the antemedial is a 

 narrow white line throughout, notched below costa and 

 at lower fold and with a complete, narrow, outer, black 

 border; on examples with the antemedial line expanded 

 into a white blotch, the blackish outer border is broken 

 or obliterated below the cell; subterminal hne inwardly 

 notched at veins 6 and lb, shaded inwardly by a 

 narrow, blackish border; discal dots, when distinguish- 

 able, confluent, forming, on well marked specimens, a 

 narrow black hne along discocellular vein; terminal dots 

 more or less confluent, usually forming a blackish line 

 along outer margin. Hind wing whitish with a more 

 or less smoky brown tint; veins faintly darkened and a 

 narrow brown shade or line along outer margin. Alar 

 expanse, 15-20 mm. 



Genitalia as given for the genus. 



Types. — In Rutgers University (feriella); U. S. 

 National Museum (submedianella) 



Type localities: Texas (feriella, in AMNH, ex 

 Rutgers); La Puerta, Cahf. (submedianella, in USNM). 



Food plant: Mistletoe. This record from speci- 

 mens from Riverside, Calif., reared by Commander 

 Dammers. 



Distribution. — Texas, Blanco County (Sept.), Burnet 

 Coimty (Sept.), Kerrville, Piano (Aug., Sept.), Rio Frio 

 (May) ; New Mexico; Mesilla Park (May) ; Arizona, 

 Fish Creek Station (Sept.), Redington, Santa Rita Mts. 

 (June), Wilgus; California, La Puerta (July), Moimt 

 Lowe (July), Riverside (July, Sept.). 



As indicated by the foregoing description the species 

 is individually variable. Dyar's submedianella was 

 described from rather small Cahfornia examples in 

 which the characteristic white patch over the lower 

 half of the antemedial line was partially or wholly 

 obhterated by dark scaling. In the series before me 

 there is every intergrade between the form with a 

 conspicuous white patch and that without it; the 

 extremes are not peculiar to any locality, nor do they 

 exhibit any genitalic differences. 



