PROXENUS. 435 



costa and incurved below submedian fold ; orbicular represented by 

 a black point, the reniform by a slight dark spot with whitish 

 point on its outer edge ; traces of a dark postraedial line bent out- 

 wards below costa, then waved, oblique below vein 4. Hind wing 

 white faintly tinged with brown especially on the veins and apical 

 area ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a 

 faint discoidal lunule. 



Hah. Hungary; S. Ecjssia, Sarepta {Ohrlstoph), Zeller, Frey, and 

 D'Emmick Colls. E.vp. 24-32 millim. 



4125. Proxenus nitens. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 20.) 

 Caradrina nitens, Dyar, Can. Ent. xxxvi. p. 30 il904). 



S . Head and thorax glossy fuscous brown slightly tinged with 

 grey ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous brown, fore wing 

 glossy black slightly irrorated with grey ; traces of a dark ante- 

 medial line bent inwards to costa and inner margin ; orbicular 

 absent ; reniform a minute white lunule ; faint traces of a dark 

 postmedial line, bent outwards below costa and oblique below 

 vein 4. Hind wing white, the costal area and termen to vein 2 tinged 

 with fuscous ; cilia tinged with fuscous except towards tornus ; the 

 nnderside with the costal area thickly irrorated with fuscous, the 

 terminal area slightly irrorated with brown to vein 2. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary ( WoUeij-Dod), 3 d" , Br. Columbia, 

 Kaslo ; U.S.A., N. Dakota, Turtle Mts. EAy. 34 millim. 



4126. Proxenus miranda. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 21.) 



Caradrina miranda, Grote, Bull. Buff. See. Nat. Sci. i. pp. 11, 169 (1873) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. JV. Am. p. 195 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 198. 



Head and thorax dark glossy brown mixed with grey ; abdomen 

 grey suffused with brown. Fore wing glossy black-brown slightly 

 irrorated with grey ; faint traces of a waved whitish antemedial 

 line; orbicular and reniform represented by faint dark points; the 

 postmedial line represented b^' a faint series of minute dark points 

 on the veins. Hind wing white, the veins, costal area and termen 

 to vein 2 tinged with brown ; cilia tinged with brown from apex to 

 vein 2 and with a line pale line at base ; the underside with the 

 costal area irrorated and suffused with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Xew York, Evans Center, 1 c? , 5 $ , Washington, 

 1 $ , Colorado, Utah, California. Exp. S 32, $ 24-26 millim. 



Larva. Head pale brown, reticulate with darker brown. Body 

 robust, the feet of joints 7 and 8 smaller ; obscure yellowish brown, 

 the substigmatal line broad, pale ; dorsum broadly pale yellowish, 

 containing a darker band that widens angularly on the segments ; 

 cervical shield concolorous. — H. G. D. 



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