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at median nervure and vein 1 and excurved below costa, at sub- 

 median fold and above inner margin ; orbicular small, round, 

 defined by rough black scales ; a slight blackish discoidal bar ; 

 postmedial line brov^^nish defined on outer side by white, waved, 

 slightly excurved from below costa to vein 4, then incurved to near 

 origin of vein 2 and excurved above inner margin ; subterminal line 

 white defined on inner side by brown, oblique to vein 7, then 

 slightly waved; a brownish terminal line. Hind wing white 

 faintly tinged with red-brown and with a slight red-brown 

 terminal line ; the underside white slightly irrorated with red- 

 brown, a minute discoidal spot and diffused postmedial line from 

 costa to vein 2. 



Sab. U.S.A., New York, 1 $ , New Jersey. ^Ex^). 42 millim. 



*S175. Calocasia electa. 



Bemas electa, Smitli, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xix. p. 134 (1911). 



2 . Head whitish ; tegulEe grey ; thorax banded black and white ; 

 abdomen fuscous. Fore wing blue-grey irrorated with blackish, 

 the postmedial area paler, the inner half from base to the post- 

 medial line darker ; subbasal black striae from costa and cell and a 

 black streak below base of cell ; antemedial line black, angled out- 

 wards below costa and in submedian fold where it is connected with 

 the postmedial line by a black streak, angled inwards on median 

 nervure and vein 1 and excurved above inner margin ; orbicular 

 small, round, whitish with a black point in centre ; reniform 

 whitish with a black lunule in centre, ill-defined, narrow, oblong ; 

 postmedial line black, dentate, excurved from below costa to vein 4, 

 then strongly incurved, and excurved above inner margin ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish defined on inner side by fuscous, dentate, 

 angled outwards below vein 7 ; a blackish terminal line. Hind 

 wing semihyaline blackish ; a black tenninal line ; cilia chequered 

 white and black ; the underside paler with traces of a small discoidal 

 lunule and diffused postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hah. Canada, Manitoba, Winnipeg {JVaUis). Ex]). 38- 

 40 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



8176. Calocasia propinquilinea. (Plate CCXXXIY. fig. 4.) 



Ciiaradra propinquilinea, Grote, Trans. Aui. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 293 (1873) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 32. 



5 . Head and thorax white slightly mixed with brown ; patagia 

 with brown bars at middle and near tips ; meso- and meta thorax 

 Avith paired oblique brown bars ; mid and hind tibiae banded with 

 blackish, the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen red-brown with 

 blackish dorsal segmental bands. Fore wing white irrorated with 

 broAvn ; minute brown subbasal spots in and below the cell ; ante- 

 medial line dark brown, waved ; orbicular defined bv brown and 



