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similar rays from outer margin^ breaking up the space into more or less complete oval 

 blotches. No complete s. t. line, and only indications are found of what normally 

 occurs. Fringes brown, cut with whitish on the veins. Secondaries smoky, tending 

 to become paler toward base. Beneath powdery ; primaries smoky on the disc, termi- 

 nal space paler, a broad blackish cloud at middle of costa and a broad, powdery, ob- 

 scure extra-median band. Secondaries paler with broad inner and extra median 

 powdery blackish bands and a discal spot. Expanse, 32 mm. = 1.28 inches. 



Habitat. — Cartwright, Manitoba, July 1 1 ; Winnipeg, Manitoba, 

 July 7. 



Two females from Mr. Heath and Mr. Hanham, respectively. 

 They resemble a very much mottled miseloides and so I took them to 

 be when first received. Comparing with a large series of the old 

 species, however, showed that this was a specific character, emphasized 

 by the absence of the s. t. line and other minor features. It is prob- 

 able that the white contrasting reniform may be absent in some ex- 

 amples as it is not infrequently in miseloides. It is another of those 

 cases of a representative species of which we have had so many of late 

 years from this same locality. 



Hadena unicincta, sp. nov. 



Ground color bluish ash gray, with blackish powderings, the veins of primaries 

 all blackish. Head and thorax concolorous, patagife a little smoky at the base of the 

 wings. A distinct, slender black streak extends from the base through the submedian 

 interspace to the transverse anterior line. T. a. line marked only by a geminate 

 lunule between internal vein and inner margin. Transverse posterior line single, 

 black, obscure over the cell where it is squarely exserted, well marked below vein 2 

 to the inner margin, rigid, followed by a white shade. This is the most prominent bit 

 of wing ornamentation and gives the name to the species. S. t. line practically obso- 

 lete. A broken blackish, terminal line. Claviform large, broad, concolorous, out- 

 ined by a distinct narrow black line which is not entirely complete. Orbicular large, 

 oval, oblique, almost or quite touching the reniform inferiorly, narrowly black ringed, 

 whitish filled. Reniform moderate in size, kidney-shaped, outwardly not defined, in- 

 wardly well margined by a black line, whitish filled, but merging outwardly into the 

 ground. Secondaries even, smoky pale gray, with a tendency to white at the base. 

 Heneath, pale' gray, powdery. Expands 37 mm. = 1.50 inches. 



Habitat. — Soda Springs, August 27, California; Sierra Nevada, 

 California, two female examples. 



The specimen from Sierra Nevada is type No. 4949 of the U. S. 

 National Museum, and both came through Mr. Henry Edwards, years 

 ago and at quite different times. It is a well and simply marked form 

 which is not easily mistaken. In its wing form it is allied to diversi- 

 color Morr., the type of maculation being also similar, or yet more 

 nearly like elaudeiis. In the absence of a male it is not possible to 



