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This species is placed before A^. continens Hy. Edw. to which it 

 is closely allied. It had been standing as an unnamed form of that 

 species in the Barnes Collection, but is quite distinct with its longi- 

 tudinal instead of transverse dark shade, its pale inner primary mar- 

 gins, and in the absence of shading in the claviform area which appears 

 constantly present in N. continens except in specimens so suffused 

 that it is obliterated by the dark brown suffusion ; also the t. a. and 

 t. p. lines are only about ^i the distance apart that they are in N. con- 

 tinens. 



Type locality and number and sex of types: Holotype 9, Huachuca Mts., 

 Ariz.; Paratype 9, Paradise, Cochise Co., Ariz. 



Namangana tapeta Sm. 



1900, Sm., Proc. U. S. N. M., XII. 467, Hadem; 



1902, DvAT, Bull. U. S. N. M., LII, 115, #1196, Hadena; 



1908, Hamp., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., VII, 378, pi. CXVII. f. 25, Oligia; 



1916, B. & McD., Contr. Nat. Hist. Lep. N. A., Ill, #3, 165, Namangana; 



1917, Grossbeck, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, XXXVII, 56, Hadena; 

 1917, B. & McD., Check List, p. 69, #2618a, continens race, Namangana. 



Described from a single male from Dr. Schwartz captured at 

 Cocoanut Grove, Florida. It has the habitus of an Oligia (Hampson) 

 or Hadena (Smith) rather than Perigea; not the habitus of N. con- 

 tinens. 



It is placed in the genus Namangana mainly because of lack of 

 characters. A single male, compared with the type in the National 

 Museum by Dr. Barnes is in the Barnes Collection; from St. Peters- 

 burg, Fla., April. 



This species is readily separated from N . continens not only by 

 the entirely different habitus but by different palpi ; those of A^ con- 

 tinens being much more closely scaled and clavate. 



Tentatively the authors place this species following A^ continens 

 for want of a better resting place. It wdll probably eventually be placed 

 in some other genus, Namangana containing a mixture of forms which 

 lack characters rather than being a single group of closely allied species. 



Namangana texana Sm. 



1900, Sm., Proc. U. S. N. M., XXII, 476, Perigea; 

 1902, Dyar, Bull. U. S. N. M., LII, 112, #1131, Perigea; 



