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COMADIA SUBTERMINATA sp. nOV. 



Ground color of primaries white, so heavily obscured by scattered black 

 scales that the appearance is dark-gray, while some of the black scaling takes 

 the form of distinct reticulations on the primaries. In some specimens a faint 

 band crosses the primaries in a subterminal position, and the discocellulars are 

 usually heavily marked with black. Secondaries fuscous. 



While Arizona and New Mexico presents apparently the same form from 

 various localities, in fifteen specimens before the authors ; the types are re- 

 stricted to a male and female from Redington. The remaining specimens in 

 the Barnes Collection being, not fresh enough, greased, or matted, so that 

 further types would result in the possibility of a mixed series. The vestiture 

 appears almost intermediate between bertholdi and intrusa. 



Expanse: $ 37 mm.; ? 49 mm. 



Type locality: Redington, Ariz. 



Number and sexes of types: Holotype $, Allotype 9, Barnes Collection. 



COMADIA BERTHOLDI GrotC. 



1880, Grote, Bull. B'klyn Inst., Ill, 45, Hypopta; 



1893, N. & D., Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, I, 33, Hypopta; 



1894, N. & D., Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, II, 165, Hypopta; 

 1897, Rivers & Dyar, Psyche, VIII, 10, larva, Hypopta; 



1903, Holl., Moth Book, p. 379 partim., (pi. XII, f. 2), Hypopta. 



form EDWARDi N. & D. 



1893, N. & D., Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, I, 32, Hypopta; 



1894, N. & a, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, II, 165, Hypopta; 



1911, B. & McD., Contr. Nat. Hist. Lep. N. A., I, #1, 28, an sp. dist.?, 

 pi. VII, f. 3, Co madia. 



It is impossible to definitely state what species are represented in 

 the bibliography listed above. Rivers and Dyar, and Holland's figure, 

 probably represent the Calif ornian species described herein. B, & 

 McD's. figure as bertholdi probably represents C. bertholdi race fiisca, 

 described herein. 



Typical C. bertholdi was described from specimens received by 

 Neumoegen from Bruce labeled "Colo.". The primaries are whitish, 

 heavily suffused with fuscous-brown scales. The "blackish" on the 

 median vein, spoken of in the original description, is a very deep 

 brown; as is, also, the diffuse shading between the median nervules. 

 There is a single male in the Barnes Collection which matches this 

 type and it is from "Colo., Bruce". 



