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This species is known to the authors only from Arizona and 

 Mexico. A specimen has been compared with the " $ type" of proclivis 

 (Tepper Collection) by Dr. McDunnough, its label reading "exact". 

 Specimens have been compared by both authors with the " ? type" of 

 proclivis (Neumoegen Collection). The type of oaxacana (National 

 Museum) is a female; and has been matched with an Arizona specimen 

 by the junior author. Hampson is correct listing it as a synonym. 



Rhizagrotis NEOCLivis sp. nov. 



Head blackish. Thorax ochreous mixed with some black; the tegulae 

 darker, crossed by a narrow black line ; patagia pale ochreous mixed with some 

 black. Abdomen ochreous, more or less considerably suffused with black, the 

 tip yellowish. Primaries : ground color pale ochreous suffused and powdered 

 with black; basal line obsolescent; t. a. line indistinct, double, black, waved; 

 orbicular pale ochreous with central blackish powdering, elongated, nearly mak- 

 ing contact with the reniform ; which is similar in color, kidney-shaped, up- 

 right, with central fuscous crescent in which there is some pale scaling ; clavi- 

 form minute, outlined by black, with a fuscous filling; basal and medial areas 

 below submedian fold strongly suffused with black; t. p. line black, with a 

 tendency to be double, produced to points on the veins, bent outward below 

 costa, incurved opposite the cell, excurved to vein 4, thence incurved to inner 

 m.argin ; some pale ochreous ground color showing in the s. t. space which is 

 otherwise blackish ; s. t. line mainly represented by short whitish-ochreous 

 streaks in the interspaces, these streaks more or less conjoined to form a waved 

 line; terminal area blackish; a terminal series of minute black points between 

 the veins ; fringe checkered black and ochreous. Secondaries : fuscous-brown, 

 paler basally, with dark fuscous-brown over the distal half, the veins strongly 

 tinged with fuscous-brown; fringe yellowish at the base, a fuscous-brown inter- 

 line, and white tips. Beneath : primaries nearly unicolorously fuscous-brown ; 

 secondaries with paler central disc, fuscous-brown margins and veins, and a 

 blackish discocellular dot. 



Sexes similar; the secondaries of the females slightly darker than those 

 of the males. 



Expanse: 37-41 mm. 



Very similar to proclivis, but easily separated from that species 

 by the pale ochreous ground color instead of dark brown. It is pos- 

 sibly a Texas race of proclivis but there are no intergrades in the 

 Barnes Collection, nor are there any intergrades in any collection ex- 

 amined by the authors. 



Type locality: Kerrville, Texas. 



