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Eremobia iianhami sp. nov. 



%albertina Auct. 



1913, B. & McD., Coiitr. N. H. Lep. N. A., II, (1), 28, pi. XIII, f. 4, 

 Eremobia. 



Head and thorax white irrorated with black. Abdomen pale fuscous. Pri- 

 maries : ground color white, suffused and irrorated with black and some brown- 

 ish ; basal line black, double, marked only on costa ; a black basal dash below 

 cell ; t. a. line black, double, outwardly oblique from costa to orbicular, which 

 intercepts the course of the line, inwardly oblique to median vein, thence as an 

 excurved crescent to vein 1, below which it appears as an excurved crescent 

 to inner margin; orbicular white, edged by a thin black line, with some fuscous 

 or brownish-fuscous central scaHng, variable in size, shape and color, rounded, 

 usually somewhat oblique ; claviform large, filled with fuscous or fuscous- 

 brown, often narrowly edged with white, the whole outlined by black, nearly 

 making contact with, and connected to, the t. p. line by a black shade bar ; 

 median shade present, sometimes obsolescent, blackish, diffuse, filling the space 

 between the stigmata, interrupted by the reniform, thence obliquely incurved, 

 closely parallel to the t. p. line, to the inner margin; reniform moderate, upright, 

 kidney-shaped, white, with a fuscous or brownish central crescent the center 

 of which is often luteous white, the whole faintly outlined by black scales 

 except mesially where these scales are denser, taking the form of a distinct 

 black crescent in the cell ; space between the reniform and the t. p. line often 

 marked by some luteous ; t. p. line with a tendency to be double, its outer line 

 more or less obsolete or obsolescent, its inner line strong, black, produced to 

 strong points on the veins, excurved from costa to about vein 4, thence incurved ; 

 s. t. line appearing as a fuscous shade, outwardly marked by white, inwardly 

 oblique from costa to vein 7, interrupted, somewhat waved, produced to a small 

 W-mark on veins 4-3 ; veins more or less marked by black and white ; tornus 

 pale shade practically obsolete in the males, in some females more marked ; 

 a thin black terminal line, broken by the veins into dots; fringe blackish-grey 

 checkered bj' white at the ends of the veins. Secondaries : whitish, heavily suf- 

 fused with fuscous black and appearing greyish, the fuscous suffusion tending 

 to form a subterminal band ; veins more or less marked by black ; a narrow 

 black terminal line broken by the veins; fringe luteous at the base, with a fus- 

 cous interline and white tips. Beneath : pale, the primaries heavily suffused 

 with fuscous and appearing grey, with the reniform, t. p. and s. t. lines marked 

 as suffused shades ; secondaries, more or less irrorated and suffused with fus- 

 cous, with a tendency for the development of a distinct discal spot, median 

 and subterminal shades ; fringes as on upper side. 



Expanse: 34-36 mm. 



This is the species figured by Barnes & McDunnough, 1913, as 

 albertina, "a rather paler form than specimens from type locaHty". 



