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A further incompatibility of labels appears in the fact that the 

 original catalogue of Henry Edwards lists number "4410, San Fran- 

 cisco dist.", whereas the specimens bearing the number 4410 are 

 labeled ''Mendocino Co. California". 



Nevertheless, as the number 4410 agrees with the number given 

 in the original description of of G. obliqita; and the specimen bearing 

 the label "Apamca ohliqua Harv." agrees with the description except 

 in being 46 instead of 36 mm. in expanse ; coupled with no other ap- 

 parent type being known, especially in the British Museum where most 

 of the Harvey types are deposited ; the authors propose that this speci- 

 men be considered the type. 



Smith's references (1893, 1899) probably represent mixed series 

 and the genitalia figured (1899) not that of true obliqua. 



GORTYNA XIMENA Sp. nOV. 



Xobliqiia Auct., (nee Harv.). 



1881, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv., VI, 268, (partim.), Gortyna. 



1910, Hamp., Cat. Lcp. Phal. B. M., IX, 39, (partim.), text fig. 11, 

 Hydrcecia. 



Antennae of male heavily serrate and fasciculate. Head, thorax, patagia, 

 tegulae and abdomen cream-color. Primaries : ground color cream, tinged with 

 pale rufous, maculation pale rufous ; t. a. line outwardly oblique from costa 

 to claviform, thence slightly inwardly oblique to inner margin; claviform filled 

 with rufous, outlined by slightlj' darker rufous; not a pale streak; orbicular 

 filled with cream color; reniform not well defined; t. p. line preceded by a 

 deeper rufous shading, itself slightly bent outwards on costa, slightly rounded 

 throughout radial region, and thence oblique to inner margin ; s. t. line a faint 

 shade, its course almost parallel to the outer margin; fringes pale. Secondaries: 

 pale cream-white, slightlj^ suffused by rufous which is most prominent on the 

 veins, with an evanescent median shade ; fringes pale. Beneath : almost con- 

 colorously pale cream-color, with faint median shade evanescent on the sec- 

 ondaries, the veins somewhat tinged with rufous. 



Expanse: 45-50 mm. 



Closely allied to pallescens but larger and paler. The antenna! 

 shaft is heavier than in that species but the serrations are shorter, 

 placing the insect in Hampson's Group III of Hydrcecia (Cat. Lep. 

 Phal. B. M., IX). 



The thoracic vestiture is composed of hair and scales, the scales 

 much narrower than in obliqua. 



Type localities: Truckee and Sierra Nevada, California. 



