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MELEMMA MAGDALENA HULST . 
Hulst described this beautiful geometer in 1896, regarding it 
as the type of a new genus, and remarking on the quite unique 
pattern of the wings. The type was a female collected by Bruce, 
with no locality stated nearer than “ Colorado. ” This specimen 
has been figured by Barnes and McDunnough, Contr. N. A. 
Lep., vol. 1. (1912) pi. XYI. M. morsicaria Hulst, referred by 
Hulst to the same genus, is now removed to Sicya, but a second 
Melemcea ( M . virgata Taylor) was described from Arizona 
(Huachuca Mts.) in 1906. 
On Sept. 11, 1926, I took a specimen of M. magdalena at 
light at Grand Lake, Colorado, alt. 8,153 ft. The species must 
certainly be rare, as I had never seen it during the many years I 
have resided in Colorado. In the shape and pattern of the an- 
terior wings there is a certain suggestion of theEuropeanCTiesfas 
legatella Schiff., but I presume there is no close affinity. 
T. D. A. Cockerell. 
