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calgariana. C. calgariana Sm. is larger than the preceding, pinkish-brown, the median, the upper median branch 
and lower radial branch more distinctly white than the other veins, below the median a slight nebulous stripe. 
Hindwing white, veins and margin brownish. Canada (Alberta). 
sarcophaea. C. sarcophaca Hmps. (24 e) is hardly to be mixed up with any other species owing to the almost 
black hindwings and their reddish fringes. The shape of the wings is broader than usual, the ground-colour 
pinkish-brown, the veins somewhat lighter, not white, in the lower cell-end a small blackish spot; no postmedian 
dots on the veins. Peru. 
macoya. C. niacoya Schs. approximates jaliscana (24 e). It is ochreous-yellowish grey scantily strewn with 
black, the other markings like there, though without the white in the cell-end, where we only notice a black 
dot as the continuation of a fine stripe above the median, behind it, between the base of the 3 radial branches, 
there is a larger black spot. Hindwing white with black marginal dots. Expanse of wings: 35 mm. Guatemala. 
jaliscana. C. jaliscana Schs. (24 c) has an ochreous-yellowish ground-colour with a very distinctly prominent, 
triangular subapical shade at the distal margin; the veins are scarcely lighter, but edged with a darker colour, 
and with red-brown internerval stripes; in the lower cell-end there is a faded red-brown spot with a white dot 
in it, and a postmedian row of black dots on the veins. Hindwing diaphanous white, veins and margin ochreous- 
yellowish. Prom Mexico and Cuba. 
clara. C. clara sp. nov. (24 e) is much larger than jaliscana. Forewing of a pure and uniform pale straw- 
colour, without any black strewing, with whitish, finely darker striped veins, and olive-brownish internerval 
stripes in the marginal area, with an intense, darker, subapical marginal triangle as in jaliscana, the median 
and the two branches rising from the lower cell-angle of a purer white, the former expanded into a spot at the 
end; below the rise of the lower median branch a black dot, a bent postmedian row and before the margin very 
fine internerval dots. Fringes darker reddish-brown. Hindwing diaphanous yellowish-white, veins and margin 
brownish. 1 2 from the Canon del Monte Tolima (Colombia). 
polystrota. C. polystrota Hmps. (24 e) is larger on an average, dusted more pinkish brown, the veins more 
distinctly striped white, without the prominent dark triangular spot at the margin. Brazil to Paraguay, and in 
Trinidad. 
microsticha. C. microsticha Hmps. (= extincta Drc. nec Gn., solita Drc. nec Wkr.) (24 i) resembles polystrota, 
but it is not brownish but somewhat flesh-coloured on a whitish ground; the postmedian row of dots on the 
veins is occasionally connected, so that it may form a complete posterior transverse line. Hindwing white, 
in the $ on the veins and margin brownish. Mexico. Costa Rica, Panama. 
cholica. C. cholica Dyar (24 f) is very much like microsticha, on the yellowish ground dusted with grey, with 
lighter veins and a grey shade along the median; in the lower cell-angle a small, yellowish, black-pupilled spot. 
The anal tuft in the o R very much less developed and almost entirely absent. Mexico (Zacualpan) in May. 
palliscca. C. palliseca Sm. (24 f) is a very light yellowish-white species, only in the costal-marginal area a little 
trewn with black, otherwise with the same markings as in the two preceding species. On the white hindwing 
the veins and margin are tinted ochreous-yellowish. United States (Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Durango). 
humidicola. €. humidicola Gn. (= extenuata Gn., tayaudi Gn., dorsalis Wkr., solita Drc. p. p.) (24 e) is of a 
somewhat darker ochreous colour than the preceding, recognizable by 3 dark lines on the collar; the postmedian 
row of dots is mostly extinct except 2 dots, at the distal margin with a subapical darker nebulous triangle. 
Hindwing white, the veins and margin ochreous yellowish. From Mexico to Paraguay and Argentina, and 
everywhere common. 
j unci cola. C. juncicola Gn. (= acljuta Grt.) (24 f) has much darker hindwings than the preceding, the whole 
marginal half is broadly darkened with a blackish brown. The ochreous-yellowish forewing is strewn with 
black at the costal and proximal margins; below the white median there is a more intense brownisli-red nebulous 
stripe; the postmedian dots on the veins are mostly reduced to two. United States (Alabama, Texas). 
microgonia. C. niicrogonia Hmps. (= extincta Drc. part., salebrosa Drc.) (24 f). The ochreous-yellowish forewing 
is tinted reddish in and round the cell, at the costal margin more whitish, the markings as in juncicola, 
but the white median forms a short upward hook at the cell-end; the triangular subapical marginal shade is 
rather distinct. Hindwing yellowish-white, on the veins and margin brownish. Mexico to Panama. 
alboradiafa. C. alboradiata Hmps. (24 g) is very easily recognizable, the brownish-grey, darker strewn ground 
exhibiting the upper radial branch, the upper median branch and the proximal-marginal vein on both sides 
broadly edged with white, the middle radial branch only on the lower side; the median is striped white, and 
besides there is a black basal ray, without any other markings or dots. Hindwing greyish-brown with white 
fringes. Patagonia. 
