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PSYCHE
BY JOHN B. SMITH, SC. D., HEW BRUNSWICK, ?I. J. Xyloptmsia onita, n, sp..
Ground color dull ashen gray, the inoculation well defined and black. Head mottled, front with alternate white and blackish lines. Collar pale at base ; a black transverse line ~ b o ~ the middle, then smoky to a gray tip. Patagia black edged and with an inner sub- marginal line.
Disc of thorax powdery.
Primaries with a black longitudinal line at base, extending almost to the t. a. line, somewhat diffuse inferiorly. There is also a blackish shading along inner margin.
Basal line geminate, blackish, broken. T. a. line geminate, outer part a little broader and blacker, even throughout ; a. little outcurred in the in terspaces, outcurved over cell and a little incurved below ; inner line blackish, lunul&e, best marked below vein s ; outer line even, slender. smoky; included space gray. S. t. line nar- row, whitish, forming an obvious W, preceded by sagittate biack dashes at the middle and followed by a smoky shading. There is a series of small black terminal lun~tles. The median shade is from costa, outwardly oblique, darkening the space between the ordinary spots, inwardly angled below the rentform and running close to the t. p. line. A black bar connects the inedinn lines just above vein I. Claviform moderate, narrowly outlined in black, smoky. Orbicular large, oval, oblique, not well defined, gray. Reniform moderate
in size, kidney-shaped, gray, without definite out line. Secondaries dull whitish with a taint yellowish tinge, becoming smoky outwardly, fringes whitibh ; a narrow median line. Beneath. primaries smoky gray, even. with a partial outer line; secondaries whitish, pow- dery, with a smoky discal lunule and a narrow, well marked extra median line. Cxpands 1.56 inches = 39 mm.
Habitat:- Calgary, Alberta, Head of Pine Creek, June 26 ; F. H. Wolley Dod. One female, in good condition. The species resembles and is allied to ciutfaria; but differs in the uniform bluish ash gray, the even black bar connecting the median lines and in the clearer better defined markings.
I have another female example from Corvallis, Oregon, which I refer here with consicl- erablc doubt
It may come within the range of variation ; but more material is needed for psi tive decision.
Xylophasia caigra, n. sp,
Ground color a deep smoky brown, without contrasting maculation of any kind. Head
without raaculntion. Collar with an obscure black median line. Thorax heavily built, res-
titure thick, an admixture of gray scales along the margins of the pntagia. Abdominal tuftings wtll marked. Primaries with all the markings just traceable : the basal and median lines geminate a little darker, included space a little gray. S. t. line a little paler than the ground, forms a very small W, and is variably emphasized by preceding and following thades. There is an obscure, diffuse median shade, oblique from the costa between the ordinary spots then close to the t- p. lint, darkening a little the outer portion of the median



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Head mottled,
transverse line
an inner sub-
al line at base,
also a blackish
tine geminate,
the interspaces,
lunulate, best
S, L line nnr-
the middle and
. lunules. The
en the ordinary
be. A black bar
iviy outlined in
iform moderate
.ish with a faint
å´ median line.
f whitish, pow-
ne.
ley nod.
0 cinffacta ; but
median lines and
ere with constit-.
ial is needed for
any kind. Head
ieuvily built, ves-
tgia. Abdominal
basal and median
tie paler than the
tg and following
WtSt between the
on of the median
,pace. There is a series of black terminal tunnies, followed by a very narrow pale line at base of the otherwise dark fringes. The latter are also narrowly cut with pale and a little notched at the outer margin. Claviform small, concolorous, barely outlined by darkerscales. Ordinary spots obscure, not defined, more or less paler marked, of moderate size. The orbi'culitr is oblique, narrow ovate.
Rcniforrn upright, a little constricted centrally. Stc- ondnries smoky yellowish, darker outtvardl?, with a. dark discal lunule and with yellowish fringes. Beneath whitish, powdery ; primaries more smoky on disc, with a paler terminal ipnce, a dis-1 spot, an extra-median and a s. t. dusky line ; secondaries with a small discat spot. a well defined extra median line and a diffuse sub-terminal shade. Expands 1.36-1-50 itiches = 34-37 wm.
Habitd: Calgary, Aiberta, Head of Pine Creek, July 3 and 7 ; F. H. Wolley Do& Three good males. This is one of those obscure species that have no positive charac- ters and depend for their statding upon the absence of any that distinguish others. It is a little like fittttosa; but has entire secondaries. The absence of black in the basal space excludes it fromfereas which it otherwise resembles in size and general habitus. Allied to wfitsca in general appearance and heretofore confused with it. Mr. Dod has
sent me a series for examination and after including my own examples I have separated out as faDmt those examples in which the ground is of an even lilac gray, the reddish suffusion is uniform, and neither the ordinary spots nor the terminal space contrasts strongty. In the new species either the reniform or terminal space, or both, contrast strongly, and are violet or lilac gray. The s. t. line is more sharply defined, the preceding marks blackish and more contrasting as well as more numerous. The lower half of the wing tends to a gray which is best marked on the inner margin. The upper half of the wing -is reddish, pulverulent and is darkest on the costa. Altogether this is a more vivid species. Habitat: -Calgary, Alberta, June and July ; Winnipeg, Manitoba ; Denver, Colorado, in May; New York without date or specific locality. Ten good examples equally divided as to sex ore before me, and twelve of .tuff~s.*ca have -
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been used in the comparison.
Cleocerim discolor n. so.
Ground color a somewhat intense clay pltow, marked with black it blotchy appearance.
Head clothed with a mixture ot' black and white hair and scales, spy- ing it a gray appearance; an obscure, whitish interantenna1 line. Collar yellow at base, upper half mottled with black and white. Thoracic disc and center of patagia grav, mottled with yellow scales. Abdomen paler yellow. Primaries with the median lines obscured, vet tmccabit ; t. a. nearly upright ; t. p. squareiy and only a little exserted over the cell, and a Uttle Incurred below- Basal space yellow, outer half blackish except along the Inner margin and just below the median vein, where ihe yellow shade extends to the t. a. line and a little b&yood. Median space blackexcept along costa where it is yellow mottled, along the t. a. line where it is indented as already stated, and except for the ordinary spots, which arc dis- colored.
The orbicular is round or nearly so, with a few dusky scales in center. Reniform oblong, upright, with a dusky central line. The 6. t. space is black on the costs ; but the



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56 PSYCH. [June
bhtck narrows toward t. p. line, leaving the space ;ellow below the middle of the wing. S. t. line broken, black, a little diffuse, somewhat irregular. Terminal space outwardly powdered
with black.
A series of black terminal lunules. Secondaries whitish at base, with a. narrow, dusky, extramedian tine, a smoky outer border with a paler submarginal line, and whitish fringes. Beneath,~ pnie lustrous gray; secondaries uniform ; primaries with a paler terminal space and a little mottling on the disc. Expands 1.2 j inches = 31 mm.
Hubitit:: -Tam, New Mexico, August 20th. .
One female. in good condition.
It is more than probable that this will be found to be a distinctly variablespecies and the proportion of the yellow and black may be decidedly incon- #tent. It is likely, however, that the discolored ordinary spots form a constant feature and in this may be found the obvious distinction from the other described species. Ground color a very light ashen gray, macutaUon smoky brown and not contrasting, Head a little paler, sides of the palpi and a little interantennal tuft eniok!. Collar with a
blackish median line surmounted bv a. whitish shading. Disc of the thorax smoky as we
also the loose basal tufts on the abdomen. Primaries without ordinary spots, the median lines distinct on costa only. T. a. line single, brood, diffuse,outwardly oblique, reaching the median vein and then lost. T. p. line geminate, the two parts well separated, equally dis- tinct, outwardly oblique, reaching the subcosta only, the inner line there lost. The outer line Is broken there, but becomes visible again as a smoky line which forms the inner border to a smoky shading which starts from the apex and extends obliquely inward to the middle of the submedian interspace. At that point a blackish streak crosses the line, limits the ahade and reaches the a. t. line. The s. t. line is indicated by a series of interspatial black marks and streaks, more or less obviously bordered by a whitish area, the most prominent of which is above the anal angle. The fringes are a little wavy, gray, with a broad white inter- line. Secondaries smoky yellow, more whitish at base, fringes whitish. Beneath, primaries
smoky, with an outer line indicated on costa: secondaries more whitish, powdery, with a brownish extra median tine and a emall discal spot. Expands 8-40 inches = 35 mm.
iYabitat : - Corvailis, Oregon, at light, Sept. it ; Washburn. One male, in fair condition.
The species is obviously distinct from those previously described
the verv oblique costal indication of median lines and by the oblique dusky shading which extends from the outer third of the submedim interspace to the apex. Ground color deep blue gray, a little powdery. Front with an obscure line; collar with
a stender, black median line ; a blackish line at the base of the wings. Abdomen smoky
with a slightly reddish tinge, the lateral tuitings distinct. Primaries with costal region
slightly paler at base, the veins narrowly black dotted except No. I, which is rather obviously blackish. A. slender black basal streak which extends to the end of a long outward tooth of the L a. line. This t. a. line is marked on the costa. and is only fragment;>rily traceable afterward. It makes a long inward tooth in the cell, a very long outward tooth in the sub-



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[ the wing. S. t.
n-ardly powdered
e, with a narrow,
line. and whitish
i a paler terminal
be found to be a
: decidedly incon-
stant feature and
M.
not contrasting.
v. Collar with a
rait smoky as are
;potti, the median
que, reaching the
rated, equally dis-
lost. The outer
t the inner border
ard to the middle
ie line, limits the
interspatial black
lost prominent of
amad white inter'
heath, primaries
I powdery, with a
those previously
he oblique dusky
the apex.
s line; collar with
Abdomen smoky
dth costal region
Ì rather obviously
outward tooth of
mtarity traceable
tooth in the sub-
median interspace and seems to reach the inner margin on the median shade. T. p. line
faintly traceable in one example as a narrow, strongly crenulate line. The median shade
Jarkena the space between the ordinar! spots, runs from above the orbicular to base of reni- '
form, thence to the middle of the hind margin. It is obscure, ditfiise and tends to 0b60- Icsrtnce.
S. t. line is a series of smoky sagittate spots which tend to run together and do not reach the costa.
Orbicular rather small, ovate, upright or a little oblique, neatly black ringed, complete within the cell ; but in tiro exampits there is a supplementary spot faintly indicated. Reniform upright, broad, a little constricted centrallv, lower angles tending to extend, outlined by black scales, a few brown scales in center. Secondaries lustrous,
(smoky, with a reddish tinge toward base, a vague dusky discal spot and reddish fringes. Beneath, primaries smoky, with a powdery paler terminal space; secondaries reddish gray, powdery, with a distinct blackish disciil spot and a smoky extra median line which tends to obsolescence.
Expands 1.70-1.90 inches = 4338 ttwn.
Habitat' Ottawa, Ontario, October 3-7; I%. J. Fletcher. One male and four females) : all good specimens. Resembles aiicilia in appearance and
general characters and with it belongs to the georgii series. As compared with ancilia this
species is more even in color, has much smaller spots and has traceabie median lines, at least the t- a. being marked in all cases. The general pattern is the same. Xylina anciUa, n. sp.
Ground color dark bluish gray, powdery.
Head with a black frontal line; basal seg- merits of antennae scaled with white; collar with a narrow black median line ; patagia with a black line at base of wings. Primaries very uniform in color, the veins black marked, though not prominently so, costal half oi basal space the palest part of the wing. There is a narrow black basal streak in the submedisw interspnce, An obscure dusky shade angles on this line near base, extending outwardly to costs and to the inner margin, the upper portion fotming the limit of the basal paler area. The median lines are lost. A. diffuse
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median shade which tends to obsolescence starts 'from costs above orbicular, angles outward to the base of reitifom, then inward to the middle of inner margin. A slightly irreguiar wries of 'small sagittate black spots indicates the s. t. line. A series of obscure dusky terminal Iunules. Clavifotm wanting. Orbicular large, irregulariv oval. oblique, with an appendix below the median vein, concolorous, more or less distinctly outlined by black tcales. Reniform large, broad, upright, a little dilated interiorly where it is darkened b)' the median shade and relieved by a few brown scales -the onlycolor patch on the wing. Sec- ondaries smoky. a little paler at base. lustrous, with a darker discal lunule and whitish fringes. Beneath, primaries ranging from reddish gray to dark smoky, the paler examples with a dark discal spot. Secondaries reddish gray, powdery, with a conspicuous black discal spot, and an extra median, somewhat wavy dark line. Expands I - 50-1.73 inches = 37-43 mm-
Habitat: Calgary, Alberta, Head of Pine Creek, September 18, Mr. Dod; Cartwright, Manitoba, October 6, Mr. Heath ; Wellington, British Columbia, September 7, Sir. Bryant. One male and tiro females, in pod condition. The species is allied to orepensis- Ham., but is of a very dark blue gray, with much less contrast, and inconspicuous macula- tion. The scant material indicates aconsiderable range of variation and that the more uni- fom examples may be confused with well marked gtorgii or kolociu



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PSYCSE, [June
XyBiw vertina, n. sp.
h a bluish tint, more or less powdery. Head with smoky and black black frontal line.
Collar a little brownish at bnse, to a narrow black which is a distinct white edging. Patagia with a black line at basic of en a little rufous.
Primaries with the veins narrowly black marked. the entire surface s little mottled, smoky along the costa, the distinct outwardly angled iimoky median shade forming the most obvious character. There is a slender black basal line. T.
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line geminate, the two parts widely separated, black, dentate, distinct only from cost.? to / ,
median vein, the outer part touching the orbicular, a long tooth marking its termination on nner margin.
T. p. line geminate, marked in the costal area only. S. t.he marked I)?
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k~ of sagittate black spots.
There Is a series of small black terminal lunules. Tlic
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an shade is smoky, diffuse, outwardly oblique from costa no as to darken the renilrorm,, en inward so as to reach the inner margin at about its middle. Orbicular round or-ovate. I + good size, a little paler, narrowly outlined bv black scales. Reniform large, upright, centrally somewhat constricted, dilated inferioriv, incompletely oiitiined, darkened b? thc !
median shade and by a powdering of rusty scales. Secondaries smoky with a reddish tinge, I " .
a little darker outwardly, fringes whitish. Beneath, primaries smoky, with a reddish pow- ;. .
d e ~ terminal area and a blackish round discal spot. Secondaries reddish, powdery, with it 0m0ky discal lunule.
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Expands 1.7i(-i.92 inches = 44-48 mm.
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Habitat: Corvallis, Oregon, September 8, at light; British Columbia - no date. ^ å
!å ;
Two males in good condition.
The species belongs to the georgii series, differing from ^ t '
them alI in the more elongate primnriea, the confused mottling, and the very distinctmedian 'Ì ,# " r 3
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ahade. Incidentally it may be noted that all the species of this series have a black line on the outer side of the hind tibia,
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Xylina merceda, n. sp.
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Ground color a deep ashen gray without any reddish atlmisture. Head and thorax almost mouse gray, a little powde-j-, coilar with an obscure transverse line. Primaries with
I1 the macutation present, not well written, only the paler orbicular standing out in y relief whntever. There is no black line, streak or dash at base. Basal line marked
t?ly on costa by geminate blackish lines which tend to become lost. T. a. line geminate.
lackish, tending to become tosi ; irregular, rarioldy outcurred in the interspaces. T. p. me geminate, vague at best, inner line lunulate, almost crenulttte, outer a mere shading. rregular; but as a whole nearly parallel with the outer margin. S. t. line consists ot n
mewhat irregular du~ky shade, more or less broken up into triangular, hardly sagittate Ots, outwardly marked by whitish scales. A series of blackish terminal lunules tends to
come obsolete. There is a ditfuse, obscure median shade angulated on the reni form. aviform very small, loop-like, not aiwavs traceable. Orbicular oval, oblique, large, with a bmedian anhex, paler than the ground and with blackish margins. Reniform larye. up-
ight, a little constricted, margined by black scales within which is a somewhat puler an11 LI- lus.
Secondaries dull whitish or yellowish at base, darkening outwardly to the whitish inges, markings of underside faintly reproduced. Beneath, primaries smoky, with a pow-
: secondaries pale, powdery, with a




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(moky and black
to a narrow black
ick Ho* at base of
black marked, the
jly angled smoky
~ck basal line. T-
~nly from costa to
its termination on
. t.tlne marked by
nal Iunulea. The
-ken the reniforni,
ar round or ovate,
rm large, upright.
darkened bj the
th a reddish tinge,
h a reddish pow-
, powdery, with a
L- no date.
ie~, differing from
ary distinct median
w a black line on
Head and thorax.
e. Primaries with
7 standing out in
Basal tine marked
?. Ìö line geminate,
interspaces. T. p.
r a mere shading,
line consists ot a
ar, hardly sagittute
hl lunulea tends to
on the reniform.
lique, large, with a
Icnifom large, up-
tewhat paler annu-
dly to the whitish
moky, with a pow-
lade line and a dark
Expands 1444.58 inches = 36-39 mm.
ffalntat: Cartwright, Manitoba, October I, 6, November t ; Mr. Heath. Three fcrn(11e specimens, in fair condition, no two alike. In one dark exarnpk all the
macalation is. present as described, in the palest everything is vague and just traceable. The ftpecies is allied to x11imot1a than winch it is smaller, altogether different in ground color, the prharies shorter and broader. From wiuuipeg it ditkers J-et-more in the absence of .ill the smoky powdering as well as in detaih of inoculation. BAPTARMA, n. gen.
Head small, closely applied to the thorax, hardly retracted ; eves ovate, moderate in size ; front broad, protuberant, with a lnrge central depression which is roughened. surrounded by a distinct rim, and has a small central ridge inferiorly ; tongue well developed ; palpi mod- t*rn& slightlj exceeding the frontal protuberance ; antennae moderate in length, quite stout, timitar in both sexes : vestiture thin divergent hair. Thorax stout, vestiture thin. divergent, hairy, collar and patagia marked bat not at all prominent or uplifted; legs short and stout, tibiae not spinose except that there ma! be either one or two stout curved spines at the outer of tip on the anterior pair; anterior tarsi with three or four stout curved spines on the basal joint and one each on the second and third joints, making a ~eries of seven or eight otout curved spines on the outer side of the foot between the tip of the tibia and the fourth tarsal joint
Abdomen short, conic, untufted.
Primaries small, trigonate, apex drawn out. costa somewhat depressed, outer margin oblique, arqunte : secondaries proportionate, vena- tion normal.
The peculiar armature of the fore-legs,combined with the head characters and the absence of other tibia1 armature should make this easily recognizable. Baptarnui falicita n. 6p.
Head, thorax and abdomen black, the vestitwe with an admixture of yellow and scarlet hair that gives the effect of a wash or film of these tints. Primaries blackish with a wash of
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carmine, terminal space n little "ravish powdered. There is a. small yellow spot nt the point ill the median cell preceding the reniiorm; there is a larger, somewhat lunate yellow spot at the point beyond the renifortn which would, normally, mark the end of the median space ; there is a large, oblong, rectangular blotch in the submedim interspace, occtipjing what would nonnaily be the outer half of tlif median space. Secondaries scarlet with a. brond black border on all save the costal margin: fringes with a carmine tinge- Beneath, both wings have the disc scarlet, shading to purplish or carmine over the black marginal bands. Expands .90-.95 inches = 22-24 mm.
Habitat: Yuma County, Arizona, in April ; Mr. Hutson. One male and one femnle in good condition and one somewhat defective additional female.
The three specimens are very much alike ant] are readily distinguished by the scarlet secondaries: this scarlet by the b~e is variable and less intense in flown examples. So, also, the overiay of purplish or carmine scales on the primaries i the insect a dull smoky, instead of a brilliant purplish tinge.



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PSYCHE
[June
Behrennia hutsonii n. sp.
Ground color white with an admixture of pale brown scales giving it a. somewhat smoky or creamy tint.
Head and thorax immaculate, the vestiture somewhat loose and divergent. -
Primaries with a11 the macuiation very distinct, smooth and even, the scales a little lustrous. Basal space whitish, with a light brown powderin" becoming white at the t. a. line which is thus emphasized. Basal line black, geminate, distinct, broken. T. a. tine begins at costa about one third from base, is inwardly toothed on the median vein, curves outwardly below this and yet on the whole is inwardiy oblique, ranching the inner margin well within the basal third. The line is single, black, preceded by a white shade to the inner margin, where -
it is geminate below vein one. The median space is n very light smoky brown, darkest at the t- a. line and lightening somewhat to the t. p. line which is white, a little diffuse out- witrdi?, starts from costa at about one fourth from apex and runs inwardly oblique, with an incurve in the sub-median interspace, to the internal margin a little beyond the outer third,