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hind wings, there are two extra-discal lines, but the edge of the wing is clear, 

 with a black interrupted marginal line. Abdomen long and slender, with a 

 black band at base and a lateral linear black stripe. 



Length of body, <?, 0.45 ; of fore wings, $ , 0.52 ; expanse of wings, 1.05 

 inches. 



Mendocino, Cal. (Behrens). , 



Somewhat like E. rotundopunctata in its shape and style of markings, 

 but with more acute hind wings, and nearly twice as large. 



Eupitiiecia luteata Packard. Plate 8, fig. 7. 



Eupitiiecia luleata Pack., Pioc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xi, 46, 1867 

 Eupitiiecia palpata Pack., Fifth Eep. Peal). Acad. Sc, 53, 1873. 



2 <S , 1 ? . — Fore wings long, more pointed than in E. miserulata. Palpi 

 unusually large and stout, broad at base, acute, extending out farther than the 

 width of the head; dark gray, with light scales; tips luteous. Head dark gray; 

 front edge black. Fore wings crossed by three blackish lines, very regularly 

 curved and parallel to each other, represented on the hind edge by a black dot 

 on the costa; the wing, in the middle and along the hind edge, somewhat lute- 

 ous; a broad, luteous, extra-discal space, with black speckles and strigse on the 

 veins; a submarginal row of white dots, shaded within with black, ending in 

 the usual geminate white dot; edge of wing black. Fringe very long, luteous, 

 cinereous, interrupted by broad, dark, square patches at the end of the veins. 

 Hind wings with four obscure dark lines, the second inclosing the discal dot; 

 discal dot black, distinct, edge black. Fringe as on fore wings. Abdomen 

 cinereous, with black scales; a black line on each side; tip squarely trun- 

 cated, though longer than broad, with long, straight, blackish scales. Beneath, 

 pale-ashen, with two outer black lines, and on hind wing four dark lines; 

 fringe with smaller dusky spots than above. Abdomen pale beneath. Legs 

 pale, uniform with the body and wings. 



Length of body, 0.35-0.38 ; fore wing, 0.40-0.43 ; expanse of wings, 

 0.85 inch. 



Caribou Island, Straits of Belle Isle, Labrador, July 14, 1860 (Packard); 

 Brunswick, Me. (Packard); West Farms, N.- Y. (Angus); Albany, N. Y. 

 (Lintner). 



This is not a common species. It may be readily recognized, as it differs 

 in the much-pointed wiugs; the large, stout, acute, black palpi; the four regu- 

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