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beyond is a broad, diffuse, submarginal, russet-brown band ; the one just 

 before the discal dot largest, square. Middle and outer margin of the wing 

 brownish; a submarginal, pale, obscure line; a few black strigse and dots on 

 the median and internal veins on basal half of the wing ; and a short row of 

 black venular dots just beyond the discal dot, which is very distinct, on a 

 cinereous ground. Margin of wing black; fringe long, dusky, with interven- 

 ular black linear spots. Hind wings cinereous, with black speckles at base, 

 outer third brownish ; a short, wavy, whitish, geminate line, becoming obso- 

 lete toward the middle of the wing, with a single pale dot on the inner angle; 

 no discal dot. Beneath brownish, especially externally ; discal dot very dis- 

 tinct, small on hind wings; an extra-discal narrow band and a marginal broad 

 brown band common to both wings. 



Length of body, 0.28 ; length of fore wing, 0.38 ; expanse of wings, 0.82 

 inch. 



Natick, Mass., July 17 (Stratton). 



This is not a common species, but one example having as yet occurred. 

 It may be known by the rusty-brown wings, an outer, pale, curved line, includ- 

 ing black dots ; by the costa being paler, with five black spots ; and by the 

 want of the usual zigzag, waved, pale, and dark lines, the extra-discal line being 

 regularly curved opposite the discal dot. 



Eupithecia Behrensata, sp. n. Plate 9, fig. 5. 



1 $ . — A very large species. Head, body, and wings of a uniform gray ash- 

 color, being of much the hue of E. absynthiata ; without the usual lines and 

 markings, being the most clear gray species yet known from California. Both 

 wings very much elongated toward the apex, being narrow, oval, and rather 

 more pointed than in E. subapicata. Fore wings with a prominent, sublinear, 

 rather thick, black, discal dot. No costal spots. Two very faint, narrow, 

 intra-discal lines, very oblique below the costa. Beyond the discal spot are 

 traces of four very oblique, black, parallel lines, and of a submarginal, white, 

 wavy line, with a bent, white, narrow spot near the inner angle. A taint 

 discal line, and traces of the beginnings of two or three lines, on the hind 

 wings. On the second segment of the abdomen is a prominent black band, 

 and there is a dorsal and lateral row of black dots. The under side of the 

 wings exactly as the upper, except that the discal dots are much smaller, and 

 there are no traces of lines. 



