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1 '..Ii' reddish-brown. Abdomen pale-gray, with a pair of diverging pale-brown 



spots mi each abdominal ring. Fore wings with eleven costal dark marks, 

 being the termination of as many lines crossing the wing with varying degrees 

 of distinctness ; two dark wavy lines near I he base of the winy, (he outer one 

 bordered externally with while; then succeeds a pale-brownish band, with a 

 few black dots, composing an obsolete line, hut well marked on the costa; 

 beyond, a row of white spots, beyond which is a broad ash band, like one just 

 beyond the discal dot; the latter is distinct, oval, black, and situated in a 

 hand of clear gray, bordered, with scalloped dark lines; beyond the extra- 

 diseal, broad, reddish-brown band is a row of white-spots, succeeded by two 

 rows of minute black dots on a clear ash ground ; a submarginal, distinct, 

 white, scalloped line, and a marginal, broken, black line, consisting of two 

 intervenular black dots; the dots arc externally edged with scattered groups 

 of reddish scales. The fringe is white, checkered with dusky. Hind wings 

 pale-ash; outer edge dusky, with a submarginal pale line; edge of the winy 

 and fringe as in fore wings; a minute, linear, discal dot. Beneath, four discal 

 dots of equal size and very distinct; both wings pale whitish-gray, with two 

 obscure extradiscal lines, and a submarginal, diffuse, half-effaced, dusky line 

 on both wings. 



Length of body, $, 0.40, 9, 0.55; fore wing, cf, 0.55, ?, 0.G4; expanse 

 of wings, 1.20-1.25 inches. 



California (Edwards); Sierra Nevada, Cal. (Crotch, M. C. Z.). 



This species differs very decidedly from any of the others in the rather 

 narrow, whitish, or ochreous-whitish, median line enclosing the discal dot. 

 This band is bordered on each side by a little darker band of equal width to 

 the median, all the bands being scalloped. The general hue of the fore wings 

 is pale ochreous grayish-brown, with many black and white dots and streaks. 

 In one female, the median line is almost pure white, with fine gray scales, and 

 the bands on each side are obsolete; the scallops represented by black marks 

 on the veins. Half-way between this and the submarginal white line is a 

 row of black dots. In another female, the fore wings are decidedly ochreous- 

 brown, with the median band much paler, and broken up into separate round 

 spots. 



