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Glaucopteeyx roLATA Packard. Plate 8, fig. 19. 



Larentta polata Dnp., viii (v), 4(>J, pi. 190, Qg. 4, 1930. 



tarcntia Brullci Lelbbvre, Ann. Sue Ent. Franco, 399, pi. x, fi^. 8, 18:56. 



Malcmjdris polata Geyer in Hlibu., Zutr., v, 6, fig. 605, K06, 2, 1S37. 



Larontia Brullcata Dnp., Suppl., iv, 32, pi. 52, li£. 7, 1842. 



Larcntia polata Guen., Phal., ii, 271, 1857. 



" Pltassyle polaria Lioisd.", Cbristopb, Wien. Monatscb., 313, 1858. 



Lartniia polata Walk., List Lep. Mr. Mas., xxiv, 1173, xxvi, 1097, 1802. 



80 £ and 9. — Wings rather narrow, with t lie apex more acute and the 

 costa straigliter than usual, much more so than in G. magnoliata, its nearest 

 ally in the United States. Male antenna 1 simple, finely ciliated beneath ; palpi 

 large, broad, bushy beneath. Body and wings granite-gray, the ground-color 

 whitish-ash. Head and thorax with dark and light long scales, unusually 

 bushy; a black spot between the antennae. Fore wings crossed by eight more 

 or "less distinct dark lines; a blackish, thick, basal line, divided into four scal- 

 lops ; beyond, a broken, more diffuse line, succeeded by a linear, broken line. 

 Then conies the median, bread, dark band, paler in the middle, with golden 

 scales enclosing the distinct, black, discal dot. This discal area varies much 

 in extent ; the band being cither forked on the costa, where the discal dot is 

 very distinct, or dark, and closing over the discal area. Each side of the band 

 is irregularly scalloped ; beyond is a bread whitish 1 and, ith scattered 

 golden scales, as in the white spaces between the lines within and in the 

 median band. In the middle of the space is a row of black dots; beyond is 

 a dark, broad, submarginal band, sending points inward along the veins; 

 sometimes the band is double. It is edged externally by an indistinct, zig- 

 zag, white line. The edge of the wing is clear grayish-white, with a scries 

 of black marks on the ends of the veins. Fringe on both wings white, check- 

 ered with dark. Hind wings smoky-white, with a broad paler band just 

 beyond the middle, succeeded by a narrow dark band, or this band is contin- 

 uous with the dark edge of the wing, and contains an obscure, whitish, zigzag 

 line. Sometimes the whole wing is dusky, and the lighter bands and lines 

 are effaced. Beneath, uniformly stone-gray, but with a faint ochreous tinge; 

 the discal dots large and distinct on both wings; a costal dark spot beyond 

 the discal dot ; a submarginal, diffuse, dusky band on each wing. Legs dark- 

 gray, ringed with white. Abdomen with two rows of diffuse dark spots. 



Length of body, <?,0.45, 9,0 42; of (brewing, S, 0.57, 9, O.o5, expanse 

 of wings, 1.20 inches. 

 10 p n 



