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men slender, acutely conical at lip. Body brown-ash (sometimes quite pale). 

 Fore wings pale-ash; base of wing dark, especially toward the basal line, 

 which is curved outward in its general course ; il is verj zigzag, with a sharp 

 tooth projecting outward jusl behind the costal edge, a much larger, sharp, 

 jagged tooth in the discal space ; jusl below the median vein is a smaller, 

 blunter tooth ; the line sends an angle inward on ihe internal vein, being 

 directed outward, where it ends on the inner edge; beyond is a broad, distinct, 

 russet-brown hand, varying in width and curved outward in its general course 

 (the brown shade is often wanting, and the hand is concolorous with the resl 

 ol' tiie wing); the outer edge of the hand is very zigzag, there being an acute 

 tooth above ami just below the subcostal vein, and another large tooth in the, 

 submedian space ; it is bent outward on the inner edge ; the outer edge of 

 this brown band tonus the inner edge of the broad median band, which is 

 paler in (he middle, con colorous with the rest of the wing, and with two 

 central lines, converging as usual below the median vein, and forming three 

 ringlets; on the sides, the hand is blackish, especially so on the front half of 

 the outer edge, where it forms abroad, oblong, black patch. Discal dot 

 usually distinct ; the outer edge of the band sends a broad jagged projection 

 along the first median venule, the distance from the point to the edge of the 

 wing being a little greater than the thickness of the thorax: from the costa 

 to this point, the line is directed more or less, usually very, oblicmely out- 

 ward ; just below the subcostal vein is a sharp sinus, followed by an acute 

 angle on the independent venule; in the discal and first median spaces, each, 

 is a large tooth, the lower one narrower, and both much smaller, and. forming 

 a more pointed projection than in P. prunata ; below this projection, the 

 line retreats either very obliquely, without much of a curve inward, or witli a 

 decided curve ; the line is usually scalloped; a long scallop in the second 

 median space, but not projecting beyond the base of the scallop in front of 

 it; the line is ct\u:<'(\ externally with white. Beyond the median hand is a 

 broad, distinct, russet-brown band, when obsolete leaving a large, subapical, 

 brown patch (sometimes the brown hand is entirely wanting); a submar- 

 ginal, zigzag, white line, the angles smaller, less distinct, than in /'. prunata; 

 the white points are succeeded by a marginal row ofblack triangular points; 

 a distinct, oblique, black, apical line, with no dark cloud below as in prunata 

 vars. Zugubrata, destinata, and J', mucronata (in this and some other respects 

 species approaches Hydriomena); the marginal black line is divided into 



