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of the line being whiter than usual, bul the brown patches present in the 



other specimens and then clouding the yellow band are present; the median 

 dark band is very narrow, and wants the discal and subraedian sinuses so 

 conspicuous in the other specimens. In size and the cut of the wing, the 

 specimen does not show any varietal differences. 



In one of two specimens received from Mr. Lintner (2444), the outer 

 yellow band is wanting; in the' other (G8), the two bands are rusty -yellow, 

 ami the middle, broad, dark band is suffused below the costa with a decided 

 brick-red, and the notch runs into and touches the discal dot, being as well 

 marked as in Guenee's figure. 



Though I did not see the types of M. Guenee in his collection, his 

 figure and descriptions leave no doubt in my mind as to the correctness of 

 this determination. It was also thus determined by Mr. Sanborn. Walker's 

 type I saw in the British Museum under the name jlammiferata. 



Petkophora mancipata Packard. Plate 8, fig. 45. 



Cidaria mancipata Gnen., Phal., ii, 4C8, 1857. 



Cidaria suhochreata Pack., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., siii, 400, 1871. 



3 $ and 4 ?. — Palpi long, acute. Body and wings dull rusty-brown, 

 with scattered white scales. Head, palpi, and body concolorous. Fore wings 

 dull rusty-brown, a darker band across the base; the outer edge zigzag, con- 

 sisting of three acute points ; that in the median space the largest, very acute ; 

 beyond is a paler rusty-brown band, which is succeeded by a little wider 

 dusky band, becoming narrower on the inner edge; a lighter median band 

 enclosing the oval discal dot; this band varies in being brown or white, and 

 is, in the female, twice as wide as in the male, and varies in width in the 

 latter; this median dark or white region is scalloped externally with a large, 

 toothed, subacute projection in the middle of the wing, being straight on the 

 costa and on the inner edge; in some specimens, this outer edge of the 

 median band is clearly resolved into two, and in the single female three, 

 brown, parallel, contiguous, wavy lines; the outer edge of the wing is clear 

 rusty -brown, with a row of obscure dusky patches half-way between the 

 scalloped line and the outer edge of the wing; a submarginal row of longi- 

 tudinal, intervenular, black, linear spots; a black line at the base of the fringe, 

 and a dusky line along the fringe. Hind wings dusky-ochreous, brighter on 

 the outer third of the wing: a slight discal dot; a brown interrupted line 

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