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Palpi large and stout. Body and tore wings of a peculiar wood or nut-brown 

 color, resembling the peculiar shade of Hibernia tiliaria Harris, or of a 

 decided pale gray. Head a little paler than the palpi and thorax. Abdomen 

 of the same color as the thorax, with two obscure rows of dark spots. Fore 

 wings nut-brown, with fine, dark, venular dots arranged in numerous obscurely 

 marked lines. A dark, oblique, apical line. A broad, deeper shade crosses 

 the middle of the wing ; the inner edge situated on the inner one-third of 

 the wing, and quite regularly curved outward; the outer edge situated on the 

 outer third of the wing; straight, with one large, obtusely triangular tooth in 

 the middle of the wing. The edge within is made up of deeply-scalloped, 

 fine lines, and the middle of the band is occupied with a row of ringlets, 

 which increase in size toward the costa. A very faint, finely zigzag, submar- 

 ginal, pale line. A row of marginal, intervenular, black dots. Hind wings 

 slightly paler than the anterior pair, with numerous fine dots arranged as on 

 the fore wings, but obsolete toward the base of the wings; a single, much- 

 curved, darker line just beyond the middle of the wing, the line at its bend 

 forming an obtuse angle; beneath, scarcely paler than above, with no lines 

 or any markings except the venular dots like those above. 



Length of body, S , 0.43, ?, 0.42; of fore wing, <?,0.G3, 9, 0.G3; expanse 

 of wings, 1.16 inches. 



New York, August 24 (Mead) ; California (Edwards) ; Sanzalito, Cal., 

 Feb. 9, April, May 3 (Behrens). 



This differs from all the other species known to me in the well-pectinated 

 antennae, the subfalcate wings, and its peculiar nut-brown color, with the 

 single, broad, darker band, in the middle of which is a row of ringlets. 



The New York example, received from Mr. Mead, does not differ from 

 those from California. 



Ociiyeia aurasaria Packard. Plate 8, tigs. 57, 58. 



■ — ? "abrasaria H.-Sch.. Neue Schni., '-'7, May, 1856 ; Schtu. Eur., vi, 137, 1856." 



" Cidaria abrasaria Stautliuger, Stett. Eut. Zeit., 3'J5, 1861." 

 Coremia ligularia Guen., Phal., ii, 417, 1857. 



? " baicalata Brem., Lep. Ost-Siberiens, 80, vii, 15, 1864." 



Cidaria nigrofasciala Pack., Proo. Post. Soc. Nat. Hist., xi, 49, 1867. 



3 $ and 3 ?. — Front full, hairy, cinereous, with black scales. Palpi 

 long and slender, porrect, extending far beyond the front; second joint bushy, 

 broad at the tip; third joint acutely conical, depressed. Antennae dark, 



