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brown, with a long while tooth opposite the dot; a deeply-scalloped, submar- 

 ginal, white line, much as above; fringe as above. Hind wings white, with 

 a discal dot and a submarginal, interrupted, double line, more or less obsolete, 

 and represented by scattered dots. 



Length of body, <f,0.40, 9,0.35; of fore wing, <?,0.48, 9,0.52; expanse 

 of wings, 1.05 inches. 



Sanzalito, Cal. (Behrens) ; California (Edwards). 



Kheumapjera rukicillata Packard. Plate 8, rig. 70. 



Melavthia mficiUata Gnen.!, Plial., ii. 382, 1857. 



Walk.!, List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxiv, 1272, 1862. 



4 S and 8 9. — Abdomen and ground-color of the wings clear white. 

 Head, thorax, and base of fore wings blackish, with blacker lines. Fore 

 wings with the base blackish, containing three zigzag black lines, with steel- 

 blue scales between; edge of the area shaded broadly with brown; the edge 

 is very irregular, with teeth projecting out on the veins, the tooth on the 

 median vein being small, not large and rounded as in R. brunneicillata ; a 

 clear, white, broad mesial band, with a small discal dot, limited externally by 

 a regularly-scalloped line, the largest scallop being in the second median 

 space; the white band contracts on the costa, being of the same width as on 

 the inner edge ; two parallel, submarginal, broad, white, scalloped lines, end- 

 ing in the large black-brown costo-apical patch; a dark patch filling two 

 scallops above the middle and another at the inner angle of the wing. Hind 

 wings with a discal dot ; an extradiscal line ; edge of the wings broadly 

 shaded with dark scales. 



Length of body, c?, 0.45, 9, 0.40; of fore wing, <?, 0.60, 9, 0.55; expanse 

 of wings, 1.25 inches. 



Quebec, Canada (Belanger) ; London, Canada (Saunders) ; Brunswick, 

 Me. (Packard); White Mountains, New Hampshire, July 20-30 (Scudder); 

 Kssex County, Vermont, (Cassino) ; Brookline, Mass., June 18 (Shurtleff) ; 

 Andover, Mass. (Sanborn); Amherst, Mass. (Goodell) ; Cambridge, Mass. 

 (Harris Coll.); Brooklyn, N. Y. (Graef) ; Albany, N. Y., May 29, June 24, 

 duly 21 (Lintner); Buffalo, N. Y. (Grote); Oneida, N. Y. (Havvley); Eastou, 

 Pa. (Stnltz) ; Lansing, Mich. (Cook). 



This fine species may be identified by the white middle band, the black- 

 ish head, thorax, and base of fore wings, and the large blackish costo-apical 

 patch. 



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