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faintly roseate; a basal, double-curved, black line, edged within with roseate; 

 beyond, a middle, black-brown, double line; the outer line very linear, enclosing 

 a roseate line, a lilt le dilated inward on the costa; diseal dot round, black, in 

 a clear hand of pale-ashen ; the extradiscal band, consisting of a sinuate black 

 line or lines, shading diffusely, especially at its lower end ; opposite the diseal 

 dot it nearly disappears, sending a zigzag faint line straight to the inner edge; 

 beyond is a row of black points, still beyond which is a submarginal, zigzag, 

 white line, most angulatcd near the apex; a submarginal low of black lunules 

 toward the apex, becoming linear in the middle and at the inner angle of the 

 wing; fringe pale-ashen, with a roseate tint, paler on the outer half. Hind 

 wings pale-ashen, with a slight roseate tinge, with numerous dark lines on the 

 hind edge; an outer row of dark dots, and a submarginal, zigzag, white line; 

 edge of wing well scalloped ; fringe long, with a small, rather obscure, diseal 

 dot ; beneath, pale-ashen, with thick, broad scales, luteous at base, scarcely 

 arranged in lines, and thicker at the hase of the wing. Body and legs beneath 

 pale. 



Length of body, 0.36 ; of fore wing, 0.46 ; expanse of, wings, 0.75-0.95 

 inch. 



New York (Angus, Mus. Peab. Acad. 8c); Wisconsin (Mus. tVal>. Acad. 

 Sc.) ; Central Missouri, at light in June (Riley); Waco, Tex., March 21-29, 

 September 21-29. 



It is evident from these dates that it is double-brooded in Texas. 



A variety (plate 8, fig. 65) received from Texas (Belfrage), and taken 

 March 12, is rather large, expanding 0.95 inch, with the fore wings more acute 

 than usual. The general tint is as usual ; but the basal line is darker and 

 heavier, the middle line very broad and black, twice as wide' as usual, and the 

 outer side of the median band is heavier and darker than usual. 



1 confess that at first I regarded this species as an Ochyria, closely allied 

 to O. designata. It differs in the large number of lines in the middle of the 

 fore wings and the many-lineated scalloped hind wings. It is closely allied 

 to the European P. polygrammata. 



Phibalapteeyx intestinata Guenee. Plate 9, fig. 13. 



Phibalapteryx intestinaia Guo:i.!, Pbal., ii, 432, L857. 



Walk.!, List Lep. ll.-l. Br. Mus., xxv, 1337, 1862. 



2 $ and 4 9. — A large species, with the fore wings large, the costa 

 quite full toward the apex, and the outer edge very oblique. It is dull ash- 



