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but slightly scalloped, being rather finely dentate. Compared with P. undu- 

 hita, the wings are much smaller, the body rather larger, and the hind wings 

 more deeply and acutely dentate. Body and wings dark wood-brown, the 

 wings covered by fine, dark, irregularly-scalloped lines, forming dark venular 

 points. Fore wings with an indistinct, basal, whitish line, angulated on the 

 costa; a similar one beyond, waved between the venules; and an outer white, 

 irregular, scalloped line, there being two grand scallops projecting outward 

 in the first and second median cells; a submarginal, obscure, half-effaced, 

 zigzag line; three rows of white venular points (often obsolete) between these 

 last two lines ; a marginal row of white dots between the end of the venules 

 and the hind wings at the bottom of each scallop; fringe dark-brown; under 

 side pale-gray, dusted, and with five or six wavy, blackish, obscure lines, with 

 dusky scales between, the outer submarginal line forming a broad, blackish 

 shade on the fore wings, mingled with the broad, blackish border; also a 

 submarginal row of whitish points on both wings. 



Length of body, $ , 0.52, 9, 0.45; of fore wing, $ . 0.G0, 9 , 0.62; expanse 

 of wings, 1.35 inches. 



Virginia (Graef) ; North Carolina (Dr. Kneeland, Mus. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist.) ; Georgia and Alabama (Grote) ; Texas, July, September, and October 

 (Belfrage) ; "Florida, Georgia" (Walker); Bermuda Islands (J.M.Jones). 



This species may be known by the dark- brown color and the unusually 

 blackish lines and border of the wings beneath. The fore wings are much 

 as in P. californiata, but the hind wings are much less deeply scalloped. 



Philereme californiata Packard. Plate 9, fig. 15. 



Scotoma californiata Pack., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xiii, 399, 1871; xvi, pi. 1, fig. 12, 1874. 



It is dull-ash; palpi blackish. Fore wings crossed by very fine, numer- 

 ous, wavy, parallel, black lines; base of wing dull-ash, crossed by a slender 

 black line, and edged with black, beyond which is a pale, whitish line, suc- 

 ceeded by a broad dusky band, and beyond is a whitish band, situated on the 

 basal third of the wing; beyond are four black, wavy fines, crossing the 

 middle of the wing; three submarginal, black, finer lines, and well marked 

 on the costa, below consisting of venular black dots; a marginal, zigzag, dis- 

 tinct, black line; fringe dull-ash. Hind wings clear, much paler, without 

 any bands except four short, wavy lines near the inner angle ; a black, zigzag, 



