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Body and fore wings pale-gray, the latter crossed by numerous dark-brown 

 lines; a double basal line, scarcely bent on the costa, succeeded by a broad, 

 diffuse, dusky band, irregular on the edges ; just before the middle of the 

 wing, and separated from the broad band by a narrow whitish space, is a 

 double line, irregularly sinuous in its course; on the outer half of the wing 

 are four indistinct scalloped lines, especially marked on the veins ; a large, 

 dark apical cloud and two twin patches below the apex; fringe dirty-white, 

 checkered indistinctly with brown. Hind wings white, with a few dusky 

 scales near the outer edge ; a black marginal line; fringe white. No discal 

 dots to be seen above, but beneath are four, those on the fore wings being 

 linear; a slightly-marked extradiscal scalloped line; but the entire under side 

 is dirty-white. 



Length of body, 9, 0.35; of fore wing, 9, 0.58; expanse of wings, 1.15 

 inches. 



Long Island, N. Y. (H. K. Morrison). 



Tins species belongs to the same section as L. montanata, but the fore 

 wings are still broader and the markings very different. It also differs in the 

 hind wings being unspotted, except the usual marginal line, and in the absence 

 of the discal dots on the upper side. 



Lobophora montanata Packard. Plate 9, fig. 21. 



Lobophora montanata Pack., Sixth Rep. Peab. Acad. Sc, 40, 1874. 



3 9. — Closely allied to L. halterata and carpinata of Europe and Asia. 

 The fore wings large and broadly triangular; the hind wings very small, 

 short, and triangular; the apex much pointed. Body and wings whitish-ash. 

 Plead and palpi darker. Fore wings with a broad, dark, basal band, widest 

 on the costa; a median paler band, dark on the costa, and enclosing the sub- 

 linear, rather large, discal spots; edge of wing with a broad, blackish border, 

 the veins darker ; a row of fine black dots on the extreme edge ; fringe white 

 on both wings. Hind wings dull-white, with a faint, dusky margin along the 

 outer edge ; a faint, minute, discal dot ; a very narrow black line on the 

 extreme edge of the fringe; beneath whitish, tinged with pale flesh-color 

 along the costa; discal dots larger than above, distinct; beyond are two 

 dusky, scalloped lines, the inner sinuous and angulated below the costa, the 

 outer most distinct on the venules; these lines common to both wings. Fore 

 legs dusky ; hind legs whitish. 



