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caldot; the line is often broken, consisting of black dots, Beyond a sub- 

 marginal row of white dots the wing is blackish, and within the line it is 

 tinged with reddish-brown. Hind wings concolorous with the anterior pair, 

 and marked in the same manner. No basal line; extradiscal line curved 

 and scalloped. Edge of the wing dark. Beneath dark cream-color, suffused 

 with dark scales, with a common, diffuse, dusky shade, and edge of both wings 

 dusky. Discal dots distinct. Legs concolorous with the body, with dark 

 scales. Abdomen somewhat carinated, and with distinct lateral projections. 



Length of body, 3, 0.45, 9,0.45; of fore wing, 3, 0.45-0.56, 9, 0.53; 

 expanse of wings, 0.85-1.15 inches. 



Lawrence, Kansas (F. H. Snow); Missouri, April 19 (Riley); Waco, 

 Texas, May, June 29, July 12, October (Belfrage, Mus. Peab. Acad. Sc.) ; 

 Demopolis, Alabama (Grote). 



This is a very variable species, and it is liable to be mistaken for a 

 Noctuid moth, the wings are so unusually narrow and the outer edge so short. 

 It may, on this account, and from the presence of the large discal tuft of 

 dark, raised scales, be separated from its allied forms. It is very variable, and 

 it would be easy to " make'' three species out of the specimens I have before 

 me. The normal common form has, as a ground-color, a cream-tint; in others, 

 from Missouri and Texas, the whole insect is suffused with a chocolate-tint 

 so uniformly as to obscure the lines. The extradiscal line on both wings 

 differs in distance from the discal dot. Some specimens are intermediate in 

 hue between the dark and cream-colored examples. Some dark specimens 

 are so much smaller than the normal size as to be easily mistaken for a dis- 

 tinct species. 



Mr. Riley states that when the moth is at rest the abdomen is raised 

 almost perpendicular to the thorax, while the head is held downward. 



The moth is evidently double-brooded in Texas, according to the dates 

 given by Mr. Belfrage. The figure of the larva and pupa on plate 13 are 

 copied from Abbot. 



Tornos approximaria, sp. nov. Plate 9, fig. 40. 



2 3. — In this species, the wings are shorter and broader; the outer edge 

 of the fore wingslonger, with a rectangular apex, the. antennae with shorter 

 pectinations than in the other species. 



The body and wings are uniformly chocolate-brown, both above and 



