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cost;i straight, apex sub rectangular, outer edge not very oblique, very slightly 

 benl mi the firsl median venule. Hind wings with the apex slightly pro- 

 duced, with the outer edge full, convex, and distinctly scalloped. The fore 

 wings in the female have the outer edge more oblique, while the hind wings 

 are less convex on the outer edge. The venation is very different from thai 

 of Fidonia, justifying the separation effected by Lederer from thai genus; there 

 are liul two subcostal veins, of equal length. The subcostal areole is long, 

 linear, curved. The costal vein unites with the subcostal in the middle of 1 he 

 areole. The apical cell is unusually large. The anterior discal vein is curved 

 and directed inward toward the origin of the independent vein, while the 

 posterior discal is long and oblique, not curved. Hind legs short, with tibiae 

 slightlj swollen; spurs long; tarsi nearly as long as the tibiae. Coloration 

 brown; hind wings ochreous, with darker bands. 



While this genus differs from Fidonia in the more bushy, plumose an- 

 tennse and fuller front, these characters would seem artificial, but a glance at 

 the venation shows that the separation is a natural one. Our E. Faxonii 

 differs very slightly from the European E. atomaria, and the genus as thus 

 constituted is well circumscribed. 



EMATURGA FAXONII Packard. Plate !>, liu-. 48. 

 Fidonia Faxonii Miimt. 1'icn-. Host. Soc, \;it. Hist.,xi,S*,5, lb(i9. 



5 J and H 9. — Body and wings dark ochreous rusty-brown. Antenna 

 darker. Male fore wings with three dark, diffuse, indistinct bands, the basal 

 curved, the middle and extradiscal much alike, and often converging on the 

 inner edge. Along the extradiscal line, the wing is powdered more or less 

 distinctly with white scales, and again along the submarginal dark line. 

 Fringe concolorous with the wing, lighter or darker as the wing varies in 

 hue. Hind wings dull orange or reddish-ochreous, thickly speckled with 

 black, with three black bands, the middle one distinctly scalloped, the points 

 extended along the veins. The outer line is merged with the broad brown 

 border of the wing. Beneath, both wings alike deep ochreous. and crossed 

 1>\ three brown shades common to both wings, the outer one often ending in 

 the middle of the wing near the independent vein, and also nearly obsoleti 

 on l he. hind wings. Legs concolorous with the under side of I he body. 



The females differ in having the wings a little more pointed, the hinder 

 pair especially having the apex acute ami the outer edge straighter, much less 



