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OrtHOFIDONIA EXORNATA Packard. Plate 9, fig. 50. 



tovnaia Walk.!!!, \A*t Lep. Het. Br. Mus., x\n . Il-T, lsiy. 

 Cidaria albifusata Walk. ! ! !, Lisl Lep. Het. Br. Mus., sxiv, L728, 1862. 



1 <$ and 3 9. — Male antennae ciliated, the hair-; long, making the an- 

 tenna' look as it' finely pectinated. ( I round-color of body and wings ochreous- 

 white. Fore wings speckled densely with dark reddish-brown (of the same 

 hue as Eufidonia notataria). The tore wings are crossed by three irregular, 

 indistinct hands, made up of dark reddish-hrown patches, with lighter spaces 

 between where the dark scales are less numerous. The basal band, is nearly 

 as broad as the body is thick; it is straight, diffuse, broken. The middle of 

 the wing is clearer, though thickly speckled with dark scales; discal dot dis- 

 tinct. Just beyond, a broad, oblique, broken, diffuse band, interrupted by 

 the ochreous veins. Beyond this is a clear, whitish band, forked on the sub- 

 costal vein, and sending an oblique whitish streak to the apex. A submar- 

 ginal, white, scalloped line, the scallops tilled with masses of brown, forming 

 a row of rounded, conical spots. The margin of the wing is brown, with 

 white flakes; a row of distinct, black, marginal spots. Fringe brown, white 

 opposite the black marginal spots. Hind wings whiter than the anterior 

 pair, the dark scales forming scattered dots, and also arranged in three extra- 

 discal, diffuse, irregular hands, the subm'arginal one the most distinct, and 

 edged externally with a white, scalloped line. A dark, interrupted, distinct, 

 marginal, blackish line. Beneath, fore wings with the bands faintly re-appear- 

 ing; the marginal spots on both wings as distinct as above. Hind wings 

 with the brown spots and speckles more distinct than above ; the middle of 

 the three extradiscal bands is more distinct than the others. Discal dots 

 distinct on both pairs of wings. Abdomen concolorous with the hind wings. 

 Legs spotted and ringed with dark. 



Length of body, <?, 0.42, 9, 0.42; of fore wing, i, 0.58, 9, 0.58; ex- 

 panse of wings, 1.20 inches. 



Brunswick, Me., in pine-woods, June 1<> (Packard, .Mus. Peab. Acad. 

 8c): sides of Mount Washington, X. 11., early in July (Morrison) ; ••Trenton 

 Falls" (Walker). 



Why this interesting moth should have been mistaken by Mr. Walker for 

 either a Larentia or a Cidaria 1 cannot understand, as it has the characteristic 

 style of coloration of the Fidonias, but with a more rectangular apex to the 

 lore wings and ciliated male antenna 1 . Otherwise, the markings resemble 



