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concolorous with the body. Abdomen with two black spots on the second 



segment. 



Length of body, <?, ?, 9, 0.50 ; of lore wing, J, 0.53, 9, 0.62; expanse 

 of wings, 1.25 inches. 



Boston, June (Sanborn); Beverly, Mass., June 27 (Burgess); Salem, 

 Mass. (Packard). 



This pretty species is at once recognizable by the two rows of black 

 specks and the peculiar lilac tint of the wings. 



Lozogramma defluata Walker. Plate 9, fig. 59. 



Lozogmmma defludria Walk. !! !, List Lep. Het. Br. Mas., xxiii, 984, 1861. 



4 <? and 12 9. — Fore wings acutely pointed and distinctly bent on the 

 outer edge. Body and wings pale lilac-ash. Head and palpi tinged with 

 reddish; vertex concolorous with the rest of the head. Fore wings densely 

 speckled with lilac-brown; two distinct, continuous, darker lines, the inner 

 straight, fading out on inner side; the outer very slightly sinuous, narrow, 

 pale, edged on each side with brown. Between the two lines paler than the 

 outer border of the wing. A faint, very sinuous, submarginal line, easily 

 overlooked. A pale line at base of fringe, which is concolorous with the dark 

 margin of the wing. Hind wings paler than anterior pair; discal clot distinct, 

 a slight brown line beyond. Beneath tinged with ochreous, especially on the 

 costa and veins; with scattered speckles; discal spots large and distinct. 

 Outer row of venular dots distinct; beyond, the wing is decidedly ochreous, 

 but the fringe is pale, lilac. Legs tinged with ochreous. 



Length of body, 6, 0.52, 9, 0.50; of fore wing, <?, 0.65, 9, 0.62 inch. 



Brunswick, Me., end of May and early June (Packard). 



This species is very abundant in dry fields and open places in pine- 

 woods, rising suddenly and flying with a powerful headlong flight, settling 

 down again at a rod or two from where it started. It may be known by the 

 two broad, brown, continuous shades crossing the fore wings, by the lilac 

 tint of the wings, and the ochreous under side. It differs from the European 

 L. petraria, to which it is closely allied, by the more speckled wings, acute 

 tips, and more sinuate outer line. The other species of the genus seem 

 peculiar to America. 



This moth is so much like the European L. petraria that I reproduce 

 Newman's description of the larva of that species, as that of defluata should 



