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wings being so much mottled, and in the wanl of well-defined black lines on 

 the fore wings, and of any (races of one on the hind wings. The fore wings 

 are more acute than usual, and the enter edge is very long and oblique. 



Phasiane snoviata Packard. Plate 10, fig. 1. 



Not Panagra subminiaia Pack., Proc. Bust. Sue. Nat. Ili^t.. x\ i. •-'•"., 187 1. 

 Maearia subminiaia Pack., Sixth Rep. Peab. Acad. S i.. 49, 1-7 1. 



2 £ . — This is a grayish moth, suffused with vermilion on the body and 

 wings. It agrees very closely with Semiothisa s-signata, from 'Texas, in the 

 form of the body and the peculiar cu1 of the wings; the fore wings being entire 



on the outer edge, and the hind wings rounded and not angulated. The head 

 and prothorax are not discolorous with the rest, of the body. The antennae 

 are not so well ciliated as in Semiothisa s-signata. Fore wings vermilion- 

 gray, wiih a basal, regularly-curved, black line, ending on the subcostal line 

 rather nearer the large oval discal dot than the base of the wing. No traces 

 of a median line. Outer line black, regularly sinuous, curving once outward 

 opposite the discal spot, and once inward below, widening on the inner edge, 

 and growing narrow and faint on the costa; it is faintly-edged with vermilion 

 on the inside, and externally is accompanied with a broad, dusky, blackish 

 shade extending more than half-way to the outer edge. Hind wings con- 

 colorous with anterior pair, a little more clouded, with no lines. Beneath, 

 decidedly tinged with vermilion, especially costa and veins, with no lines, 

 except a marginal, dark, diffuse shade common to both wings. Legs concol- 

 orous with the body. 



Length of body, <? 0.40; of fore wing, <i , 0.47; expanse of wings, 

 1.00 inch. 



Lawrence, Kans. (Prof. F. II. Snow). 



Resembling P. meadiata, it differs in its rather more decided vermilion 

 tinge and the much more sinuate outer line. The wings are more speckled, 

 and the body and wings are shorter and thicker than in /'. meadiata. The 



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wings in the latter species are much clearer, and the two dark bands much 

 more conspicuous. 



On reviewing the generic characters of Phasiane, 1 find 1 was mistaken 

 in referring this species to Semiothisa (J\lacaria\ and consequently change 

 the specific name to snoviata in honor of the discoverer of the species. 



Aunt her specimen from Lawrence. Kans., received from Professor Snow, 



