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is a marked variety; the two dark hands on the fore wings being obsolete, 

 but the discal dot is present, and a dark reddish-brown, broad, sinuous shade 

 replaces the dark smoke-colored shade in the normal specimen; otherwise the 

 two specimens do not differ. 



Phasiane meadiata Packard. Plate 10, fig. 2. 



Phasiane meadiata Pcick., Sixth Rep. Peab. Acad. So., 47, 1874. 



1 c?. — This is very closely allied to the European P. ripper tar ia Dup., 

 the style of markings being identical. Body and wings carneous-gray. Fore 

 wings with light and dark streaks on extreme edge, especially marked oppo- 

 site the lines. Two broad, conspicuous, dark lines not reaching the subcostal 

 vein; the inner slightly curved, disappearing in the middle of the discal space; 

 the outer sinuous, ending on the last subcostal venule, shaded broadly beyond 

 with brown. Discal dot rather large,' fain'. Hind wings concolorous with 

 fore wings; a faint discal dot, and beyond a reddish-brown line, which disap- 

 pears opposite the dot. Beneath, more tawny-reddish than above, both wings 

 mottled with tawny and pale ash, veins tawny- reddish, the discal dots more 

 conspicuous than above, and the two lines on fore wings very faint. No lines 

 on hind wings. 



Length of body, J, 45; of fore wing, S, 0.55; expanse of wings, 1.10 

 inches. 



Denver, Colo., June 1 (T. L. Mead). 



This differs from all the other species by the two blackish, shortened, 

 sinuous lines, the outer one shaded externally, and in the body and wings 

 being flesh-colored, almost reddish, with a faint vermilion tinge. The fore 

 wings are rather short. The antenna- are densely ciliated. 



The artist has made the line on the hind wings sinuous; it should be 

 nearly straight. 



Phasiane mellistrigata Grote. Plate 10, fig. 3. 



Phasiane mellistrigata Grote, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat, So., 12, pi. 1, fig. 11, 9 , 1873. 



2 6 — Of the usual form of the genus, the apex of the anterior pair of 

 wings moderately obtuse. Body and wings mouse-colored, slightly paler 

 than in the other species. Fore wings with the inner line at the usual dis- 

 tance from the base, very slightly curved, pale tawny-brown, a narrow yel- 

 lowish edging within. The outer line makes one well-marked curve, reach- 



