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i ii of a point nearer the apex than 1 1 1 < • similar line in other species, whence it 

 bends nearly al righl angles on the costa; it is tawny-brown, edged on each 

 side with yellowish, with a dark external shade, which stops al the bend; the 

 extreme costal portion of the line being brown, and as if made up of a row 



of closely-connected heads. A small, transversely ovate, discal dot. No 

 middle line. A faint marginal row of dots on both wings. Hind wings 

 scarcely paler than the anterior pair, with a faint discal dot and a single dusky 

 brown line, which is distinctly bent opposite the discal dot, and terminates 

 on the costa. Under side of both wings as usual in the genus, being gray, 

 mottled with whitish, and on the costal regions of both wings mottled with 

 ochreous; the veins also speckled with oehreous. Legs as usual, and concol- 

 orous with the body. 



Length of body, S, 0.47; of fore wing, (?,0.55; expanse of wings. 1.00 

 inch. 



Albany, N. Y., May 2!> (Lintner); Missouri (Riley). 



This pretty species differs from an\ others 1 have seen by the curved 

 outer line reaching much nearer the apex and there becoming bent at a con- 

 siderable angle, and only the brown portion of the line continued on to the 

 costa. Mr. Grote describes in his female specimen a faint median line on 

 the fore wings, and a faint submarginal line "appearing as a vague festooning", 

 and a single line on the hind wing distinctly bent opposite the discal dot. 



The example from Missouri has the markings of the New York speci- 

 men's, but the extiadiscal line ends farther from the apex than usual, the. line 

 behind being a lit t lo less oblique. The wings arc also darker, and of exactly 

 the shade of P. trifasciata, to which the Missouri specimen shows a slight 

 tendency to approximate; the under side of the wings in the Missouri 

 example being scarcely distinguishable from that of P. trifasciata. 



Piiasiane trifasciata Packard. Plate 10, fig. 4. 



Phasiane trifasciata Pack., Sixth Rep. Peab. Acad. Sc, 4G, 1874. 



1 3. — This species does not differ structurally from the others of the 

 genus, except that the apex of the fore wings is perhaps slightly more rounded. 

 Hind wings and legs as in the other species. Body and wings deep mouse- 

 gray. Fore wings with t he basal yellowish line st raight. 'The median dusky- 

 ash line rather diffuse, straight, and inclosing the distinct discal ringlet. 

 The outer line almost straight, being very slightly sinuous, tawny-yellow; the 



