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PsAMMATODES EREMIATA (iuenee. Plate 9, fig. 73. 



Psammatodes premiata Guen., Pbal., ii. 109, 1857. 



Walk., Lep. Hot. Br. Mas., xxiii. 971, 1861. 



."> <J and 2 9. — Male antennae ciliated ; female simple. Body and wings 

 uniformly soft granite-gray, with a slighl pearl-colored tinge. The fore wings 

 have three parallel hrown lines, the basal angled in the discal space; the 

 middle line is a little nearer to the basal than the outer line, which is slightly 

 sinuous. A row of minute, dark, marginal spots. Fringe on both wings 

 concolorous with the wings. Hind wings exactly cancolorous with the 

 anterior pair; the inner line runs very near a faint discal dot; the extradiscal 

 line is benl slightly in the middle. Beneath, the wing is pearly-gray, mottled 

 with small white spots, and the fringe is paler than above, finely checkered 

 with darker. Faint discal dots present on both wings, and an outer faint line, 

 broader than above, common to both wings. 



Length of body, S, 0.42, 9, 0.40: of fore wings, <f , 0.46, 9, 0.48 ; ex- 

 panse of wings, 0.90-0.M2 inch. 



Natick, Mass., May 14 and August 2 (Stratton) ; Center, near Albany, 

 N. Y., August 5 and 6 (Lintner) ; Ohio, 111. (Morrison). 



This moth is not uncommon, and is evidently double-brooded. It may- 

 be recognized by its elosc resemblance to some species of Phasianc, from all 

 of which it differs in the two brown lines on the hind wings. It differs in 

 the same respect from any species of Semiothisa. From S. ocellinata and 

 S. 8-signata, allied forms, it differs in the more obtuse fore wings, the slightly 

 more curved costa, and the style of markings. 



I am indebted to Mr. Morrison for the identification of this species. 



SEMIOTHISA Hiibner. Plate 3, fig. 6', 6a. 



Pharmacia lliibu. (in part), Verz., 2!>S, 1818. 

 Semiothisa Iliibn. (in part), Verz., 298, 1818. 

 "Eutropa and Parasemia Hiibn., Zutrage." 

 Macaria Curtis, Brit. Ent., vi, 132, 1826. 

 Ennomoi Treits. (in part), vi (i), 3, 1837. 

 PhUobia Dup., Lep. France, viii (iv), 19."), 1829. 

 Miliaria Stepb., Noiuencl. Br. Ins., !.">, lsii'.l. 



Boisd., Gen. Iud., 186, 1840. 



B.-Sch., Srlun. Eur., iii, r.ii, 1847. 

 Macaria Steph., Cat. Br. Lep., 227, 1850. 



cum.. Pbal., ii, 06, I-..:. 



Walk.. List Lep. Het. Br. Mub., xxiii, 878, 1*01. 



Male antenme simple (except in S. dislocaria, where they are well pecti- 

 nated), ciliated, rarely with rudimentary pectinations; in female, simple. 



