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Head, antennae, palpi and prothorax deep reddish-ochreous. Wings and resl 

 of body pale chocolate-brown. Fore wings pale gray on basal two-thirds, 

 with chocolate strigse, beyond the third outer line uniformly chocolate. The 

 three lines parallel, equidistant, slightly tremulous, chocolate, marked on costa 

 with darker spots. The oblong, deep velvety-brown costo-apical spot is Long 

 and narrow, and has a faint, ferruginous, submarginal line leading from it to 

 the middle of the wing. A dark line edges the scallop below the apex. 

 Fringe slightly darker than the wing. Hind wings with the same markings 

 as anterior pair, outer half being chocolate-color, with two pale, chocolate, 

 wavy lines, midway between which is the distinct discal dot. Outer edge 

 bent at right angles in the middle, the angle larger than usual and acute. 

 Beneath, uniformly deep ochreous-yellow, speckled with brown on both wings, 

 with an inner, brown, common, sinuous line, more sinuous on hind than on 

 fore wings, and on the latter touching the large, distinct, lunate discal dot. A 

 parallel basal line on fore wings. An acute, broad, brown shade common to 

 both wings, consisting of a sinuous line, with a broad shade beyond, widening 

 toward the costa on both wings. Apical region clear yellow. Marginal black 

 dots distinct. Fringe on both wings brown, checkered with darker. Discal 

 dots on hind wings distinct. Legs yellowish, spotted with brown. 



Length of body, <?, 0.46, 9, 0.40-0.50; of fore wing, S , 0.G0, 9, O.oO- 

 0.G3 ; expanse of wings, 1.20 inches. 



Norway, Me. (S. I. Smith, Mus. Comp. Zool.); Brunswick, Me. (Pack- 

 ard); Natick, Mass., July 21 (Stratton); West Farms, N. Y. (Angus); Phil- 

 adelphia, Pa. (Ainer. Ent. Soc. and Grote). 



This fine species, supposed by Haworth to be indigenous to England, is 

 not very common. The acutely falcate fore wings and acutely-angled hind 

 wings, with the broad chocolate outer margin and bright-yellow under side, 

 separate it from any allied form. 



I am indebted to Mr. Grote for the comparison of a specimen with 

 Walker's type of M. consepta in the British Museum. Walker gives no local- 

 ity for it. M. (iuence's type 1 have examined. 



The specimen from Norway, Me., is much smaller than usual, and in 

 coloration somewhat resembles S. mivorata. It differs from those above 

 described in having the third line on both wings unusually distinct, very wavy. 

 The reddish-chocolate band beyond is broader, more diffuse, and much less 

 distinctly marked on the costa. The edge of both wings is much paler. 



