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 Synopsis of the Species. 



White, bands yellow A.albogilraria. 



White, bauds brown, apex tipped with In-own A. brunneifasciala 



White, front of head brown, base and middle of wings brown and ochreous A. lueata. 



AsthenA albogilvaeia Packard. Plate 10, far. 41. 



Acidalia albogilvaria Morrison!.'!, Proc. Bust. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvi, 1!>4, 1874. 

 Corycia Iriseriata Pack., Sixth Eep. IVab. Acad. Sc, 50, 1B74. 



4 £ and 4 9. — Pure white. Front of head with a lew ochreous scales. 

 Antennae white, faintly ringed with dark. Eyes black. Fore wings slightly 

 dusky beneath on base of costa, with three rather broad ochreous lines; the 

 inner a little wavy, regularly curved, the two outer wavy, the middle with 

 three scallops pointing outward and the line about twice as wide as the outer; 

 the lines are sometimes equidistant; sometimes the two outer are nearer to- 

 gether. Hind wings with two wavy lines, the inner very near the discal dot; 

 fringe white, discal dots black. Beneath, pure white, with the two outer lines 

 indicated on the. costa. Hind wings pure white. 



Length of body, «?, 0.30, 9, 0.25; of fore wing, S, 0.3G, 9, 0.40; 

 expanse of wings, 0.80 inch. 



White Mountains, N. H. ; Beverly, Mass., feeds on the elm (Burgess); 

 Andover, Mass., July (Sanborn, Mus. Bost. Soc. Nat, Hist.) ; Amherst, Mass. 

 (Goodell); Mount Tom, Mass., July 2 (Morrison) ; Albany, N. Y. (Lintner); 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. (Graef ) ; West Farms, N. Y. (Angus). 



This pretty species may be at once recognized by the three sinuous, 

 broad, ochreous lines on the tore wings, and two similar ones on the hind 



wings. 



ASTHENA BRUNNEIKASCIATA, sp. HOV. Plate 10, fig. 42. 



4 9. — This species closely resembles the eastern .A. albogilvaria, but is 

 rather larger, though the shape of the wings is the same. Body and wings 

 snow-white. Antenna? spotted with blackish above; a pale-brown transverse 

 line in front of the antennae. Fore wings with three irregular, more or less 

 interrupted, sinuous, pale-brown bands, arranged as in the preceding species. 

 Apex brownish. Beneath white; the lines do not re-appear, but the costal 

 region is brownish. 



Length of body, 9, 0.28; of fore wings, 9, 0.45; expanse of wings, 

 0.90 inch. 



Victoria, Vancouver Island, July (Crotch, Mus. Cornp. Zool.). 



