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ASTHENA LDCATA (lueiire. Plate 10, fig. 43. 



Jathena lucata Guen., Phal., i. 137, l s .">7. 



Walk., Lisl Lep. Hot. Br. Una., xxii, 673, 1861. 



2 9. — Wings ol the same shape as in the other species. Head in fronl 

 and thorax ochreous-brown. Wings white: fore wings with the space 

 between the basal line and the insertion of (lie wing brown, mixed with deep 

 ochreous; a median very sinuate line just beyond but touching the discal dot, 

 and still beyond a broad, irregular, Large, brown patch, represented on 1 he costa 

 by three spots, and below the third median vein by two lines; the patch 

 extends to the indistinct submarginal line; apex (dear white. On the hind 

 wings, the discal dol is distinct, and there are traces of two brown lines in 

 the middle of the wing. Beneath, the discal dots on both wings are distinct : 

 on the Ion- wings are three indistinct scalloped lines, more or less diffuse and 

 blended; on the hind wings, traces of a single curved line just beyond the 

 discal dot. 



Length of body, 9, 0.30; of fore wing, 9, 0.43; expanse of wings, 

 0.90 inch. 



" Canada " (Guene'e) ; Brunswick, Me. (Packard, Mus. Peab. Acad. Sc.) ; 

 Dorchester, Mass. (Sanborn); Amherst, Mass., June 27 (Goodell). 



This description should be compared with that of M. Guene'e ; but I 

 have little doubt that the examples before me represent a variety of his 

 species, but with the lines on the fore wings confused and blended. My 

 description should be regarded as provisional. 



ACIDALIA Treitschke. Plate 4, tigs. 3, 3a, 3b, 3c; plate 6, fig 21. 



Cosmorhoe Hiibn. (iu part), Vera., 326, 1818. • 



Eois Hiibn. (in part), Verz., 308, 1818. 

 Leptomeris Hiibn. (in part), Verz., 310, 1818. 

 Arrhostia Hiibn., Verz., 311, 1816. 

 Idaa Tivits. (in part), Schm. Eur., v (i), 446, 1825. 

 ti idalia Treits. (in part), v (ii), 438, 1825; vi (ii), 5, 1828. 

 Ptychopoda Stepb., Nomencl. Br. Ins., 4.">, 1829. 

 Dosithea Dnp., Lep. France, vii (iv), 106 1829; viii (v), 43, 1830. 

 dcidalia Dnp. (in part), Lep. France, vii (iv ), 108, 1829; viii (v), 70, 1830. 



Curtis, Brit. Ent., 384, 1831. 



Uoistl., Gen. ln.l., 221, 1840. 



H.-Sch. (in part), Scbm. Eur., iii, 12, 1-17. 



si, ph.. Cat. Brit. Lep., 221, 1850. 



Lederer, Verb. Bot. Zool. Ges. Wien, 191, 1853. 



Gnen., Phal., i. 444, 1857. 



Walk., Lisl Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxii, 680, 1*iU. 



Head \er\ short : front narrow, and sunken between the large globose 



