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of the Fore-wings distinctly flexuous, the l>;isal band being scarcely visible. 

 The hind wings with the basal and second band wider apart, and with a 

 commencement of a band between the second and third hand. There are 

 three minute black dots at the apex of the fore wings. It is very closely 



allied but distinct." 



Acikai.ia CACUMINATA Morrison. Plate 10, fig. 50. 

 Acidalia cacuminaiin Morr., 1'ioc. Bost. Soo. Nat. Hist., wi. 194, 1874. 



o ?. — Fore wings much elongated, with the costa rather straight, 

 slightly convex toward the apex, which is subrectangular ; outer edge slightly 

 bent, oblique. Hind wings remarkably square, the outer edge long, with a 

 very prominent angle, the inner angle sharply rectangular, and the inner edge 

 is short, much shorter comparatively than in A. enucleata, for example. 

 Palpi black, rather long and slender, passing slightly beyond the front; third 

 joint small, but slender and pointed. Head black in front; vertex concol- 

 orous with the rest of the body and wings, which are whitish ochreous, 

 being of the same tint as in A. enucleata. Fore wings with the basal line 

 obsolete, represented by a few dark venular scales; discal dot round, black, 

 distinct; a dull-reddish, extradiscal, very oblique, sinuous line, not running 

 very near the discal dot; halfway between the discal dot and the outer line 

 is a series of large black spots, becoming large and confluent on the inner 

 edge of the wing; just beyond, a similar line, fading out toward the costa, 

 and more or less confluent with the other line toward the inner angle; a 

 marginal row of large and conspicuous black dots. Hind wings with four 

 lines, the innermost reddish, running directly from the inner edge to the 

 distinct discal dot ; beyond is a parallel, straight, reddish line, with black 

 dots; the third line is like the second, but sinuous, and with heavier black 

 dots, but with no reddish tinge; a curved, submarginal, black, narrow line; 

 marginal black spots as on the fore wings; beneath, paler than above; discal 

 dots large, alike on both wings ; a single, diffuse, irregular, black, sinuous line, 

 about half-way between the discal dot and outer edge, and common to both 

 wings; submarginal. dots distinct; a few dusky scales scattered over the 

 wings: sometimes a submarginal shade, with a large dark cloud near the 

 inner angle. Abdomen with a row of black dots. 



Length of body, 9, 0.30; of fore wings, 9, 0.40; expanse of wings, 

 0.85 inch. 



