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vertex, extending some distance on to the antenna"; front deep dull red. 

 On the wings is a common whitish line, situated nearer the middle of the 

 wings than in the succeeding species; the line is nearly straight on the fore 

 wings, much less oblique than in gratata, a little wavy; on the hind wings, 

 the line is less curved than in N. gratata (it is sometimes obsolete). Beneath, 

 both wings are uniformly deep orange-ochreous, with no markings. Fringe 

 above and below concolorous with the wings. 



Length of body, &, 0.84, 9, 0.36; of fore wings, S , 0.40, 9, 0.46; ex- 

 panse of wings, 0.82-0.95 inch. 



- Milford, N. H. (C. P. Whitney, Mus. Bost. Soc. Nat, Hist); West Rox- 

 bury, Mass. (Sanborn, Mus. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist.) ; Albany, N. Y. (Lintner) ; 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. (Graef). 



This beautiful little species is of the same shape as in the more common 

 dull-green N. gratata, but differs in the body and wings being usually of a 

 uniform deep ochreous-orange tint above and beneath. 



The specimen received from Mi - . Lintner agrees with Walker's descrip- 

 tion of N. incertata. Both wings are above yellowish-green, and the fringe 

 is slightly reddish, but the wings beneath are deep orange; it is thus, when 

 seen above, apparently a variety of gratata, but beneath is unmistakably 

 subcroceata. Specimens may still be found to connect the two species. All 

 three species are much alike, and the differences between them very slight, 



Nemoria gratata Walker, MS. . Plate 10, tig. 79. 



4 S and 4 9. — Dull deep green, with a single faint, whitish, wavy line 

 on the outer fourth of the wing, parallel with the outer edge of the wing. 

 (This line is sometimes wanting, and there are no other markings on the 

 wing in perfectly fresh specimens.) The fringe has a decided reddish tinge, 

 or is concolorous with the, wing. Beneath paler than above, with no mark- 

 ings. Both wings are of the same hue, and the fringe beneath is reddish. 

 Prothorax deep rusty-ochreous. Head whitish-ochreous on the vertex, 

 including the antenna.' ; front deep rust-brown. Palpi and legs ochreous. 



Length of body, 6, 0.30, 9, 0.32; of fore wings, <?, 0.35, 9, 0.35-0.40; 

 expanse of wings, 0.80-0.85 inch. 



Brunswick, Me., common in fields adjoining pine-woods. May 28 to 

 June 10 (Packard); London, Canada (Saunders): Salem, Mass., June 17 

 (Cassino) ; Amherst, Mass. (Goodell) ; Boston, Mass. (Sanborn) : Lansing, 



