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Mich. (Cook) ; Albany, N. Y.. .\hi\ ijO (Meske) ; Philadelphia, Pa. (Amer. 

 Knt. Soc). 



This species, common northward, may be known by the unusually deep 

 dull-greenish tint ; the common line, and only one present, is very faintly 

 marked, sometimes entirel} wanting. The fringe varies in being concolorous 

 with the wing or tinged with reddish. There is sometimes a russel tint to 

 the wings. It is smaller than .A. subcroceata, with a blunter apex to the fore 

 wings and les> angular hind win^s. 



Nemoeia i'istaciata Guenee. Plate 1". tiu. 80. 



Nemoriat pistaclaria Guen., Pbal., i, 348, 1857. 



Walk.. Lis! Lep. I let. Br. Mils., xxii, 534, 1861. 



4 9. — This is a larger species than gratata, with more produced acute 

 fore wings and much more angular hind wings, as well as more distinct 

 markings. Fronl edge of prothorax and palpi and legs deep ochreous. 

 Front of head reddish. Wings deep sea-green, of the same tint as in 

 V. gratata. Costa of fore wings tinged with reddish on the extreme edge 

 (no inner line to lie seen in my specimens). An outer line common to both 

 wings, at ahout the- same relative distance from the outer edge as in gratata; 

 the line on the fore wings is a little sinuous, when a little effaced represented 

 by venular dots: on the hind wings, the line is bent at nearly right angles 

 following the outline of the outer edge. The fringe on, both wings is rather 

 long and unusually reddish (but in one case pale-green). Beneath, both 

 wings are uniformly pale pea-green, with the costa of the fore wings distinctly 

 yellowish : the fringe is reddish, as above. Both wings with very taint discal 

 dark-green discolorations. 



Length of body. 9, 0.34; of fore wings, 9. 0.46; expanse of wings, 0.90 

 inch. 



Salem, Mass., dune x (Cassino); Amherst. Mass., June 1 (Peabodj I; 

 Brooklyn, N. V. (Graef) ; Hastings on Hudson, N. Y. (Grote) ; Albany, N. 

 Y.. dune 9 ( Meske) ; West Farms, N. Y. (Angus). 



This pretty species is larger, with more angular wings, than in \. gra- 

 tata, and the costa of the fore wings is reddish above and yellow beneath, 

 though the general tint of the wings is the same as in the two species. It 

 agrees well with GueneVs description, except that there is in my examples 

 no "external second line on the fore wings'', as he states. His description 

 is baser! on r single "9 en mo ft rain etat". 



