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curved, parallel and equidistant, and slightly enlarged on the costa, below 

 which they arc beul a little. The middle line is sometimes nearer the inner 

 than the outer. A submarginal, broken, whitish line, shaded with dark gray, 

 sometimes obsolete. Hind wings with two blackish lines, the outer sinuous 

 toward the inner edge. The submarginal line is as on the lore wings. 

 Beneath, a little paler than above; the discal dots are large and conspicuous on 

 both wings, not being present above, while the inner line is represented by a 

 costal spot. The extradiscal line is distinct and common to both wings. The 

 submarginal line is represented by a short line, which extends from the costa 

 to near the middle of the wing. The abdomen has a median row of white 

 spots. 



Length of body, 3, 0.4;"), 9, 0.40; fore wing, <t , 0.50, 9, 0.50; expanse 

 of wings, 1.00 inch. 



Natick, Mass., July 17 (Stratton); Massachusetts (Morrison). 



This species is rather obscurely marked, but may be distinguished by 

 the simple male antenna?, the dull gray wings mottled obscurely with white 

 scales, and by the three, heavy, dark, parallel, slightly-curved lines on the fore 

 wings, the middle one absorbing the discal dot. 



Tephrosia cribrataria Guenee. Plate 11, tig. 13. 



Tcphroma cribrataria Guen.!, Phal., i, 260, ltvT. 



Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., 402, 1860. 



3 <?. — Antenna' strongly pectinated, much more so than in T. canadaria; 

 the extreme tip simple. Wings much as in T. canadaria, but the binder pair 

 less notched in the middle of the outer edge. Body and wings whitish-gray, 

 the latter thickly speckled with pale brown. Fore wings with three conspic- 

 uous, costal, dark spots, the distance between the inner two half as great 

 as between the second and third ; from the inner two spots, two faint 

 sinuous shades cross the wing. A slender, faint, pale, discal dot. Outer line 

 consisting of a sinuous row of venular, conspicuous, black dots; the line 

 straight from the costa to the first median vein, thence curving inward. 

 Beyond, a broad, faint, brownish shade. A marginal row of black dots. Hind 

 wings with two large black dots near the base, one on the inner edge, the 

 other near the middle of the wing. Outer line of dots sinuous. Wing 

 beyond as in anterior pair. Fringe whitish. Beneath, pale whitish, with no 

 markings, except the faint discal dots and a marginal row of dots on both 



