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black above ; in the female, simple, dark granite-gra} . almosl blackish. Front 

 of Hie head blackish ; a while cross-line just below the antennae ; vertex with 

 white scales. Palpi blackish on the sides, white on the under side of the 

 basal joint, and al the tip of the second, ami on the whole of the third. Pure 

 wings thickly peppered with black scale's, so thai the three lines are quite 

 indistinguishable; inner line angulated broadly, just below the costa broad, 

 diffuse, and ending in a clear black costal spot, iis do the three outer lines. 

 Middle line subparallel, the angle opposite the discal spot, which consists of 

 an obscure ring (represented in rubbed specimens by a large discal oval dot). 

 (Inter line a little more than half-way from the inner line to the outer edge 

 ofthewing; if is straighter than usual, curved quite regularly opposite the 

 discal ring, scalloped slightly on the lower half, the scallops acutely pointed 

 on the costal half (in worn specimens the line is represented by a series oi 

 black venular points). A submarginal line of acute scallops edged externally 

 with white (the white line broader in. worn specimens). From each point 

 of these scallops, a broad, black, transverse, short stripe connects with the 

 marginal row of narrow lunules. Fringe on both wings concolorous with the 

 wing, paler externally. Hind wings as the anterior pair; basal line unusually 

 broad, diffuse, varying in distance from the discal ring. Extradiscal line 

 deeply scalloped; outer or third line margined with white; a row of faint 

 <lashes proceeding out ward from the points of the scallops and connecting 

 with the narrow marginal black lunules. Wings beneath pale dull gray, with 

 fine, transverse, short streaks. Four very large, black, rounded, oval, discal 

 spots. The third or outer line reproduced, being a row of black dots on the 

 fore wing, situated half-way between the discal dot and the outer edge oi 

 the wing; on the hind wings nearer the discal dot : a broad, conspicuous, 

 black, marginal shade on both wings; on the anterior pair the band widens 

 toward the costa. Abdomen with no black line at base, with two rows of 

 large, black, dorsal spots, those on the second and third segments large and 

 conspicuous. Legs pale-gray; two anterior pairs of tarsi dull, with narrow, 

 paler rings. Abdomen beneath concolorous with the under side of the 

 wings. 



Length of body, 6 0.60, 9, 0.65; of tore wing, J, 0.65-0.70, 9, 

 0.73; expanse of wings, 1.40-1.50 inches. 



New Brunswick, opposite Calais, Me., August 19 (Shurtleff) ; Bruns- 

 wick, Me. (Packard); Boston, Mass. (Sanborn, Bost. Sue. Nat. Hist., C. A. 



