467 



from the apex equal to half the width of the wing; a diffuse, lunate, dusky 



spot near I he inner angle. Hind wings yellowish, as usual, especially 

 toward the outer edge; a hair-line crosses the outer third of the wing, with 

 a parallel, broad, diffuse hand on the inner angle, of (lie wing. Beneath, 

 liright yellow -ochreous; fringe violet; two violet hands and a discal spot on the 

 fore wing; wings more speckled than above. Abdomen beneath violaceous, 

 and so are the legs externally. Length of body, 0.35; of fore wing, 

 0.50 inch. 



Albany, N. Y. ((.). Meske). 



This species is liable to be, confounded with fervidaria, but differs in 

 the straight, firm, outer line, while the inner line is narrow and distinct. 

 The shape of the wings is almost exactly as in fervidaria. 



Plagodls fervidaria Herrich-Schaeffer. Plate 11, fig. 43. 



Plagodes fervidaria H.-Sch., Ausserenr. Scum., (>:'>. fig. 203, 1850-58, 

 Eurymene emargataria Gueu., Phal., i. 145, 1857. 



Walk., List, Lep. Het. Br. Mils., xx, I??, 1860, 

 Eurymene excurvaria Morrison, Hull. Buff. Soc. Sc, 1873. 



1 <S and 2 9. — Like ■ phlogosaria, but the notch in the outer edge, of the 

 fore wings is deeper than in that species; apex of the wing rectangular, the 

 outer edge slightly convex below ; hind wings with the outer edge a little 

 more sinuous than in phlogosaria. Fore wings ochreous-ash, of nearly the 

 same hue as in ph/ogosar/a, but usually more strigated ; inner line represented 

 by a few scattered black scales in some of my specimens, wanting in the one 

 figured. Discal dot small or very large and touching the extradiscal band, 

 which is more or less sinuous, making quite an angle below the median vein ; 

 beyond the band and below the median vein, the wing is tinged with violet. 

 Fringe coucolorous with the wing, but dark in the hollow. Hind wings 

 tinged with yellow. The extradiscal line indistinct on the costal half of the 

 wing, with a short, external, parallel, dark line half-way between it and the 

 outer edge (sometimes wanting) ; fringe dark below the median angle. 

 Beneath pale yellow-ochreous, strigated with reddish-ochreous lines and dots ; 

 the outer line on the fore wings represented by a diffuse violaceous band, 

 while the. outer third of the hind wings is violet-purple. Head, thorax, 

 and abdomen beneath, and basal half of costa above, tinged with violet. 



Length of body, <? , 0.45, 9, 0.48; of fore wings, i, 0.55, 9, 0.G0 ; 

 expanse of wings, 1.15-1.35 inches. 



