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subfalcate; the apex subacute, the outer edge 1 >< i nii deeply liollow ••<! out 

 below; the angle of the outer edge nearer the apex than usual. Hind wings 

 with a well-pronounced angle in the outer edge; the apex well rounded. 

 Venation: two subcostal cells, the inner small, rhomboidal; the subcostal 

 venules very short ; the two discal venules together forming a deeply-curved 

 line. Hind tibiae not thickened; tarsi long and rather stout. Coloration: 

 yellow; an extradiscal straighl line on the fore wings, beyond which the 

 wing is discolored on the lower half with pale flesh-brown; and the entire 

 outer edge of the hind wings is similarly discolored. 



This genus may be known by the fore wings being suddenly excavated 

 below the subacute falcate apex, and by the angle in the outer edge being 

 situated much nearer the apex than usual, as well as by the distinct angle in 

 the hind wings. 



Sicya maculakia Harris. Plate 11, figs. 50, 51. 



sii-i/d maeularia Harris!! !. Agassiz, Lake Superior, 392, pi. vii, tig. 3. 

 Sicya truncataria Gnen. ! ! !, Phal., i, 104, 1857. 

 Sicya solfalaria Gtien., Phal., i, 104, 1857. 

 Sicya sublimaria Guen. ! ! !, Phal., i, 105, 1857. 



Sicya truncataria Wall;. ! ! !, List Lep. Het. Br. Mas., xx, 133, 18G0. 

 Sicya solfalaria Walk. ! ! !, List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xx, 134, 1860. 

 Sicya maeularia Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xx, 134, 1860. 

 Sicya crocearia Pack., Proo. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvi. 36, 1874. 



1 9, described from Harris's type, from Lake Superior. — Bright 

 sulphur-yellow. Body yellow. Front 1 of head tinged with orange. Fore 

 wings sulphur-yellow; costa fawn-colored at base: inner line composed 

 of irregular, fawn-colored spots, widest on the hind edge, bent at right angles 

 on the costa, straight in its course, and parallel to the outer line, which is 

 also interrupted between the large fawn-brown patch and the apex, there 

 being below the costa two brown dots, representing the line, and a pre-apical, 

 costal, brown spot ; below the first median venule, the line, brown and paler 

 within, is waved more than in the normal form, and the fawn-colored patch 

 between the line and the outer edge is rather shorter and broader than usual; 

 the fringe is white opposite the brown portion and yellow above, interrupted 

 b\ brown spots; a slight discal dot, and a few fawn-colored, faint flecks alonu 

 the costa and in the middle of the wing. Hind wings with a large discal dot; 

 the outer line terminates opposite the discal dot ; beyond it the wing is pale 

 fawn-brown, deepening at the internal angle, the patch not extending beyond 



