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straight, besides being the smallest species known. Il mighf be al first sight 

 separated from Endropia, bul the aberranl characters are too slight, though 

 il forms*a distinct section <it' the genus. 



Endropia apiciaria, sp. nov. Plate 12, fiu. 9 



2 £ and 2 9. — The wings of this species are more angular and the hind 

 wings more dentate than in E. duaria, lint less so than in E. hypochraria. On 

 the hind wings, the sinus is deep but simple, not having the small tooth pres- 

 ent in hypochraria. The general color is whitish-ash, much lighter than in 

 the allied species. Head and antennas reddish. Wings whitish-ash, with 

 reddish-brown scales on the costa near the head. Fore wings with two dark- 

 brown lines, the inner bent and curved as in hypochraria, while the outer line 

 is straight in the male, not sinuous, being still straighter than in pilosaria. 

 In the female, the line is flexuous on both wings. Accompanying and beyond 

 the line is a broken, broad, diffuse band, often obsolete, in one male entirely 

 so. An obsolete, dark, apical line (absent in one male). Distinct black 

 discal dots on both wings. Hind wings with a single dark line, fading out 

 toward the discal dot. Beneath, the common line is more conspicuous than 

 above, washed with orange, as is the under side of the wings generally, while 

 just beyond the line on the outer third of the wing is a leaden patch. The 

 discal dots are smaller than above. 



Length of body, <?, 0.65, 9. 0.65; of fore wing, J, 0.75, i, 0.68; 

 expanse of wings, 1.40 inches. 



Brunswick, Me., June and July, in company with hypochraria; Salem, 

 Mans., June 23 (Packard): Hyde Park, near Boston, Mass., June 15 (Morri- 

 son); Albany, N. V., June 7 (Meske). 



This species need not be confounded with any other, as the outer line 

 common to both wings is straight in the male and slightly sinuous in the 

 female, much less so than in E. duaria. It is also whitish-ash, and washed 

 with orange beneath more than in the other species. 



Endropia duaria Packard. Plate 12, fig. 10. 



NmncHa duaria Gueu.!!!, Phal., i, 135, 1-."'T. 



Xiinuiiii hamaria Gueu.!!!, Phal., i, 136, 1857. 



Endropia lateritiaria Walk.!!! (nol Guen.), List Lep. lid. Br. Mns., \\'. 151, I860. 



Endropia homuraria Grote and Rob., Trans. Amer. Ent. Sue., ii, 80, 1868. 



1 ' and 'A 9. — Head large; front ferruginous between the antennas, 

 the palpi very large and stout, porrect, extending fir beyond the head; anten- 



