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nee well pectinated. Body and wings ashen-ferruginous (sometimes deep 

 rust-brown). Wings speckled with black ; an inner curved dark line with 

 two lobes on the median space, edged externally with ferruginous. Discal 

 dot distinct; outer line oblique, scarcely angulated, sometimes waved, den- 

 tate (especially in the middle of the wing), shaded broadly within and quite 

 regularly witli rust-red. In one female, the space between the two lines 

 is deeper brown than elsewhere. On the outer side, on the second median 

 cell, is a round black spot. An apical, rather long, black line, terminating 

 directly on the apex; above a little paler ashen. Outer edge of the wing 

 below clear ; fringe very slightly darker. Hind wings colored much as the. 

 fore wings, paler toward the base, darker beyond the line, which is more 

 distinct on the hind edge Beneath, more uniformly ferruginous, especially 

 on the outer third of the wing. The common line reappears, broad, indis- 

 tinct, subviolaceous. Body and legs more ferruginous beneath than above. 

 In rubbed specimens, the lines are interrupted. 



Length of body, <? , 0.55-0.62; of fore wing, <?, 0.65-0.76; expanse of 

 wings, 1.50-1.60 inches. 



Montreal, Canada (Caulfield) ; Brunswick, Me., June, common (Packard); 

 Boston and vicinity (Morse, Sanborn, Smith, Shurtleff, May 28) ; Albany. N. 

 Y., June 4 (Lintner and Meske); Phila. Ent. Soc; Racine, Wis. (Hoy, Riley 

 Coll.) ; West Virginia (Lintner). 



This form differs from E. hypochraria in its simple hind wings which have 

 but a single slight excavation below the apex, and in the outer line being oblique, 

 sinuate, and not rectangular. From E. apiciaria it differs in the apex being- 

 rectangular ; the lines are waved, edged within with ferruginous. The single 

 dark spot on the middle, just outside the outer line, will separate it also. 

 Beneath, it is darker and more reddish than in any of the other species. 



Like the other species mentioned above, this species belongs to the sec- 

 ond and lowest section of the genus, having the apex rectangular. When 

 faded, the reddish scales disappear as in hypochraria, and it has a pale- 

 ash hue. In some individuals, there are two diffuse, indistinct, broad, plumbe- 

 ous lines on the fore wings. Head and prothorax and costa of wings at base 

 rufous ; wings usually much brighter rufous than usual, and without any 

 apical oblique streaks; an unusually broad, diffuse, very indistinct, basal line, 

 but slightly curved, with leaden-colored scales; between the basal and the 

 outer line, the wing is clear rufous; no discal dots; the outer, broad, diffuse 



