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line is broadly angulated on the middle of the wing. Fringe concolorous with 

 the lines. Hind wings concolorous with the fore wings, paler toward the 

 base. Discal <l<>ts rather large, distinct Beneath, the wing is ochreous, 

 thickly sprinkled with dull violet or tawnj strigae; a common, diffuse, broad 

 line, especially on the hind wings. Antennae gray; branches reddish. 



Length of body, 58; of fore wing, 0.64 inch. 



The brighl ferruginous hues, and leaden, subviolaceous, diffuse lines, 

 the inner of which is slightly curved, and the outer nearly rectangular at the 

 middle of the winy, the want of the usual apical streak, and the sinuate line 

 on the hind wings, with its small size, slender body, and entire wings, readily 

 separate it from any other species, though its nearest ally is E. hypochraria. 

 Of my three males, no two are alike. One male, from West Virginia (Lint- 

 ner), is dull tawny-brown, densely speckled with two broad plumbeous shades 

 on the fore wings and one on the hind wings; beneath, the shades are very 

 distinct, and the wings are dull ochreous; veins dull ochreous; bead and 

 front of thorax dull ochreous. 



Endropia hypochraria Herrich-Schaeffer Plate 12, fig. 12. 



Epioni i Endropia) hypochraria H.-Soh., Aussereur. Schm., (>!!. figs. 207, 'ins, 1850-58. 



Endropia hypochraria'. !!, Gneu., Phal., i, 125, lsr>7. 



Endropia refractaria (xtten.!!!, Phal., i, 125, L857. 



Endropia lateriliaria Gueu., Phal., i. l"i">. 1857. 



Endropia hypochraria Walk. ! ! !. List Lep. Het. Br. Mas., xx, 150, 1800. 



Endropia refractaria Walk.!!!. List Lep. Het. Br. Mas., xx, 151, 1860. 



Endropia mestusala Walk.!!!, List Lep. Het. Br. Mas., xx. 154, I860. 



20 cf and 14 9. — Palpi very long and slender at tin? tip. Wings very 

 short and broad, not toothed, except having a sinus between the apex and 

 the middle angle of the hind wings, being much more entire than in any 

 of the preceding species. The female is much more falcate and angulated 

 than the male. Body and wings pale brown or ashen, mottled with dark; 

 wings with ferruginous mottlings, and often a distinct violet hue along the 

 lines and on the fringe; the tip of the abdomen projects but a little beyond 

 the hind wings. Fore wings with a basal line much curved in front of the 

 median vein ; behind it sinuate, shaded beyond with rusty-brown, with some- 

 times a fainl olivaceous tinge, and with a violet hue along the inside; outer 

 line nearly straighl in it > general course, angulated on the first median vein, 

 the angle very large and going straight from the apex to the costa, shaded 

 broadly within with brown, externally with a faint violet 4inge; this line is 



