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the middle, with a dark broken patch on the inner angle, and a subapical 

 dark-brown shade lining the deep subapical excavation. Hind wings with two 

 broad extradiscal bands, the outer diffuse; the wings on each side washed 

 with violet. Beneath, bright ochreous-yellow ; a common brown line, beyond 

 which the wing is of the color of a dried leaf, especially on the hind wings, 

 the edges of which are yellow-ocher. In the female, the bands are narrower. 



Length of body, <f , 0.60 ; of fore wing. <?, 0.65 ; expanse of wings, 1.30 

 inches. 



Brunswick, Me. (Packard); Boston, Mass. (Sanborn and Harris Coll.); 

 New York (Grote and Angus); Maryland (Mas. Comp. Zool.); Missouri 

 (Riley). 



This common and very well-marked species is smaller than most of the 

 others of the genus, and may be readily recognized by the heavy broad band 

 common to both wings, the violet tinge of the secondaries, and the bright 

 deep ochreous under side. 



An individual (fig. 20, £) from Maryland, in the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, is of a peculiar dark umber-brown, with the lines and bands less 

 oblique, and of the same hue beneath ; but, as the antennae and shape of the 

 wings are the same, I am inclined to regard it as a much suffused melanotic 

 individual. 



Endropia bilinearia Packard. Plate 12, fig. 21. 



PHocycla bilinearia Pack., New aud Little Known Insects, 13, 1870. 



10 S and 10 9 . — Clear fawn-brown ; wings much darker and less spotted 

 than in the other species. Body and wings concolorous ; front of the head and 

 the palpi a little darker than the rest of the body. Costa of the fore wings paler 

 than the rest of the wing and spotted finely, especially on the edge, with 

 brown specks. Two brown hair-lines, the inner situated on the basal, and the 

 outer on the outer third of the wing; the inner line bent on the costa, where 

 it is a little incurved, then going straight to the inner edge of the wing. 

 Outer line a little curved outward in the median spaces. Half-way between this 

 line and the outer edge of the wing is a diffuse, interrupted, taint grayish band 

 with a few dark scales, often wanting, and connecting with an oblique apical 

 patch, also concolorous with the costa. Outer edge of the wing deeply notched; 

 the eight acute points (including the apex, which is very acute) tipped with 

 a i't-w black scales, the fringe being whitish between. A faint discal dot some- 

 times wanting. Hind wings with a faint, basal, diffuse band (^of'ten wanting, 



