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and ilic outer border of both wings beyond 1 lit • common outer line being 

 Fawn-brown. Head like the 1 >< m 1 \ ; orbits in front deep ochreous. Antennae 

 broadly pectinated, as usual. Fore wings with a basal, curved, diffuse, fawn- 

 brown band, the wings being often brown at base; an extradiscal one 

 common to both wings; discal dots not very distinct: wings obscurely 

 spotted with fawn-brown; older line fawn brown; the wing beyond is filled 

 up with the same color, with an oblique, apical, yellowish patch, shaded 

 below with blackish, and with scattered black specks on the brown portion. 

 Hind wings like the anterior pair, except that there is no basal line; apex 

 very acute in the female. Outer edge of the lore wings of the male angulated 

 in the middle, but not scalloped, as it is ill the female. Hind wings deeply 

 serrated in the male in front of the middle of the wing, there being three 

 acute points, while in the female the entire edge is scalloped, there being 

 six acute points. Beneath, the markings re-appear, the wings arc more 

 heavily speckled, discal dots larger, black, more distinct; both common lines 

 present : outer border brown, but paler than above, and with the apical 

 oblique patch more distinct. Legs yellow, spotted with lilac-brown. 



Length of body, i, 0.70-0.80, 9, 0.65-0.70 ; of fore wing, t, 0.75-0.85, 

 9, 90-1.00; expanse of wings, 1.80-2.00 inches. 



It varies in the base of the fore wing being brown, or this brown portion 

 is represented simply by a diffuse curved line, and also in the degree of 

 irroration, and of the scalloping of the fore wings. 



Montreal, Canada (Lyman); Boston, Mass. (Soc. Nat. Hist., Sanborn, 

 Stratton, and Shurtleff, the latter collecting it "July 10th") ; Albany, N. Y. 

 (Lintner and Meske) ; Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y. (Grote) ; New Jersey 

 (Sachs); Philadelphia, Pa (Grote and E tit. Soc); Detroit, Mich. (Mas. 

 Comp. Zool.) ; Glencoe, Nebr. (Dodge). 



Desiderata. 



Endropia tiviaria Walk.. List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xx, 250, 1860. — ■ 

 " Male. Hull cinereous lawn-color, minutely black-speckled ; under side 

 paler and brighter. Palpi brown, porrect, broad, extending a little beyond 

 the head; third joint conical, minute. Antennae broadly pectinated, except 

 at the lips. Legs brown: tarsi pale testaceous. Wings with two dark 

 geneous-brown linesand with the fringe of thesame hue; a black discal point. 

 Pore wings subfalcate ; interior line bent and undulating; a whitish oblique 



