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separating slightly on the costa; beyond paler, and a submarginal paler band; 

 discal dot clear whitish. Beneath, whitish, with smoky strigse ; base and outer 

 edge bright ochreous ; the smoky diffuse bands distinct, the extradiscal one 

 inclosing the bright, very distinct, white, lunate, discal dot, which is shaded 

 externally with fuscous-ochreous, making a patch included between the two 

 lines; a broad whitish baud; the s reaches the middle point of the wing and 

 connects with the broad whitish band ; secondaries white on the costa and 

 the inner margin, at the base between, bright ochreous, concolorous with the 

 outer border; a broad, ferruginous, mesial band inclosing the lunate, silvery, 

 discal spot; the line is bordered with whitish, and there is a second parallel 

 interrupted line. 



Length of body, 0.62 ; of fore wing, 0.86 ; expanse of wings, 1.85 inches. 



Jamaica Plains, Mass. (W. Faxon); Mass. State Coll. (Sanborn); Penn- 

 sylvania (Clemens); Brooklyn, N. Y. (Graef). 



EUGONIA Hiibner. Plate 6, fig. 7. 



Eugonia Hiibu. (in part), Verz.. 291, 1818. 

 Ennomos Tieits., Scbin. Eur., vi (i), 3, 1827. 



Dup., Lep. France, vii (iv), 136, 1829. 

 (ieometra Stepb. (in part), Nomeucl. Br. Ins., 43, 1829. 

 " Odoptera Sodoff., Bull. Soc. Imp. Sc. Moscow, 16, 1837." 

 Ennomos Boisd. (iu part), Gen. Iud., 182, 1840. 



Dup., Cat., 218, 1844. 

 Eugonia H.-Sch., Schni. Eur., iii, 40, 1847. 

 Odoptera Steph. (in part), Cat. Br. Lep., 165, 1850. 

 Eugonia Lederer, Verb. Bot. Zool. Ges. Wien, 175, 1853. 

 Ennomos Guen., Phal., i, 173, 1857. 



Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xx, 204, 1860. 



Body very stout and hairy or moderately stout. Head rather sunken in 

 the body, squarish in front, with long hairs projecting more than usual in a 

 tuft-like projection. Palpi stout and bushy, long, porrect, not ascending, 

 extending well in front of the head ; the third joint rather large, but 

 partially concealed by the hairs of the second joint, or (subsignaria) long, 

 slender, and quite free from the second joint, and as long as the latter joint 

 is wide. Male antennas very heavily pectinated to the tip, the branches stiff 

 and regular; those of the female with pectinations as long as the antennas 

 are thick. Fore wings with the costa straight; the apex much rounded, very 

 falcate; the outer edge deeply excavated and seriate below the apex; the 

 angle on the first median venule is unusually large and rounded, below which 

 the margin is again excavated and scalloped. Hind wings scalloped and 



