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distinctly white-marked. Primaries smoky red-brown, more or less over- 

 laid by mossy yellow-green scales which normally fill the basal, terminal 

 and part of the s. t. space, the centre of the ordinary spots and patches 

 in the median space. Basal line evident, geminate, defining lines not 

 well marked, included space pale and sometimes white-marked. T. a. 

 line geminate, upright a little irregular, defining lines incomplete and not 

 well marked, included space white, forming a somewhat prominent patch 

 on the costa and extending inward a little on the inner margin. T. p. 

 line geminate, not well defined, broken, out-curved over the reniform, 

 then almost upright, included space more or less marked with white scales, 

 especially in the costal region. S. t. line very irregular, marked by the 

 contrast between the mossy powdering of the terminal and darker shading 

 of the s. t. spaces. A series of blackish terminal lunules, followed by a 

 series of pale or yellowish blotches at the base of the fringes and opposite 

 the termination of the veins. A median shade line is traceable below the 

 reniform. Orbicular small, round, black ringed, green centred. Reni- 

 form upright, moderate in size, incompletely outlined, a little constricted 

 centrally. Claviform extending half way across the median space, out- 

 lined by black scales, yellow-green filled, and this greenish shade is usually 

 continued beyond the spot across the median space. Secondaries deep 

 smoky-brown, hardly paler at the base, fringes with a pale line at the base. 

 Beneath gray, powdery, outer margins palerj with a common extra-median 

 line and a black discal spot on all wings. Primaries with a whitish cloud 

 on the costa at the inception of the extra-median line. 



Expands i. 05-1. 12 inches = 27-29 mm. 



Habitat: CoUmibus, Ohio; VI., 20; VII., 9, at sugar (N. W. Tallant); 

 Texas, V., 16 (Belfrage) ; New Jersey. 



Four specimens, 2 males and 2 females, are at hand, and I have seen 

 others. The species is allied to miseioides in appearance, but is smaller, 

 with much narrower, stumpy wings. It is, perhaps, nearer to marina, 

 with which I tried hard to identify it, but is not so bright as that species, 

 the fringes are even, and the form of the primaries is different. The 

 variation consists partly in the amount and intensity of the mossy green, 

 which fades to yellow in old examples, and partly in the prominence of the 

 white filling of the ordinary lines. 



