1865.] 18 



I 

 Aiuoug the specimens received through the kindness of Mr. Edwards, i ] 



are a % marked Bootes and a 9 marked Taj/r/ete. so ticketed by Mb.schler. 



and both understood to be from iiubrador. In agreement with Mbsch- 



ler I believe 0. Bootes and C. Taj/;jrtr to be the same species. j 



I 

 ■>. Chionobas Oeno. j 



f1hio7iobas Oeno Boisduval, Icones hist, des Lepidopt. I. 195, PI. .39, figs. 4 — ti. 

 " Hist. gen. et Icones Lepidopt. de I'Am. Sept. 220. 



Morris, Synop. Lepidopt. N. Am. 72. I 



Moschler, Wiener, Entom. Monatschr. IV. 342; VII. 211. 

 Chionobas Al.10 Boisduval, Hist. gen. et Icones Lepidopt. de I'Am. Sept. 22L'. I 



Morris, Synop. Lepidopt. N. Am. 71. < 



Moschler. Wiener, Ent. Monatschr. VH. 205. 

 Chionobas Crambis Doubleday, Westwood and Hewitson, Genera Diurnal Lep- , 



idopt. .38;?. 



(Boisduval in his Icoues hist, des Lepidopt. docs not describe his ('. . 



Also as from America except the White Mountain specimens which be- , 



long to another species, V. semvhu. By a strange confusion of etiquettes 1 



on specimens received originally from Dr. Harris, he speaks of it as ■ 



called *S'(^/, erltiosa by Harris. See my paper in Bost Jourii. Nat. ! 

 lli.-^t. \il. 618.) 



Kxpanse of wings % 1.7S — :i.((4in.; 9 1.96 — 2.14 in. 



Head, thorax and abdomen black, with blackish-brown hairs ; stalk 

 of antennae above blackish-brown annulated with white, below brownish- 

 yellt>w delicately annulated with brownish; club above yellowish-brown. ' 



below brownish-yellow, tip more dusky. Palpi above whitish or grayish- j 



haired, tip blackish-haired; beneath blackish-haired, more or less, some- j 



times very much, mixed with yellowish-brown hairs. Legs brownish, 

 tibije lighter than femora. ' 



Wings above varying from dark brown to yellowish-brown, primaries j 



sometimes with small obsolete eye-like spots, secondaries with the de- 

 .sign of the under side sometimes showinji- throuiih; beneath, primaries 

 like upper surface, hoary-tipped ; secondaries marked with blackish- I 



brown, ochraceous-brown and grayish-white, with a darker middle band | 



bounded by grayish bands sometimes obscured by uniform marbling ; 

 the outer border of the wings delicately edged with black; fringe pure ' 



white, grayish-white or grayish-yellow, interrupted at nervule-tips with 

 blackish. 



Above. Primaiiis dark brown, more or less tingeil with reddish, 

 t'ither uniformly or a little more considerably next the outer border. I 



often deepening into very indistinct spots in the interspaces; sometimes 

 uniform dark brown, considerably tinged with yellowish ; sometimes ^^.^a.. 

 slate-brown, the border paler or tinged with yellowish; the costal edii*'^\3\ U/ 



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