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wing to its evidently having recently left the chrysalis, its freshness show- 

 ing off the incomparable beauty of the species. 



Acidalia persimilata Grote. J °_ . This species, which 1 described 

 originally from a specimen taken in Buffalo, X. Y., I have found in Ala 

 bama. The male antense are finely pectinate. The wings above are of a 

 dirty greenish grey, mottled in appearance. The outer line alone is 

 tolerably distinct ; this is whitish, waved, preceded by a dark linear shade 

 and connecting a series of minute nervular dots. There is a row of 

 whitish interspaceal sub-luniform dots on the terminal space tolerably evi- 

 dent. Fringes greyish. In shape, the primaries are triangulate, with 

 determinate apices ; secondaries reduced. There is a very tine dark 

 terminal line on both wings which, as usual, agree in appearance. This 

 is a frail species, readily losing its greenish tint. Exp., T9-20 m. m. In 

 Mils. Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, Mass. 



Acidalia purpurissata Grote. °_ . Size, small or moderate: 



external margin of wings rounded, apices of primaries indeterminate. 

 Wine color, with a purple shade. Primaries crossed by three irregular, 

 transverse yellowish lines, darkly defined inwardly ; a faint series of sub- 

 terminal interspaceal maculations is visible superiorly. The outer of the 

 three lines is slightly projected over the median nervules, curving inwardly 

 opposite the disc. The costal region is shaded with pale yellow, and this 

 color is continued over the collar and thorax in front. A very fine 

 terminal black line edges both wings, interrupted by pale dots on the 

 nervules. Fringes, rosy wine color, brighter than the wings. Secondaries 

 crossed by two lines corresponding with the outer two of the primaries. 

 Discal streaks on both wings analogous to the transverse lines. Beneath, 

 paler, washed with rosy wine color, the secondaries almost wholly whitish 

 with a roseate terminal shade. Abdomen above and thorax behind con- 

 colorous with wings, the former with yellowish dorsal marks. Antennae 

 simple. Hind legs with a single reduced pair of spurs. Body, pale 

 beneath. Exp., 17-19, m. m. Types in Mus. Peabody Academy of 

 Science, Salem, Mass. Resembles the description of Acidalia pannaria 

 Guenee, but differs in detail. Two specimens taken in the latter part ol 

 July. 



Botys PLUMBICOSTALIS Grote. $. Bright yellow. Costal region of 

 primaries broadly dark plumbeous from base to tip. Terminal space out- 

 wardly filled with the same shade tapering to internal angle. This 



