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Cloantlia evictaj Orote, Plate 2, fig. 18, primary wing. 



5 . — ^Color of the preceding but without the brown shading over m. ncrvules 

 or the paler subcostal shade. More uniformly gray, shaded with pale testaceous 

 brownish, with all the transverse markings more distinct. The geminate 

 transverse posterior line is well expressed by a subcontinuous inner dark line 

 and a succeeding pale shade. The veins are picked out by dark scales. A 

 basal whitish subcostal fleck and black submedian streak. Ordinary lines 

 marked on costal edge. T, a. line discernible, outwardly oblique, approximating 

 to t. p. line toward internal margin. Reniform testaceous with faint marginal 

 line, with an upward and inward extension which may be the fusion of the 

 orbicular but which gives the appearance of a large compound spot notched 

 superiorly. Terminal space testaceous brownish, interrupted by longitudinal 

 pale dashes on either side of vein 3. A terminal dark line forming inter- 

 spaceal cuneiform marks. Secondaries much as in ramosula; the veins are 

 marked with darker scales and the common line of the under-surface is here 

 reflected. Beneath whitish gray of a warm tint, powdered sparsely with dark 

 scales ; no borders but distinct discal dots and finely dentate continued subter- 

 minal line on both wings. Collar whitish gray, without middle line, but with 

 an upper marginal distinct black line which separates the darker discolorous 

 tegulae. 



Expanse, 32 m. m. Habitat, New York State. 



In both this and the succeeding species the head is larger, the eyes 

 more prominent, and the palpi longer than in C. ramosula. 



Cloantlia Tomeriiiaj Orote, Plate 2, fig. 17, primary wing. 



3 . — This is best described comparatively. There are no traces, or these are 

 but extremely illegible, of the transverse lines ; their absence gives the fore 

 wings a resemblance to those of C. ramosula. The reniform spot is shaped 

 as in C. evicta, but very distinct, owing to its being distinctly black margined. 

 The whitish sub-costal fleck of C. evicta is here more diffuse and extended and 

 touches the shoulder of the thorax. A heavy difTuse brown black shade 

 extends over all the inferior portion of the wing, outwardly running obliquely 

 upwardly to apex and covering terminal space. White linear shadings along 

 veins 3 and 4 on terminal space, and thus a tendency to have these pale 

 shadings accompany all the nervules is exposed, but in both the new species 

 these shadings Tu.n parallel with the veins. Collar pale without median line 

 but with an upper marginal line against the blackish tegulae. On the front, 

 before the antennal insertion, I notice a gathering of the scales into two 

 slight lateral black tufts, not apparent in C. evicta. Beneath much as in G. 

 evicta; the palpi outwardly are blackish. 



Eypanse, 3G m. in. Ifabilat, New York State. 



