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Island; Pennsylvania: Washington, District of Columbia, May 19, 

 24; North Carolina, Ealeigh, July 25; Florida, Seven Oaks in Sep- 

 tember ; Missouri. 



In the series before me there are 9 males and 12 females and they 

 are, after all, very much alike. There is a little difference in the 

 amount of contrast between the various spaces and a little difference 

 in the ground color; but over all is the gray wash that is characteris- 

 tic of the species and which no other has in the same way. 



In the male the middle femora have the sexual tufts distinct but 

 not really conspicuous, inclosing a large mass of specialized scales. 

 The spinulation of the median tibiae in both sexes is scanty and not 

 conspicuous. 



The genitalia in the male are markedly asymmetrical, the lateral 

 process or harpe of the right side as seen from above being markedly 

 shorter and more slender than that of the left, which also has an 

 accessory process which curves from the lower margin upward on 

 the inner side and shields the base of the uncus. 



In the female the anal segments tend to become ocherous and the 

 depressions on the upper surface are very well marked. The lobes 

 of the divided segment beneath are very dissimilar in form and the 

 entrance to the copulatory pouch is shifted to the outer upper angle 

 of the right plate. 



This appears to be the most abundant of the species of this series. 



PHJEOCYMA METATA, new species. 



Light fawn brown tending to gray, the primaries more or less 

 washed with gray. Head and thorax immaculate. Abdomen tending 

 to more yellowish or rusty. Primaries with the basal space usually 

 a little darker. Basal line traceable in some specimens, but never 

 black, distinct. T. a. line usually marked only by the difference in tint 

 between basal and median space, sometimes a little more defined by 

 an edging of dark scales; never a black line; in course outwardly den- 

 tate on subcosta and then with a slight and tolerably even outcurve 

 to the inner margin. Beyond this line there is a broad band-like area 

 to the middle of the median space that is usually lighter than the 

 rest of the wing and i- gray powdered, the punctiform blackish orbic- 

 ular visible in most cases. At the middle is a somewhat irregular 

 median line and beyond thai the space may be evenly deeper in tint 

 or there may be two other diffuse lines crossing it. The reniform is 

 moderate in size, lunate, dusky <>r in a few cases even blackish ; beyond 

 it a more reddish shading to the t. p. line. The t. p. line is usually 

 distinct enough from cost a to the middle of the wing, indented as 

 usual opposite the middle of reniform, and it is lost or very ob- 

 scurely marked toward the inner margin. The s. t. line is distinct, 

 black, or blackish between vein I ami the inner margin, forming an 

 even curve: but between costa and vein 4 it is altogether lost, marked 



