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lines more or less obvious: in some examples only the cliscal spots 

 are distinct. 



Expands: 1.40-1.60 inches=35-40 mm. 



Habitat. — New Hampshire, probably Webster; Center, New York, 

 in May; Brooklyn, New York: Amherst. Massachusetts. 



Types. — Rutgers College Collection; also cotype Doctor Otto- 

 lengui. 



Three males and two females, all very much alike. The chief 

 superficial difference between the sexes is the conspicuous white 

 blotch at the anal angle of the primaries; but with more material 

 this may not prove constant. 



As compared with curema, to which this is perhaps most nearly 

 allied, the most obvious difference is the more roughly powdered 

 vestiture and the absence of a red tinge in the ground. Next the 

 fact that both t. p. and s. t. lines are complete, and the space between 

 them is darker. All the transverse maculation is more conspicuous, 

 and the median shade lines are as a rule better defined. 



The spinulation of the median tibia is well defined but sparse, the 

 long spinules being easily made out in the vestiture. The femoral 

 tufting of the male is only moderate, and the mass of specialized 

 scales is not at all conspicuous. 



The genitalia of the male are very similar to those of squammularis 

 and differ more from those of curema, to which the species is nearer 

 on superficial characters. The right clasper is unusually long 1 , 

 slender, and down-curved. 



In the female also the resemblance is to squammularis rather than 

 cure m a, though there is a markable difference in the outline of the 

 lobes beneath. The location of the opening to the copulatory pouch 

 is about the same — at the upper inner angle of the right lobe; but it 

 is distinctly nearer to the middle of the segment as a whole. 



PHiEOCYMA SQUAMMULARIS (Drury). 



1770. Noctua squammularis Drury, Illustr., I, p. IS, pi. ix, fig. 3. 



1S57. Noctua squammularis (=coracias Guenee) Walker, ('. B. Mus.. Het., 



XIII, p. 1075. 

 1S65. Anthracia squammularis Rethune, Canadian Journal, X, p. 248. 

 1874. (? Noctua squammularis^coracias) Grote, Bull. Buff. Sue. Nat. Sci., 



II, p. 46. 

 1893. Pseudanthracia squammularis Smith. Bull. 14, t*. S. Nat. Mus., p. 



373. 



Pale leather brown, more or less washed with gray. Head usually 

 a little darker in front. Collar and thorax concolorous. Primaries 

 with all the maculation distinct, conspicuous, the transverse macula- 

 tion well marked, brown or black. Basal space a little darker, basal 

 line distinct, single, brown or black; t. a. line distinct, single, brown 

 or black, with an acute outward tooth on the subcosta and usually a 



