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marked outcurve in the submedian interspace. Beyond this line is a 

 broad gray area extending to the median shade, and this is the palest 

 part of the wing, including the small, punctiform, brown orbicular. 

 The median shade consists of a pair or three somewhat wavy brown 

 lines, more or less obscured by the deeper brown shading that extends 

 to the t. p. line. Reniform brown or black, lunate, not defined, fol- 

 lowed by a more reddish shade. T. p. line black or brown, sometimes 

 complete, more often partially lost below the middle, with a deep 

 inward angulation opposite cell, forming an obvious ^ and a mod- 

 erate incurve below the cell. S. t. line black below the middle, tend- 

 ing to become lost above that point. When complete, it starts from 

 the costa within the apex, makes a moderate incurve and forms an 

 acute outward tooth on vein 4; there is a smaller tooth on vein 3, and 

 then there is the usual incurve to the inner margin just within the 

 anal angle. There is a tendency to darken the s. t. space which is 

 best marked in the costal region. Beyond the s. t. line there is a 

 broad dark band extending from inner margin to the angle of the 

 line, interrupted in the male by a whitish blotch; otherwise the ter- 

 minal space is gray powdered, more or less strigillate. There is no 

 obvious terminal line. Secondaries with three more or less obvious 

 brown lines across the disk, followed by a brown band between black 

 or brown defining lines. This band becomes broader and is less 

 marked toward the costa and the inner line is much less distinct. 

 Beyond the outer line is an edging of pale scales or even a complete 

 whitish line and the terminal area toward anal angle tends to become 

 gray powdered. Beneath, pale gray-brown, powdery, with a discal 

 lunule and extra-median line on both wings, occasionally an obscure 

 discal line and sometimes a short line above anal angle. 



Expands, 1.48-1.00 inches=37^10 mm. 



Habitat. — Pennsylvania ; Maryland ; Washington. District of 

 Columbia, " Pupa found, Iss. March 2, 82." 



Three males and two females, labeled as above and all very much 

 alike. The species resembles a miniature obliqua with all the macu- 

 lation intensified and made more contrasting. This expresses the 

 chief superficial differences, added to the absence of the violet gray 

 wash and the presence of the white blotch near anal angle of pri- 

 maries in the male. It is the intermediate step to benesignata, being 

 loss powdery and much less contrasting in maculation than that 

 species. 



The spinulation of the middle tibia is fairly well marked in both 

 sexes, less visible in the heavier vestiture of the male. In the latter 

 the middle femora are obviously tufted and the mass of specialized 

 scales is quite large. 



The male genitalia are moderately asymmetrical and very like 

 those of the related species, the right clasper or harpe being much 



