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fascia, the space between it and t. a. line more or less gray powdered 

 in the female and usually a little paler in the male. There is an orbicu- 

 lar dot in some examples, while in others it is entirely absent. Reni- 

 form lunate, smoky, outwardly edged with pale scales and tending 

 to become outlined in pale; a reddish or gray shade to the t. p. line 

 which is narrow, linear, black or brown, and tends to become lost in 

 whole or in part. Opposite the cell it has the usual indentation 

 forming a W. with the outer angles more or less rounded. S. t. line 

 black, tending to become diffuse inwardly, sharply toothed on vein -i 

 and thence forming the usual inward curves toward costal and in- 

 ternal margins respectively. There is a more or less obvious dusky 

 shade beyond the lower half of fhis line in some specimens, which 

 obscures the otherwise paler terminal area, which is strigillate with 

 brown. There is a distinct brown crenulated terminal line in most 

 females and in some the fringes are narrowly cut with brown. In 

 the male there is an obvious white blotch above the anal angle, form- 

 ing a conspicuous feature of the wing. Secondaries more sordid 

 fuscous or yellowish-brown with obscure median shade lines, an 

 outer black line inwardly bordered by a brown shade, which forms 

 a more or less distinct band and may be inwardly margined by a 

 more or less distinct brown line; outwardly this black line is bordered 

 by pale scales, and there are gray powderings in the terminal area 

 tending to form strigillations. There is a brown terminal line, the 

 incisions tending to become marked by white scales. Beneath much 

 paler, yellowish brown, powdery; all wings with a more or less 

 obvious discal lunule; usually there is an extra-median transverse 

 darker line, and sometimes a median line as well. 



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



Habitat. — Maine; New York; Pennsylvania; New Hampshire 

 (Webster and Manchester). 



I have 5 males and G females under examination, none of them 

 dated and most of them with the State label only. No two examples 

 are alike. All the males have the conspicuous white spot above the 

 anal angle and none of the females have any trace of it; but as for 

 the rest, the terminal space varies equally in both sexes in the amount 

 of gray or distinctness of strigillation. The conspicuous terminal 

 line of most females is characteristic, and is an aid in referring 

 occasional examples that have a smoother vestiture than usual. In 

 the male the tendency is to almost absolute uniformity in color from 

 base to s. t. line, and one of the examples comes close to reaching 

 this point. The median band is not well defined in any example of 

 this sex, while in all save one of the females it is very distinct. 



The tendency is toward benesignata in the female, and occasionally 

 a specimen of this sex may cause trouble in placing; but this is on 

 the whole so distinctly a powdery form that this must happen but 

 rarely, while in the male no confusion is possible. 



