16 GROTE AND ROBINSON. 



the apex downward, apically the shade is deepened, throwing out the 

 pale color of the narrow post-median line at the costa more stronj::ly 

 than elsewhere, from the contrast, l^osterior wings, concolorous with 

 abdomen, a little more cinereous and darker basally ; terminally, the 

 wing shows a pale shade and a faint continuous transverse line, run- 

 ning within and nearly coincident with external margin. Undersur- 

 face of both wings, cinereous, shaded with purplish along external 

 and costal margins; a common, distinct, pale, sub-terminal line crosses 

 both wings; on the primaries this is somewhat S-shaped, corresponding 

 to its analogue on the upper surface. Fringes, dark. 



Expanse:, % 9 , 0.65 to 0.75 inch. Lemjth of body, 0.30 to 0.45 

 inch. 



Hahkat. — Atlantic District. ( N. Y. to Penna. !) 



The anal segment of the abdomen is somewhat suddenly constricted 

 and produced in the female of this very interesting species, which 

 somewhat curiously recalls the ornamentation of Anthoecia, and more 

 distantly the habitus of Ichthyura. Of the American species referred to 

 Asopia, by Lederer, it seems to more nearly resemble the common 

 Asopia farinalis, Linn, sp , than any t)ther, but is much more robu.st in 

 the body parts, compared with the general size. 



BOTYS, Tre'dsrhke, emend. Led. 



Botys signatalis. (Plate 2, fig. 11, -^ ). 



Rhodaria signatalis, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. Het., Tt. .34, Sup. Pt. 4, j.. 12S2. 

 (1H65). 



Male am? Female. — Head, above, and palpal tips, reddish ochraee- 

 ous; very narrow paler lateral lines on the " front," margining the 

 eyes ; beneath, the palpi are whitish. Thorax, dark ochraceous, with 

 a faint reddish tinge; abdomen, cinereous, silky, shaded with ochreous 

 at base, the segments narrowly fringed posteriorly with pale scales; 

 anal tuft ratlier prominent, reddish ochreous above, beneath whitish. 

 Undersurface of thorax and abdomen, silky, whitish. Legs, whitish, 

 faintly shaded with cinereous outwardly. 



Anterior wings acute. Above, of an even intense pinkish-purple 

 color ; two transverse distinct yellowish-white lines ; the first (ante- 

 median) is discontinued at the costa, and very slightly irregular, nearly 

 straight ; the second (post-median) is strongly outwardly arcuate supe- 

 riorly ; over the median nervules, where it is most constricted, it i? 

 composed of disconnected dots, closely approximate; inferiorly. it ruriK 

 parallel with and more approximate to the first line to internal margin. 

 Posterior wings, silky, cinereous, deepening in hue towards external 



