AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 9 



••osta at apical fourth and runs, with a slight outward inflection, 

 8traightly and very obliquely to internal margin, joining the latter at 

 about the middle. Outside of this second and outer transverse line, 

 the wing is darker colored than elsewhere and obsoletely irrorate with 

 dark dots, becoming faintly paler and obsoletely roseate below apices, 

 this brighter hue touching the fringes between 3rd median nervule 

 and internal nervure before the angle. Between first and third me- 

 dian nervules. the wing is deeply clouded with a darker shade than 

 elsewhere. With the exception noted above, the short fringes ar»' 

 dark brownish. Undersurface, brighter colored than upper. Over the 

 middle, from base to the external diffuse transverse band, the wing is 

 covered with longer hair-like roseate scales. Beyond the discal cross- 

 vein, at the base of the interspace between the disco-central and first 

 median nervules, is a prominent discolorous dark purple brown spot, or 

 rather an accumulation of dark hair-like scales ; the disco-central ner- 

 vule springing very near the inception of the discal cross-vein, at a 

 point where this latter is angulated superiorly, the interspace at base 

 is nearly as wide as the discal cell itself. A broad, transverse, exter- 

 nal shade band, corresponding with, but not resembling the outer 

 transverse line of the upper surface, since it appears as a broad, bright 

 ochreous band, widest and most distinct on costa, tapering to the stout 

 sub-median fold (the latter an obsolete nervure) and discontinued be- 

 fore internal margin. Below first median nervule, this band becomes 

 roseate ; here it crosses the central roseate patch externally and shows 

 as a darker, more linear shade. Outside the external transverse band, 

 the wing is sparsely sprinkled with blackish striae; below apices 

 washed with a rose colored shade, becoming obsolete inferiorly. 



Secondaries with the costa prominently exerted basally, thence cut 

 away straightly and downwardly obliquely to apex. The costal ner- 

 vure is correspondingly inflected, and joins the margin before the apex. 

 The external margin is rounded outwardly and evenly to anal ano-le, 

 immediately before which it is retired inwardly at the expense of the 

 straight and short internal margin. Above : the disc and the centre 

 of the wing are taken up with a large roseate patch, composed of 

 longer hair-like scales. At the discal cross-vein, a large, nearly black 

 scale patch, resembling that of the under surface of primaries, onlv 

 larger and more prominent and darkly colored. Outside of, and limit- 

 ing this roseate patch externally, is a transverse, somewhat arcuate, 

 dark roseate band, discontinued above and below. P^lsewhere the 

 wings are rather dark brownish ochreous, similarly colored with tlie 



TRANS. AMER. ENT. SOC. ( 2 ) JUNE, 1S67. 



