4 GROTE AND ROBINSON. 



letely superiorly. Legs, finely scaled, blackish, slightly touched with 

 grey scales; hind tibi;\) fringed with long and sparse ashen hairs, and 

 provided with two pairs of short, slight, sub-e(jual spurs. Antennae, 

 moderate, black, annulate with white, more prominently so beneath, 

 where the base of the "club" is also white, whereas above, this is en- 

 tirely black. 



Wings, blackish-brown, lustrous; anterior pair, trigonate, produced 

 at apices, external margin slightly oblique, hardly rounded, slightly 

 projected at internal angle ; posterior pair, rounded along external 

 margin and having internal margin a little shorter than abdomen. 



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Above, the anterior wings are lustrous blackish-brown, faintly shaded 

 with olivaceous at base and along internal margin, immaculate, except 

 a very faint series of disconnected pale marks, three in number, situate 

 isub-terminally and obsoletely, constituting the usual band ; these 

 marks are composed of a few powdery pale scales and readily escape 

 observation ; the first and longest is situate sub-costally across the api- 

 cal nervules; the remaining two are situate near the base of the inter- 

 spaces between the upper median nervules, the upper most the smallest 

 and nearer the external margin. In shape all these marks are linear; 

 that below costa a little arcuate; fringes, white, prominent, narrowly 

 interrupted with blackish at the extremity of the nervules. Posterior 

 wings, blackish-brown, immaculate, with long olivaceous brown hair 

 along internal margin, and spreading sparsely over the base; fringes, 

 white, prominent, obsoletely interrupted witli blackish at the extremity 

 of the nervules. Beneath : anterior wings colored as on upper surface^ 

 but a little paler, with a slight purple shade, and having the sub-ter- 

 minal pale marks very slightly more prominent; fringes as on upper 

 surface; the posterior winirs are blackish-brown, lustreless, and the 

 whole surface is very distinctly irrorate, or powdered with cinereous or 

 slaty-ashen scales, except f )r a rather wide longitudinal space before 

 internal margin, extending from base to external margin, towards 

 which it widens, where the ground color of the wing prevails, entirely 

 free from pale scales, which again are sprinkled beyond it along inter- 

 nal margin ; these irrorations are gathered centrally so as to form a 

 linear median sinuate band, continued from costal margin to the space 

 before internal margin, which is free from irrorations; fringes as on 

 upper surface. 



E.rpunup, 0.05 inch. Ltnrjtli of hod;/. 0.50 inch. 



Ilnhitiii .\tlantic J)istriet. (Georgia I) 



Resembles He.speria samoset, Scudder, (Ifrnp. )iemoris. Edwards.) 

 but differs by the obsolescence of the pale marks on anterior wings 

 and, the coloration of the posterior wings beneath. 



