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ate inferiorly. The subterrainal line consists of a series of black inter- 

 spaceal dots obsolete below costa. A terminal series of short black 

 nervular dashes. A narrow terminal pale line; fringes ochreous, 

 touched interspaceally with blackish. Secondaries very pale clear yel- 

 low testaceous, pellucid, immaculate. Beneath, the primaries are pale 

 ochreous testaceous; faint traces of a discal streak and a transverse 

 line, also of a few terminal blackish nervular marks. Secondaries re- 

 sembling primaries ; a faint discal mark and a transverse Hue. 



Expanse, 28 m. m. Length ofhodii, 11 m. m. 



Ildhitat. — Atlantic District. (Trenton Falls, N. Y. Mr. James 

 Rulmgs!) 



Smaller than the common Xanthia bicolorago, Guenee, and readily 

 distinguished by the darker color of the primaries above, the maculate 

 subterminal line, the broken black stain of the reniform spot, and the 

 pellucid secondaries with their immaculate upper surface. With the 

 following it is more slenderly shaped, and differs from Xanthia rufago, 

 HUbner sp. by the less acutely produced apices of the primaries, less 

 rufous color, and smaller ordinary spots^ which latter in Hiibner's spe- 

 cies have prominent pale annuli. 



Xanthia puta, n. sji. (Plate 7, fig. 50, % .) 



% . Dull rufous. Head and thorax dull obscure rufous. Labial 

 palpi darker, more obscurely colored. Antennae testaceous. Legs, out- 

 wardly, dark, with subannulate tarsi. Abdomen somewhat flattened, 

 beneath and at the sides carneous grey, above more purely griseous 

 and without the rufous tinge of the under surface. 



Anterior wings dull obscure rufous, with distinct geminate ordinary 

 lines and prominent ornamentation. Basal half line faint, geminate, 

 with a pale included shade. Transverse anterior line distinct, gemi- 

 nate, perpendicular, slightly and regularly arcuated ; the inner line the 

 darker, somewhat blackish; the outer, dark rufous; the included 

 space pale and prominent. The veins tend to become marked with 

 pale scales. Orbicular faint, with a pale annulus and more or less ob- 

 scure centre. Median shade dark rufous, broad, diffuse and distinct, 

 somewhat irregular on the cell. Reniform large and prominent, up- 

 right, slightly medially constricted, stained with black inferiorly, with 

 a prominent pale annulus and rufous centre. From the base to trans- 

 verse posterior line, the wing is brighter colored than terminally. 

 Transverse posterior line very prominent, even, geminate, arcuate over 

 the median nervules beyond the reniform, over which it is incepted on 

 costa. It is composed of an outer distinct blackish line and a faint 



