106 BULLETIN 48, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



This species does not seem to be taken by the Albany collectors, 

 bnt I have a specimen from Ne\vbur<j, nearly halfway up the Hudson. 

 It seems more common southwardly and is fairly well represented in 

 collections. 



The species is so simi)ly marked that it seems as if mistake was 

 impossible. The white blotch on the internal margin is (juite unique 

 in the genus as represented iu our fauna. There is 11.0 difference in 

 maculation between the sexes, and the ditterence in size is not greatly 

 marked. The male is more heavily built, however, and the vestiture is 

 more shaggy above and more m oolly beneath. 



Boniolocha edictalis, Walktr. 



1859. Wiilker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Heterocera, \VI, '28 Hyptna. 

 1893. Smith, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 44, 393, Bomoluclia. 



9 veJlifera, Grote. 

 1873. Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., I, 87, itl. II, tig. 7, Meijhupeua. 

 1893. Smith, Bull. U. S.Nat. Mu.s.. 44, 393, pr. syn. 



(? lentiginosa, Grote. 

 1873. Grote, Bull. Buff. Soe. Nat. Sci., I, 87, Mcghypena. 



Ground color brown, varying somewhat in shade from a violaceous 

 gray to liglit chocolate brown. Head and thorax concolorous, abdomen 

 a little paler. Primaries with the markings quite sharply detined, mot- 

 tled by numerous brown or blackish striga', which are transverse, short, 

 and ri villous, not connected to form continuous lines. Transver.se 

 anterior line yellow'sh, more or less evident and more or less marked 

 outwardly by a black line or shade, making one large outward bend iu 

 the submedian interspace. Transverse posterior line yellowish, pre- 

 ceded by a brown or black shade line, upright to the median vein, 

 thence with a little incurve, obliquely to the inner margin, forming 

 thus an obtuse angulation on the median vein. Subterminal line pale, 

 indefined, marked by white scales, sometimes also by blackish spots; 

 but more usually by a du.sky preceding shade. In course it is sinuate, 

 with a prominent medial outcurve. A series of more or less marked 

 brown terminal lunules. Fringes a little waved or scalloped. Apex 

 usually jialer, inferiorly margined by a dark brown obli(|ue shade, 

 which merges into the ground color. Ordinary spots well marked, 

 black. Orbicular small, round; reniform lunate or kidney-shaped. In 

 the submedian interspace there is a distinct tendency toward a darker 

 shade to connect the median lines, which here approach each other 

 closely. Secondaries varying from fuscous gray to nearly blackish, 

 the fringes i)aler; sometimes with a faint discal lunule, and more rarely 

 with traces of transverse striga' similar to those on the primaries. 

 Beneath, varying from luteous gray to smoky, with brown transverse 

 strigie more or less distinct and most obvious on secondaries; a more 

 or less marked outer line and a discal lunule, usually obsolete on 

 primaries and i)rominent on the secondaries. On the secondaries there 

 is often a broad, darker margin, and this is sometimes indicated on the 

 primaries. 



