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iiN the joints elonjitito. The uiKlersidc olall the. joints aic pitted, most 

 l)roiiiinentl\' so toward tlie middle. In tlie I'emale the Joints are I'nr- 

 iiislied with short lateral bristles, arising very close to the base, and 

 tiiero are no lateral tubercles. The sensory pittings, liowever, are even 

 more prominent than in the male, and the surface on the upper side is 

 imbricated in ai)pearance. The harpes of the male are quite simph*, 

 nearly squarely cut olV at ti[), and there is a broad corneous, process 

 near base which is ol)tusely ])roduced superiorly. Altogether the spe- 

 cies is a well-marked one. 



Epizenxis niajoialis, new species. 



Genoa 1 ground color dull smoky fuscous, with luteous and l»lack 

 powderings. Head and collar sometimes marked with fuscous. Pri- 

 maries with the costal region whitish gray, with the incei)tion of the 

 ordinary lines marked by dusky ])atches, less distinct than in E. 

 (inierii'ali.s. Ordinary lines all defined, though liardly distinct except 

 on costa. IJasal line obscure, marked by white scales. Transverse 

 anterior line nearly upright, unevenly outcurved in the interspaces, 

 blackish, outwardly luarked by a costal dusky spot, inwardly by a 

 paler shade, becoming white on the costa. Transverse posterior line 

 irregularly and strongly dentate as a whole, with a tolerably even out- 

 cuvve; incurved in the submediau interspace, somewhat dilated on the 

 costa and followed by a pale shade, which is white on the costa, else 

 yellowish, except near the inner margin, where white i»owderings some- 

 times obtain. Subteriniiial line irregularly dentate and angulate, 

 white in the costal region, where it is preceded by a distinct, broad 

 black shade, becoming yellowish and sometimes almost lost toward the 

 inner margin. A narrow, even, or only slightly lunate, terminal black 

 line. Fringes smoky, cut with luteous over the interspaces. The 

 median shade is nearly upright, vague, diffuse, sometimes hardly trace- 

 able. The ordinary spots are marked as indefinite luteous blotches, 

 ami sometimes a luteous shade is apparent through the median cell. 

 Secondaries paler, more powdery than the primaries, with three trans- 

 verse lines, of which the outer is most evident, whitish, and sharply 

 dentate. An even, dusky terminal line. Beneath whitis^h, ])owdery, 

 with three confu.sed indelinite transverse lines and a discal spot on all 

 wings. 



Expanse of wings, L**.> to .'U mm. - 1.20 to 1..')7 inches. 



Habitat. — Xew York (Ithac;!); Ohio (Columbus): Illinois (Carbon- 

 dale). 



1 have six specimens of this species before me, all of them females. 

 The species is curiously intermediate in maculation l)etween h\ (rmiila 

 and E. (tnKrictdi.s, hnt is larger than either, and differs from both in the 

 hnig palpi, which considerably exceed the vertex, while they are shorter 

 than in the Pseiuiafjlossa series. In the shape of the i)iimaries it more 

 nearly resembles Fj.(vninla in the rounded ai>ex and outer margin than 

 E. amcricaii.s. in which the apex is rectangular and soiiicwhat well 

 defined. 



