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runs obliquely nearly to tornus, then returns to discal dot, bends again to an angle on 

 vein \c and ends on middle of inner margin; a gray line from eosta before apex to 

 middle of outer margin ; a subterminal gray line ; termen pale ocherous ; an ocherous 

 line from tornus into the loop of outer line, edged with gray. Hind wings with inner 

 and outer mesial gray lines ; disk strigose dotted with black ; terminal black spots 

 large, metallic pupilled, set in a pale ocherous field. Expanse, 23 mm. 



"England" (Hiibner) [an error] ; " United States " (Walker); 

 Lake Teedyuscong, Pike Co., Pa. (Clemens). 



4 specimens, Amherst, Mass., Orono, Maine (coll. Prof. C. H. 

 Fernald). 



The larva is unknown. 



Elophila fulicalis Clemens. 

 Cataclysta fulicalis Clemens, Proc. acad. nat. sci. Phil., xii, 217, i860. 

 Cataclysta angulatahs Lederer, Wien. ent. Mon., vii, 486, 1863. 

 Cataclysta confusalis Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., xxxiv, 1334, 1865. 

 Chryseudeton avernalis Grote, Trans. Kans. acad. sci., viii, 53, 1878. 

 Cataclysta fulicalis Grote, New ch. list No. Am. moths, 54> 1882. 

 Cataclysta avernalis Fernald, Smith list Lep. bor. Am., no. 4157, 1891. 

 Cataclysta fulicalis Hampson, Trans, ent. soc. Lond., 149, 1897. 

 Elophila fulicalis Fernald, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4500, 1903. 



Fore wing gray with white lines ; two costal streaks converge toward tornus ; 

 two inner transverse lines, a discal spot and rounded area on middle of inner margin, 

 all white. Hind wings white; a mesial broad gray band ; disk powdered with dark 

 scales, with a fine gray line limiting this area within ; terminal black dots separated 

 by metallic scales in a yellow field. Expanse, 12 to 15 mm. 



Marked after the pattern of E. via^ttificalis, but the white marks 

 reduced or obsolete, the black dots of hind wing not pupilled. 



Easton, Pa. (Clemens); "North America" (Walker); New 

 Mexico (Grote). 



20 specimens, Amherst, Mass., Chicopee, Mass. (coll. Prof. C. 

 H. Fernald) ; 8, Texas ; 2, Hot Springs, Arizona, cotypes of aver- 

 nalis Grote (coll. Fernald) ; Montclair, N. J., June 9, 1899 (W. D. 

 Kearfott) ; 10, N. H. (coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Columbus, Ohio, 

 May 25 (W. C. Metz) ; Plainfield, N. J. (Mrs. F. O. Herring) ; 

 New Brighton, Pa., August 20, 1902 (H. D. Merrick) ; 2, New 

 York, nos. 2819 and " dugway " June 25, 1859 ( C °U- Asa Fitch); 

 Victoria, Tex., March 31 (E. A. Schwarz) ; 25, Plummer's Island, 

 Md., June, August (A. Busck) ; Salem, Oregon, June 26, 1898 (T. 

 Kincaid) ; Pullman, Wash., August 9, 1898 (C. V. Piper). 



Ai. a. avernalis Grote. White marks of fore wing lost except subapically, the 

 inner bar continued across wing as a fine flexuous line. 



