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undulating blackish band at one-fourth of the length; two slight 

 oblique and undulating brown bands beyond the middle, and to- 

 wards the exterior border a more oblique and undulating band of 

 blackish spots ; under side grayish, whitish about the borders. 

 Hind wings brownish, whitish towards the base and beneath. 

 Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 20. 



New York. 



Walker, C. B. M. 



6. H. ipomaeae Douhleday, Entomologist, 60. 



Primaries fusco-ferruginous, sprinkled with cinereous, an indis- 

 tinct middle band, a stigma pupilled with ashy-ferruginous, veins 

 towards the apex black. 



Florida. 



Walker, C. B. M. 



EDEMA Walk. 



Body moderately stout. Proboscis short. Palpi slender, pubes- 

 cent, extending beyond the head ; second joint more than twice the 

 length of the first ; third lanceolate, nearly half the length of the 

 second. Abdomen extending a little beyond the hinr' wings. Legs 

 slender; hind tibi^ with four long apical spurs. Wings mode- 

 rately broad. Fore wings straight along the costa, almost angular 

 at the tips; exterior border oblique and slightly convex; three in- 

 ferior veins; first and second contiguous at the base; third remote. 

 Male. Palpi ascending. Antennae minutely pectinated to beyond 

 five-sixths of the length, more than half the length of the body. 

 Female. Palpi porrect, shorter than those of the male. Antennae 

 simple, less than half the length of the body. 



1. E. unicornis Sm. Abb. Figured in Sm. Abb. II, pi. 83. 



Anteriors, light brown, variegated with patches of greenish- 

 white and with wavy dark brown lines, two of which inclose a small 

 whitish space near the shoulders; there is a short blackish mark 

 near the middle; the tip and outer hind margin are whitish, tinged 

 with red in the males; and near the outer hind angle there are one 

 small spot and two black dashes ; posterior wings of the male are 

 dirty white, with a dusky spot on the inner hind angle ; those of 

 the female are sometimes entirely dusky ; body brownish — two 

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