Sept., I9I3.] Pearsall: The Genus Philobia. 189 



below it, along outer margin. Fringes white, heavier and purplish brown 

 within excavation. Secondaries are crossed by two lines, the basal apparently 

 a continuation of the intradiscal of primaries ; straight or a little wavy, the 

 extra discal slightly curved outward is also a continuation of the primary 

 outer line, and on both wings is accompanied by a broken dusky shade line 

 or band in submarginal space. The round discal dots dark brown, distinct ; 

 none on primaries ; marginal dots as on primaries, fringes white. Beneath, 

 the veins and costa are ochraceous, and the white surface more heavily 

 sprinkled with dark scales basally and along costal region of primaries. Lines 

 reproduced as above, the intradiscal, heavy and dark brown, crosses both 

 wings. The extra discal, fine and clear at costa, fades out toward inner 

 margin of primaries, and outside, parallel to it, there is on both wings a 

 broad, irregular band, varying in my series of thirty-six specimens from dull 

 purplish brown, through ochre brown to rusty ochre. Discal spots dark brown, 

 large, distinct, linear on primaries, round on secondaries. The apico- 

 costal spot on the primaries is well marked, but ochre brown in color, and 

 the three round dusky spots at center and outside extra discal line are present, 

 but less clear in outline than above. The marginal line within excavation 

 broken, and the fringe paler, nearly white, otherwise as above. Body the 

 color of wings, thinly sprinkled with dark scales, the abdomen ochreous at 

 tip, with a double row of six to seven dark brown dorsal dots, and a single 

 row on each side below lateral margin in both sexes. Legs tinged with 

 ochreous, blotched with dark brown. 



Types.— One ^ from Big Indian Valley, Catskill Mts., N. Y., VI, 

 28, 1907, and one ? from Big Indian Valley, Cats. Mts., N. Y., July 8, 

 1898, are in the author's collection, with co-types of seven males and 

 eight females from the same locality, dates ranging from May 28 to 

 July 10, and one male from Long Island, N. Y., June 21, 1889, all 

 taken by the writer. 



Habitat. — This, our largest species, is single brooded, and is not 

 uncommonly found from Penna. north and eastward, more plentifully 

 in the mountain districts. 



Philobia aemulataria Walker. 



1861. Walker, List Lep. Brit. Mus., XXIII, 884. Macaria. 



1872. Zeller, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, XX, 487. Macaria. 



1874. Morrison, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XVI, 198. Macaria secto- 



maculafa. 

 1876. Packard, Monog. Geom., 288, PI. X, Fig. 15. Semiothisa enotata 



Guen. 



The type of cvmulataria, a d" from " New York " is in the British 

 Museum. A specimen, now present in my collection, has been com- 



