a rouiiil, small, lull distinct diseal dot; an indistinct snl)niarginal hand; five 

 dark bands on the inner cd'jc. wliicli do not pass lieyond tlu" median vein. 

 Margin of wings nniHuinly dusky, witiioul any light or dark scales. (Jii 

 second ring of ahdcuncn, a Wroad black band, interrupted l)y a i)ale, mesial, 

 white, narrow band, wliicli extends along six rings, with a mesial black dot 

 on each ring. Sides of abdomen with i)rownisli scales; extreme lip pale 

 luteoiis. ^largin ofl)otli wings black; fringe as in tore wings; beneath c;lear 

 cinereous, with no i)rown scales; the broad costal <lark bands inclosing two 

 much smaller bands; a short line half-way between diseal dot and outer edge 

 of wing. Margin of both wings du.sky, containing a white liair-line; fringe paler 

 than margin of wing. Hind wings with five dusky lines, two within the di.scal 

 dot (sometimes wanting); the third, including the dot, very narrow; the two 

 outer ones broader, especially the submarginal one, w^hich reaches to the edge. 

 Length of body, 0.20 ; length of lore wing, 0.30 ; expanse of wings, 0.85 



inch. 



London, Canada (Saunders) ; Norway, Me., common (S. L Smith. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool.); Boston, Mass. (Harris Coll., Sanborn, Morrison); Nantucket, 

 Mass., August (L. L. Thaxter, Mus. B. S. N. H.); Catskill Mountains, New^ 

 York (Mus. Comp. ZooL); Albany, N. Y. (Lintner); Pennsylvania (Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., Amer. Ent. Soc); Ohio (Morrison); Missouri (Kiley, No. 40); 

 "West Virginia, April 9 (Mead) ; near Waco, Tex., June 6, October, Novem- 

 ber (Belfrage). 



Differs from E. Strattonata, to which it is rather closely allied, by the 

 wings being more cinereous, and beneath with no brown scales at all; by the 

 geminate white V-shaped spot on the inner angle, and the five lines on the 

 under side of the lund wrings, which only appear on the inn(M- (Mlge above; by 

 the interrupted black band on the second abdominal ring, and the white line 

 on six rings, each ring clouded by a black dot; and by the very pale luteous, 

 straight, converging hairs of the extremity. 



This is our most common species, and may be distinguished by the 

 pointed lore wings, with the numerous transverse lines angulated sharply out- 

 ward, the extra-discal line forming a sharp angle o^jposite the diseal dot, and 

 notched inward ou the subcostal vein; by the distinct subinargiual wavy 

 white line ending in a large wliitc twin spot at the inner angle; by the fine 

 dark lines on the liiiid wings; and by the heavy black costal spots and mar- 



ginal lines on the under side. 



