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Deside?-afa* 



Eiqrithccla anticarla Walk., Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxiv, 1241, 1862 — 

 ^^ Female : Cinereous lawn-color. Palpi short. Abdomen cinereous, with 

 linvn-colorcd bands. Wings narrow, tjongated, with brownish lines, which 

 are partly denticulated; marginal points blackish, elongated. Fore wings, 

 acute, partly cinereous; discal mark blackish, transverse, varying in size; 

 exterior border very oblique. Hind wings cinereous, with the lines most 

 distinct toward the interior border. 



"Length of the body, 3 lines; of the wings, 10 lines. 



"a, b, Nova Scotia. From Lieutenant Redman's collection." 



Eupithccla i7iipUcata Walk., Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxiv, 1241, 18G2. — 

 '^Female: Brownish-cinereous. Palpi shorter tiian the breadth of the head. 

 Wings narrow, elongate, with many brown, slightly undulating lines ; mar- 

 ginal space biownish, including the pale, cinereous, denticulated, submarginal 

 Hue ; marginal line dark-brown ; discal point blacki.sh, most distinct in the 

 hind wings. Fore wings slightly acute ; exterior border very oblique. Hind 

 wings somewhat paler than the fore wings, except toward the exterior border. 



"Length of the bodj', 3 lines; of the wings, 10 lines. 



" a, b, Saint Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay. Presented by 

 Dr. Barnston. 



" c, h, Nova Scotia. From Lieutenant Redman's collection." 



Ei(pithecia expkmuta Walk., Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxiv, 1242, 1862. — 

 '^Female: Cinereous. Palpi short. Abdomen slightly crested. Wings nar- 

 row, elongate, with elongated, black, marginal lunules. Fore wings acute, 

 fawn-color, with several brown, slightly-undidating lines, and with two slight 

 whitish -bands; submarginal line whitish, denticulated; discal mark black, 

 transverse, rather large; exterior border very oblique. 



"Length of the body, 3 lines; of the wings, 10 lines. 



"a, d. Nova Scotia. From Lieutenant Redman's collection." 



Eupitkecia gelidata Moschler, Wien. Ent. Monats , iv, 47, 1860. — "Herr 

 Professor Zeller bestimmte mir diese Art als neu und'ist sie auch mit keiner 



* Un<lev tbo head of " Desiderata " arc given copies of descriptions of species not seen by nic, which 

 are supposed, iu most cases, to be valid. In the case of the three present species described by Mr. Walker, 

 I was nnable to find tlie types in the British Mnseum in 187-.;. I liave since then received drawings of 

 K implkata and A', cxplaiiata, made under the directions of Mr. A. G. Butler, but the identifications are 

 still very doubtful. 



