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<ail, and inclosod in a lliin silknn coroon in moss. T have now soon, in all, 

 altonf fifteen specimens (A' C Jluviala and six ol" ('. s^'mmnna, aw^ find (lial 

 tlip ai)senee in each of what were considered Hie distinetivo iiiarkin','s of Ihe 

 oilier is not eonslanl. The suhapical hlofc.h of C. Jluviata may be traced inoic 

 or less distinctly (sometimes quite distinctly) in C. iicmmaria, while sonn; 

 specimens of C. //wii/«/« have the central spo( ])laee(l iiilheli<rhf riiiir; onlv 

 the dark irroiind of C. geiiiDiaria makes this riiiy: shine l()rlh mneli more 

 briirhtly, just as a ncirro's suhle skin enhances liie wliifciiess of his eyes. ( )iie 

 of my l>i-ed specimens, having given me the slip over (he edge of the lai)le, 

 was detected in a dark corner of (he room by (he whi(e spo(s on (he lore; 

 wings. As to the other markings, they are, line for line, preciselv similar; 

 so that the ground-color alone remains to make the sexes look unlike, and per- 

 haps further I)reeding may sometimes ujiset this.'" 



Plemykia MULTiFERAi'A Packard. Plate 8, fig. 22. 



Camptogramma muliiftrata Walk., List Lep. llrt. I!r. Mns., xxvi, 171.">, 186i. 



f) i . — Body and wings reddish-brown, with a slight purplish tinge. Fore 

 wings with the costa fuller, more sinuate than in P.Jlutnata, crossed by about 

 fifteen parallel lines at a regular distance apart; the lines are firm, not very sin- 

 uate, with reddish-brown bands between them. A band just beyond the middle 

 of the wing is somewhat irregular, broken transversely into two or three 

 pieces, and is wider on the costa than elsewhere. A submarginal white band 

 is much more sinuate than the others, making a large, rather deep, suliapical 

 fiexure. This line is double. Another whitish line, between it and the edge 

 of the wing, ends firmly on the apex, and ])ostcriorly ends just before the 

 inner angle of the wing. On the hind wings, which are rather paler than the 

 anterior pair, and are a little less sinuate on the out(T edgi? than in P. Jluviata, 

 there are about five dark lines, the inner three of which fade out before reach- 

 ing the middle of (Ik- wing. A small discal dot, situated far within the middle 

 of the wing, as in P. Jluviata. Beneath reddish-brown, with whitish blotches 

 and lines, effaced behind (he costal region and toward the base of the wing. 

 Costal region checkered and marked wi(li reildish-lirow n and white. A reg- 

 ularly and .deeply scalloped submarginal line; a distinct, oblique, apical, white 

 line Hind wings colored much as above. 



Length of body, (? , 0.40; of fore wings, <?, 0.50-0 54; expanse of wings, 

 0.95-1.10 inches. 

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