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two (lots ill cacli iiilerspact'. Fiiinrc asli-colorcd, soMH-rnncs clicckcicil, .uid 

 often witli a dark line within the middle. Hind wings clear smoUy ])ale-asli, 

 with a sintrle, ()l)s()Iele, inueli-curved line, iisnall\- represented hy an obsenre 

 row ol' venular (h)ls; sometimes a diHuse, faint, snj)maru;inal line. Beneath, 

 finely dnstcd with brown; the diseal dots dislinet; two paralhd extradiscal 

 lines, the inner often absent, the outer is the reproduction of the outer line 

 al)ove, and bent and scalloped as above; ;i dark apical cloud; the mari,'inal 

 line and checkers in the fringe more distinct than above, (hi the hind 

 wings, three mnch-curved lines, the two inner scallo])ed anteriorly. Leg.s 

 dark, ringed narrowly with white. Abdomen with twin black spots on each 

 segment, edged behind with white. 



Length of body, c?, 0.42-O.nO, ?, 0.45-0.48; of Ibrc wing, c?, 0.55-0.64, 

 9, 0.63-0.70; e.xpanse of wings, 1.05-1.25 inches. 



Caribou Island, Straits of Belle Isle, I.abra(h)r, August (Packard); 

 White Mouidains, New Hampshire, Septeml)er '19, Tuckerman's liaviue 

 (Shurtleff, Mns. Bost. Boc. Nat. Hist.); White 3Iountains, August '20-30 

 (Scudder); New Hampshire (Dodge); Deering, N. H., August 18 (Cas.sino); 

 New Hampshire (Harris Coll.); Mount Ascutney, Vermont, August (Sanborn, 

 Mus. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist.) ; base of Mount Katahdin, Maine, August 15 : 

 Brunswick, Me. (Packard); Salem, Mass.,- August 31, Septend)er 23 (Cassino); 

 Andierst, Mass., Septemb(>r 20, (L. W. Goodell); New York (Mead and 

 Smith); Trenton Falls, N. Y. (Osten-Sacken, Mus. Comp. ZooL); Penn- 

 sylvania (H. Sachs) ; Missouri (Riley) ; California (Edwards) ; Sanzalito, 

 Cal. (Behrings); Victoria, Vancouver Island, July (Crotch, Mus. Comp. 

 Zoo!.). 



This is an exceedingly variable species in this country as well as in 

 Europe; but it may usually be recognized by the acute lore wings, with the 

 inner and outer russet-brown bands, the acute jagged projections of the outer 

 line extending out further than usual; by the oblicpie, black, apical streak, 

 and the want of any cloud beneath the line. It is nearest allied to P. hcmliuta, 

 from which it dilfers in the more acute fore wings, the russet-brown ijands, 

 and the large projection of the outer liu<\ In some specimens, howi-ver, the 

 direction of the outer line is much as in liersiliala. A common variation is 

 in the ab.sence of tlie brown baiuls, and in the size and extent of the large 

 projection of the outer line and the depth of the scallops. Sometimes the 

 line between the projection and the costa is quite direct in its course, and the 



