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point ill the middle of the wing, below wliieh is a rounded jioint ; the line 

 is shaded externally with tawiiy-yellow, beyond which is a row of dark 

 Innnles edged externally with white ; these lunules are most distinct behind 

 the large point in the middle of the wing; from the costa, half-way between 

 the apex and the outer line, a white line, l)roken up by the whitish-yellow 

 venules, connects with the long, narrow, oblique, apical line ; a yellowish, 

 narrow, marginal line, separated l)y a narrower, dark line from the tawny, 

 slightly-checkered fringe. Hind wings dull chocolate-brown, with a deeply- 

 sinuous, median, pale line, and a su!)marginal scalloped line; fringe as on 

 anterior wings; beneath, riciily tinted on lioth wings with brown and tawny 

 scales; discal dots very distinct; a dark extradiscal line common to both 

 wings, well bent in the middle; half-way between this line and the edge of 

 the wing a row of white, triangular spots. Fringe distinctly checkered. 



Length of body, <?, O.GO ; of fore wing, c?, 0.70; expanse of wings, 

 J' 1.43 inches. 



Brooklyn, N. Y. (Graef) ; Philadelphia, Pa. (Grote and Robinson); 

 Easton, Pa. (Stultz). 



This description has been di-awn up from the type-specimen kindly 

 loaned by Mr. Grote. It is veiy characteristic, and need not be confounded 

 with any other of the species. 



Petrophora testata Packard. Plate 8, fig. 51. 



" Phalwna-Gwmetra tuHlala Liuu., Fauna. Svpcica, 331, 17G1." 



PhaUma Icslata Fabr., Eiit. Syst., iii (ii), -202. 1793. 



" Geomcira achathiata IlUbu., Scbm. Eur., tab. .W, figs. 301, 408 ab, 1796." 



L>/grw achaliiiuta Hiibii., Verz., 335, 1818. 



Ciduria achalinata Treits., Scbm. Eur., vi (ii), 170, 1828. 



Dup., Lep. France, viii (v), 311, pi. 193, Ug. 6, 1830. 

 Ehcira texhila Sfepb., 111., iii, 240, 1830. 

 lilectra achalinata Stepb., 111., iii, 241, 1831. 

 Cidaria achaliitaria Boisd., Ge.ii. et Inil., 213, 1840. 

 Lareiitia achathiaria H.-Scb., Scbm. Enr., iii. 172, figs. 301, 408, 1847. 

 Ek'dra achalinata Steph., Cat. Lep. Br. Mus., 190, 1850. 

 Cidaria teslala Guen., Pbal., ii, 473, 1857. 

 tijyrin testata Stand., Cat., 78, 1861. 

 Cidaria tmlata Walk., Li.st Lop. Het. Br. Mus., xxv, 1384, 1862. 



2 t? and 2 ? . — Closely allied structurally and in color lo F. diversihneata; 

 lemon-yellow; abdomen and hind wings whitish. Head slightly paler above 

 than the palpi. Fore wings lemon-yellow, with two parallel, reddish-ochreous 

 lines near the base, each making an obtuse angle in the discal space; beyond, 

 an ochreous line, curved outward around from a little within the middle of the 



