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OcHYKiA CAENEATA Packard. Plate 9, fig. 3. 



Pliibdlaplcnjx carnata Pack., Sixth Rep. Peab. Acad. Sc, 4.'!, 1874 ; Proc. Bust. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvi, pi. 1, 

 lig. 9, 1874. 



2 <?. — This .species has the style of marking-s of a Petrophora ; not bav- 

 iii^f. the miineroii.s straight, wavy lines of Philalapteryx. J'alpi unusually 

 loiiiT, l)cnk-likc. Fon; wings produced toward the ape.x, which is, however, 

 rat iicr niori' roiiiidcd than usual, lliud wings more jiroduced toward the 

 apex than usual. Body aiul wings pale ash. Fore wings dull ash at ba.se, 

 and with a broad tlesh -colored band, contracted on the sulnnedian vein, where 

 it is edged on both sides with black ; the flesh-color is less distinct on the 

 costa, where there are gray streaks ; a broad, dark, cinereous band cros.ses 

 the middle of the wing, darker on the edges, and with a series of obscure 

 ringlets along the middle ; the outer edge has three scallops in the middle, 

 larger and projecting more than the others; beyond this band, the wing is 

 ilesh-colored again, with a fine series of Ijlack venular dots in the middle of 

 the carneous band ; the latter is bordered externally by a tine, white, scal- 

 loped line; a row of tine black twin spots along the edge; fringe dark cine- 

 reou.s, interrupted by darker, slightly-marked, venular spots. Hind wings 

 whitish-ash, witii three obscure scalloped lines, the outer one being the heavi- 

 est, dark cinereous, and edged with snow-white externally; a faint discal dot; 

 edge of wing with a conspicuous, interrupted, black line; fringe pale ash. 

 Abdomen with a row of dark dorsal spots, as usual in the genus. Two ante- 

 ri(u- pairs of legs, gray, ringed with white. Beneath gray, densely speckled 

 with darker scales; discal dots large and distinct on both wings; a square, 

 blackish, costal spot on the basal third of the wing; another over the discal 

 dot; a dark shade crosses the outer third of the wing, ending in a dark costal 

 shade; a submarginal row of dark intervenular ^intches, lined externally wnth 

 white scallops; fringe as above. Hind wings much more speckled than usual, 

 with three scalloped lines, the outermost very heavy and conspicuous. 



Length of boily, 0.42; of fore wing, 0.53 ; expanse of wings, 0.95-1.00 

 inch. 



California (Edwards). 



This ibrm may be recognized l)y the two broad flesh-colored bands on 

 the j)riuiarics, the long, large palpi, and the heavy outer line of scallops on the 

 under side of the secondaries. 



