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of llio fore wings is rather fuller, but the palpi aiul form of the body are the 

 same. Body Ijrowii. Fore wings l>ro\\n, -witli very distinet white bands and 

 lines; a basal, broad, dark band, bent at right angles below the costa; beyond 

 is a wider l)n)wn spnee, succeeded by a thread-like, wavy, white line, the 

 largest wave lieing in the diseal space; beyond this is a broad blackish baud, 

 and Ix'vond an e(|ually broad, pure-white band, inclosing a round, black, 

 raliier distinct diseal dot; half-way between the white band and the outer 

 edge is a zigzag w hite line, bent at nearly right angles below the costa, and 

 curved oulward in the middle of the wing, with several joints in the curve; 

 the sinus in the diseal space is fdled with a large black lilotch ; a black, 

 oblique, ai)ical line, quite distinct; a marginal row of black dots; fringe pale, 

 checkered with dark. Hind wings subacute, of a soft, decided cream-color, 

 with no lines, but a small diseal dot, and a submarginal row of l)lack dots; 

 fringe concolorous with the rest of the wing; beneath, ochrcous cream-color, 

 with four large, distinct, diseal dots ; an extradiscal line, more or less dilTuse, 

 widening on the costa ; apical region brown, but the apex itself with a clear 

 triangular spot. Hind wings more clouded than the fore wings; two parallel 

 scalloped lines beyond the diseal dots, and a snlimarginal line. 



Length of body, 9, 0.30; of lore wing, 9, 0.40; expanse of wings, 0.84 

 inch. 



Sanzalito, Cal. (Bchrens). 



This fine species differs from O. rahro-su[fusala in the white bands on the 

 fore wings, and the cream-colored hind wings, and in the under side of both 

 wings being cream-colored. 



OciiYRiA DESiGNATA Packard. Plate 8, tig. 63. 



"Gcometra dcsigtxitn Ilufiiasel, Berlin. Mag., iv, 612, n. Cat., 17G0." 



" Kottembtirj;, Aum. Hufu., Tali. Scbin., xi, 85, 1777." 

 " Boikh., Enr. Scliin., v, 385, 1794." 

 Gcometra 2>ro2>iiipialii Denis anil Schitf., Verz., 112, 17V(j. 

 " Fabr., Mant., 205, 1787." 

 " lliibn., Sebm. Eur., 286, 1797." 

 Ochyrin propuijiiiUa lliibn., Yerz., 3o-l, 1818. 

 Cidariu propiii/iKiria Treits., Sobui. Enr., vi (ii), 141, 1828. 

 Ciflaiia proptiipiula .Stfpb., Nomencl. Br. Ins., 44, 1829. 

 Kiiholin pnii>u(/iiaria l)np., Lep. France, viii (v), 184, pi. 183, fig. 5, 1830. 

 Cidaria 2)ro2)U(/iiala Stupb., 111., iii, 220, 1831. 



Boisd., Gen. IncL, 214, 1840. 

 Larentia propugnaria Il.-Scb., Scbm. Eur., iii, 147, 1847, 

 Curcmiit propiiijnala Sti>pb., Cat. Cr. Lop., 188, 1850. 

 Onen., Pbal., ii, 412, 1857. 



Walk., List Lep. Uet. Br. Miis., xxv, 13U4, 1862. 

 Cidaria disignata Zeller, Verb. But. Zoul. Ges. Wieu, xxii, 494, 1872. 



