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JniAMi. widi a lolly wliitf tddtli opjiosilc lliti dol ; u ilccplv-sciilloped, siilmiai- 

 giiial. white line, iiiucli as aliovc; IViiigc as above. Hind \viii<rs white, with 

 a discal dot and a suliniaririiuil, inteirnplcd. dniihle hne, more or less obsoh^te, 

 and represented by scatti'red dots. 



Length ofl)()dy, c?,ll.-10, 9,0.;!."): of lore winu, i/,0.48, 9,0.52; expanse; 

 of wings, 1.0") inelies. 



iSanzalito, Cal. (Belirens): ('alirornia (Edwards). 



l\HKr.M.\pii:RA KTFK ILLATA Packard. Plate S, tiir. 70. 



Mtlanlliia niftciUala (iiicii. !, l^lm).. ii. lir^d, is.'i". 



Wnlli.!. List Lcp. ITct. lir. Mils., xxiv, V27-J. mn. 



4 S and S 9. — Ahdcmen and iii(nin(l-eol(u- ot the win<>s elear white. 

 Head, thorax, and base ot" lore wings blackish, with blacker lines. Fore 

 wings with the liase blackish, containing three zigzag black lines, with stecl- 

 l)liie scales between; edge ofthe area shaded broadl)- with brown; the edge 

 is very irregnlar, with teeth projecting out on the veins, the tooth on the 

 median vein being small, not large and rounded as in I'. hninneiciUutii : a 

 clear, white, broad mesial bund, with a small discal dot, limited externally l)y 

 a regnlarly-scalloped line, the largest scallop being iu the second median 

 space; the white band contracts on the costa, being of the same width as on 

 the inn<'r edge; two parallel, submarginal, broad, white, scalloped lines, end- 

 ing iu the large black-brown costo-apical patch; a dark patch filling two 

 scallops above the middle and another at the inner angle of thc! wing. Hind 

 wings with a discal dot ; an extradiscal line ; edge of the wings broadly 

 shaded with dark scales. 



Length of body, c?, 0.45, 9, 0.40; of fore wing, tJ , 0.60, 9, 0.55; expan.se 

 of wings, 1.25 inches. 



Quebec, Canada (Bclanirer) ; London, Canada (Sannders) ; Brunswick, 

 Me. (Packard); White Moimtains, New IIam|)sliire, July 20-30 (Scudder); 

 Essex ('ounty, Vermont (Cassino) ; Brookline. Mass., June 18 (Shurtleif) ; 

 Andover, Mass. (Sanborn); Amherst, i\Iass. (Goodell) ; Cambridge, Mass. 

 (Harris Coll.); Brooklyn, N. Y. (Graef) ; Albany, N. Y., May 29, June 24, 

 ,Iuly 21 (Lintner): Ibilfalo, N. Y. (Crote); Oneida, N. Y. (Hawley); East.)n, 

 Pa. (Stultz); Lansing, Mich. (Cook). 



This fine sj)ecies may be identified by the white middle baml, the black- 

 ish head, thorax, and i)ase of ti)re wings, and the larije blackish costo-apical 

 patch. 



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