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exlrcmity by a loiigitiuliiial black spot; (lie retiuiiniiig smok(3-col()ro(l stripes, 

 three in miiniicr, on each side ot" (lie median sdipc, are scarcely Fusccpdble 

 of verbal definition; each segment of tlie liellv after the fourdi has a cluster of 

 lilack dots, which are not present in any other British species of the genus ; but 

 Mr. Helliiis informs me that niarkiriirs of the same color and character occur 

 in Cidoria picafa. It feeds on the common chickweed {Alsine medki), and is. 

 full-fed at the beginning of Augusl. It spins its cocoon on or just und(M- (he 

 surftice of the earth, and remains in the chrysalis state all the winter. In 

 captivity, it is sometimes double-brooded, but not in a state of nature.'" — New- 

 man's British Moths, 159. 



RiiEUMAPTERA LUGUBKATA Packard. IMate 9, fig. 8. 



" GeoiiHlia liictiiala Denis ami Scliift'., Wieii Verz., 31t), u. Cat." 



" Gcometra Iransrirnata Thuuberg, Mus. Nat., To, lig. S, 1788." 



"Geometra luctuala Hubii., Btr., ii, 4, 3, T, 1792; Scliiii. Eur., a.>), 179(i." 



Cidaria lucJiiala Treits., Scliiii. Eur., vi (ii), 214, 1828. 



Melanippc htclimla Diip., Lep. Trauce, viii (v), 28G, }il. V.M, fig. 4, \r*:M>. 



BoisO., Geu. Iiid., 21G, 1840. 

 Lariiilia luctuuria H.-Sch., Schm. Eur., iii, 150, 1847. 

 Mdauipiie liictitata Giien., Phal., ii, 392, 1857. 



Cidaria ohdiwiala Moesclil.. Mouats. Wien, 374, tab. 10, tig. 3, 18(jO. 

 ilclanippc liictiiaUi Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxv, 1284, 1862. 

 Melanippc coiicoidala Walk., List Lep. Het. Br Mus., xxv, 1295, 18i;2. 

 Cidaria litguiiratu Slaudiuger, Cat., 2d eil., 189, 1871. 

 Jildanippe Kodiakata Pack., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvi, 23, pi. 1, tiir. 7, 1874. 



3 c? and 2 9 . — Body and wings blackish ; body whitish beneath. Fore 

 wings blackish on basal half, with grayish scales, and a zigzag line just betbre 

 the black di.scal mark; just beyond the discal dot, a broad whitish band, wider 

 on the costal than on the inner .edge, diffuse externally; on the inside scal- 

 loped, and slightly excavated on the median vein ; beyond this band are two 

 obscure, pale, wavy lines the outer ending on the costa, close to the apex ; 

 edge of the wing with a narrower l)lack line; fringe paler than in the other 

 species, checkered with black. Hind wings with a Inoad white band, obscure 

 on the hind edge, and angulatcd outward just below the middle of the wing; 

 beneath, both wings white, with wide black borders, but white at base, with 

 a basal blackish shade; an outer blackish band enclosing (he darker, large, 

 distinct, oval, discal dot, and below this angulatcd outward ; hind wings white, 

 with a broad black border, and a narrow dark line just beyond the distinct 

 black discal dot, which is much smaller than that on the primaries. Legs 

 blackish, ringed with white 

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