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This species is readily known b\- its wings l)cing green along the costal 

 edge and at base, and by its rather small size, and the niunerous lines on the 

 tore wings, often represented hy dark dots. 



LoBOPHORA VERN-ATA Packard. Plate 8, fig. 13. 



EiipUhccia vertiala Pack., I'il'tli Rep. Peab. Ac.ad. Sc, 57, 187:5. 



3 i and 3 9. — Head wliitish, snow-white on edge of front, with a black 

 hair-line just below the anteiiiKV. Palpi white beneath, second joint black, 

 third white. Body and wings i)ale-whitish cinereous. Fore wings nmch 

 sharj)er at the'apex than in L. (DiguUlneata ; basal half of tore wings nearly 

 white, with a black, linear, basal line, cnrved and angulated outward strongly 

 on the median space, and sinuated inward on tlie subniedian interspace; a 

 black linear dot, often connecting with a black .streak on the median vein ; a 

 tew brownish and yellowish scales in the middle of the wing; veins irregu- 

 larlv spotted with white and black; an outer broadly sinuate line, -very 

 regularly incurved below tin; median vein, and, in front of that, going nearly 

 .straight to the costa, and touching the hind end of the discal spot; from this 

 line proceed linear black streaks along the veins, especially marked on the 

 median branches, which become interrupted toward the outer edge ; the Hue 

 is broadly and diffusely shaded with pale smoke-brown externally, darker 

 next th-e line ; beyond is a geminate, sinuous lino of brown scales, partially 

 obsolete below the median vein, and especially marked on the costa and in 

 the extradiscal space; a marginal row of geminate, black dots. Hind wings 

 smoky-white, with no markings; fringe white, with a smoky -brown line; 

 beneath pale-white; the fore wing with the outer curved line faintly marked, 

 and a little beyond i.ntervenular, black dots ; tringe pale-whitish. Hind wings 

 dusky. Fore legs dark, ringed with white. 



Length of body, 0.45; of fore wing, 0.60; expanse of wings, 1.30 inches. 



Montreal, Canada (Lyman); Brimswick, Me. (Packard): 15rookline, 

 Mass., April 28-May 29 (Simrtleff) ; New York (Grote): All)any, N. Y. 

 (Lintner) ; Philadelphia, Pa. (Ent. Soc). 



One of the earliest insects that ilies, app(;aring in April in Maine, beiore 

 the snow is off. It is easily known by its large; size, its white, acute wings, 

 with the distinct, linear, black, sinuate lines, the outer shaded diffusely with 

 light-brown, and l)y the white and black spots and streaks on tiie veins ;m<i 



