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full and rouiidtHi than tlif males. Tlic \viiiu;s arc lliickly iliisicd uiih while 

 scales, luinh'rinir (he darls l)ands and chcckciiii-x tiic iViuiii' wilh while, u itii 

 distinct l)iit diil'nsc discal dots on Ijotli winir.'s. Heneath, inueli white is 

 mixed with the ochreous tint, and the three bands are very distinct. 



Length of I>()dy, c?, 0.42, 9. O.;];") : of fore win<f, S, ().5S, 9,l».r)4: 

 expanse of wings, 1.18 inches. 



Brunswick, Me., frequently taken late in .Inne and early in July in open 

 pine-woods, flying in company with Eujidonia xotatnria (Packard, Mus. Peab. 

 Acad. Sc.) ; Portland, Me. (Morse, Mus. Peab. Acad. .Sc.) ; Boston, Mass. 

 (Minot) ; Salem, Mass. (Pickering, Harris Coll. Mus. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist ) ; 

 Albany, N. Y., May 21 to Jun(! 7 (Lintner) ; Missouri (Kiley). 



This moth may l)e known by the dark ochreous-i)rown fore wings, tiie 

 ochreous hind wings, with the three darker l)an(ls, as well as by tlii; i)ashv 

 plumose antenna-. It dilfers from the Euiopean Emahirga atomaria in the 

 wings being less mottled witli white or ochreous: the females of the two 

 species are much alike, but ours diifers in the heavier outer band and lighter 

 inner band on the hind wings, the outer submargiual band wanting beneath 

 in E. atomaria. The sexes ditier in this genus much more than in Fidonla. 

 The females are much lighter, with white speckles and distincter. bands than 

 the males, and with quite differently-shaped hind wings. The specimen from 

 Missouri is much whiter than usual in the .spaces between the l)ro\vn lines, 

 l)oth al)()ve and beneath. The larva of th(> European E. atomaria feeds on 

 the Lotus anil Centaurea. 



DASYFIDONIA,* gm. nor. Plate 2, tig. 13. 



Body unusually short and thick; abdomen short, not extending to the inuf-r 

 angle of the hind wings. Head rather lidl and convex in front. Palpi Ioihj-, 

 extending about one-third their length Iteyond the front, with very lout' 

 dependent hairs; third joint rather lonir, ol)tuse at ti|). Antenna' in male 

 with broad pectinations, not plumose, the branches n»»t spreading as in 

 Ematurga; in female simple. Fore wings nnich as in Ematurga, but the 

 costa is more sinuous: outer edge slightly lient. much as in Ematiirsa. 

 Hind wings much as in Ematurga. \m\ the apex is inclined to be a little 

 more rounded, and the outer edge more bent and more deeply scalloped. 

 The venation differs from that oi' Ematurga in there being six instead of five 



* dnnir. hairv ; Fidonin. 

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