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size as tlio second, aiul llie line ot Ncniilar dots is niiieli curved. I lie snl»- 

 apical patcii Ijroad, siinaiisii. A inaii;inal row ol dark dots. Friniic a little 

 darker than the w ini,', and sliijhtlv checkered with w hite slripes. Hind winjis 

 liiiel}' mottled with ochicons scales, not arrauijed in lines; discal dot distinct. 

 Beueafli whitish, tini^ed decidedly with oidu'cons, and transversely siriifaled 

 witli pale-hrown on anterior wings, and more mottled than .strigated on the 

 hind wings. Friiigt; more dislinctly and broadly (dieckered than al)ovc, and 

 marginal row ol" spots more distinct than ai)t)ve. i^egs yellowish, thickly 

 spotted with lirown. 



Length of l)ody, i , O.o4, 9, 0.47; of lore wing, J, O.GU, ?, 0.51); ex- 

 panse of wings, l.'JO inches. 



Amherst, Mass. (Peabody); Hastings, X. Y. (Grote) ; Northern Illinois 

 (Clemens); London, Canada (W. Saunders); West Farms, N. Y. (Angus); 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. (Graef). 



Not oidy by its white color, but by its oi)tnse fin-e wings and the want 

 of the three scallops in the outer edge of the hind wings, may this species be 

 readily distinguished from its imported European representative T. tcai-aria. 



Thamxonoma sulphukakia Packard. Plate 9, fig. 62. 



Eupiatheria suljiluireii Pack., Fiftb Ri'p. Pc:il>. Acad. Se., 77, 1>7:!. 



2 i and 2 9. — Uniformly s\dphureous; palpi large, stout, porrect, reach- 

 ing far beyond the head ; concolorous w ith the head and rest of body. ^lale 

 antennae pectinated, thickly ringed witii brown. Wings sulphur-yellow, with 

 three triangular costal brown spots, a large brown discal dot, and a similar 

 spot on the outer third of (he inncn- margin; a few transverse striga', but no 

 lines as usually seen in this genus. On the hind wings, two rows of large 

 difFuse spots, both beyond the discal dot, the inner of wliich only reaches to 

 the middle of the wing, while the outer is more regular, following the line 

 of the outer edge of the wing. Frinije long, brown, on the hind wings inter- 

 rupted with ochreous; at base on l)oth wings a marginal row of dark dots. 

 Beneath much more strigated than al)ove. Veins very distinct, being deeper 

 ochreous than on tlu; interspaces. 



Length of body, 0.3H; of fore wing, 0.45; expanse of wings, 1.1.') inches. 



Brookline, Mass. (Shurtleff) ; Natick, Mass. (Stratton); ]3rooklyn, N. Y. 

 (Graef) ; Victoria, Vancouver's Island, July (Crotch). 



Easily known l)y its pale sulphur-yellow hues, the usual lines on the fore 



