28B 



Skmiotiiisa ocklmnata Packiird. I'ImIc 10. Ilij. 11. 



3/<nni'm ocdlinata Giieii.!!!, Pbal. ii, 8r>, 18r>7. 



Walk., I.i.st I,ep. Hot. Br. Mils, xxiii, ff:\, 1H(!1. 

 Macnriit diiiiUcala rack., Kil'tli IJcii. Peab. Acad, Sci., 05, 187:5. 



3 (? ;iii(l 3 9. — This species jipinoiuhes the lyjiicjil species (if tlic 

 genus ill ha\iiiif llu^ fore wiiiirs faintly excavated helow the apex, and the 

 hind wings di,stin(ily an^nhiled. In its niarkini.'s and in the head hein<r cim- 

 colorou.s with t lie body, it apinoaches the S. calijo) nia/d. I'ale ash iin the 

 bod}^ and wiuiifs, the latter more or less dnsled with darker scales. Fore 

 wings crossed l)y three iiroad dusky hands, inclosinir dark venidar dots, those 

 in the outer hand being conspicuous: this outer hand is nsnall}' (not always) 

 doubled, the inner ending on the thiid costal spot, the outer more dill'uso 

 and endiuii: in a loiirth broader costal spot (this spot is sometiuH's larire and 

 ditrusc, sometimes smaller than the thii'd and (piite distinct). '^FIk' inaririnal 

 row of dots is less interrupted than usual, foiiniuir an almost continiKuis line. 

 Hind win^s nnirked as the anterior ])aii\ with two bi-oad i)an(ls, inclosing a 

 row of black spots, the outer iiand being doid)led. Beneath, whitisli-a.sh, 

 with thick i)rown specks, an oval large discal (h)t on primaries centered with 

 white, an inner line and an outer double line on both wings; the outer por- 

 tion of the d(nible brown line lieing wavy and three times as wide as the 

 inner, both wings marked the same, except that the discal dot on hind wings 

 is small and inconspicuous (in one specimen larger and more distinct). 



Length of body, J, (>.4-J-0,r)0, 9, 0.50; of fore wing, S. 50, 9, 0.50; 

 expanse of wings, 1.05 inches. 



London, Canada (Saunders); Maine (Packard); ]\Iassachusett.s (Sanborn); 

 Cambridge, Mass., Septenil)er 7 (Harris Coll.): West Farms, X. Y. (Angus); 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. (Graef); New Jersey (Sachs); St. r.onis, ]\[o., February 6 

 (Riley); Alabama (Grote);- Illinois (Cl(Mnens); Lawrence, Kansas (Snow); 

 Glencoe, Nebr. (G. ^I. Dodge). 



This not uncommon species diU'ers from all the other fmins by its pale 

 whitish-ash color, the head being scarcely darker than the body, by the lore 

 wings being almost straight below the apex, while the hind wings are very 

 slightly angulated, and by tlu' ontm- double line, so dark and conspicuous on 

 the under side of th(> win<rs, and also l)y the large oval discal ringlet. Tiie 

 single Alabama male is rather smaller than any of my other specimens, with 

 all the markings very di.stiuet. 



