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Fon; wings cnis.sod by tlircc distiiicl hiowii lines; inner lineuillia sharp 

 outward curve just Ix'low the costa, and heh)W sh^lillv sinnate; ;i liiinter 

 median line slightly sinnate, and not reachini^ ;is far as the conspicnons linear 

 discal dot. The outer line is hroad, lirni, very slightly sinuate; "beyond it, tlie 

 wing is chocolate-brown, with a row of large, brown, iutcrvenular spots n<'ar 

 the line; beyond, a narrow, faint, whitish line, widrming triangularly on the 

 apex. Fringe on both wings chocolate-brown. Hind wings nuirked as lore 

 wings, though there are but two lines, lieneath, the wings pearly-whitish, 

 checkered with the same lines as above, and with mimerous striga\ some 

 ochreous tints mixed with (he brown ; a brown band outside ot" the third line, 

 becoming ochreous on the hind wings; a marginal i)rown line, fringe l)rown 

 near the apex, becoming white behind ami on hind wings, and ti])ped with 

 brown and narrowly' marked with brown at the ends of the venides. 



Length of body, <^,0.37. 9, ().:^,.5 ; of fm-e wings, c^, 0.44-0.48, 9, 0.46; 

 expanse of wings, 0.90-1.00 inch. 



Maine, June 9 (Packard); Massachusetts (Sanborn, Stratton); AUiany, 

 N. Y., May 25 (Lintner) ; New Jersey (Sachs) ; Texas, June 3 (Belfrage) ; 

 Head of Plum Creek, Colorado, June 29 (Lieut. Carpenter, Hayden's Survey). 



Tiie larger of ten eastern and Texan specimens nu-asures 0.48 inch on 

 the lore wing, while the single Colorado example measures 0.53 inch. This 

 l)eautiful and widely-diffused species may at once be recognized by the choc- 

 olate-brown lines and markings, the checkered under side of the wings, the 

 two rows of abdominal dots, and the heavily-])ectinated antenna;. 



Subfamily CABERINJ^ Gueiiee (emend.). 



Subtribe Cabvrites Diipoucbel, Cat. Lep. Eur., diJS, 1844. 



Caberidi Gnen. in Duponcbol's Cat. Lep. Eur., 268, 1844. 

 Subfamily Zcrenidi Stepb. (in part), Cat. Brit. Lep., '211, 18.")0. 

 Family Caheridii; Guen., Phal., ii, 43, 1857. 



Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxiii, ftV.), 1S(>I. 



Head square in front and quite full or longer than broad, not very full 

 or Hat, and narrowing considerably on the iront edge of the clypeal region. 

 Male antennai either simple or pectinated. Palpi short, slender, subacute, 

 either not projecting beyond the front, or but slightly so. Fore wings short 

 and broad, not subfalcate; costal edge straight or sometimes well arched; outer 

 edge entire, full. Hind wings well rounded, not angulated, or l)ul slightly so. 

 Venation: usually no sultcostal cell (one is present, however, 'wrdui ik rxi and 



