:V2:y 



Si/nojtsis of the SjM'.rics. 



White, bands yellow I. ntliotjiliarUi. 



Will to, lijuul.s brown, aiiix tijiped with Iiiowii /. hrunncifanc'taln 



White, front of head brown, base and middle of \vini;s brown and ochreous /. lucala. 



ASTIIENA AI.HOtilLVAl.MA 1 'ilckaid. I'ljltr lO, fiiT. 41. 



Acidalia alboiiilraria Mornwinlll, I'roi-. IJiist. Soe. Xal. lli.st.,.\vi, 1!)1, 1-<71. 

 Corycia Iriseriala Pack., .Si.xtli Rep. Peab. Acad. Se., ,')(), IbT'l. 



4 (? and 4 9. — T'lirc wliilc Front oC head with a lew ocliieoiis .-scales. 

 AntcDun' wliitc, faintly tin;Lj;f(l with dark. Kye.-; l)hicU. Fon- winir.s .slightly 

 dusky beneatli on l)as(' of costa, with three rather l)road ociireous lines; tlie 

 inner a little wavy, regularly eiirved, llic two outer wavy, the middle witii 

 three .scallops pointing outward and the line about- twiet? as wide as the outer; 

 the lines are sometimes cquidi.staut ; sometimes the two outer are nearer to- 

 gether. Hind wings with two wavy lines, the inner very near the discal dot; 

 (Vinge white, discal tlots black. Beneath, pure white, w ith tiie two outer lines 

 indicated on the costa. Hind wings ]Hire white. 



Length of body, <?, O.oO, ?, 0.25: of fore wing. S, O.nC, 9, 0.40; 

 expanse of wings, 0.80 inch. 



White Mountains, N. H. : ]?everly, Mass., feeds on the elm (Burge.ss); 

 Andover, 3Ia.ss., July (Sant)orn, JIus. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist.) ; Amherst, Mass. 

 (Goodell); Mount Tom, Mass., July 2 (Morrison) ; Albany, N. Y. (Lintner); 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. (Graef ) ; West Farm.s, N. Y. (Angus). 



This pretty species may be at once recognized l)y the three sinuous, 

 broad, ociireous lines on the fore winijs, and two similar ones on the hind 



vvmgs. 



ASTHENA BRITNNEIFASCIATA, xp. nor. Plate It), fig. 42. 



4 9. — This species clo.sely resembles the eastern A. alhogilnaria. but is 

 rather larger, though the shape of the wings is the same. IJody and wings 

 snow-white. Antemur sj)otted with lilaekisli above; a pale-i)row ii transverse 

 line in li')nt of the anteiiiue. Fore wings with three irregular, more or less 

 interrupted, sinuous, pale-brown bands, arranged as in the preceding species. 

 Ape.x brownish. J3ene;itli white : the lines do not re-ai)pear, luil the costal 

 region is brownish. 



Length of body, 9, 0.2S ; of Ibie wings, 9, 0.45; expanse of wings, 

 0.90 Hich. 



Victoria, Vancouver Island, July (Crotch, Miis. Comp. Zool.). 



