340 



known by the squarish hind wings, its deep-red color, and the very sinuous 

 outer Hue common to both wings, and by the basal two^thirds of both wings 

 being often blackish. 



AciDALiA iNDUCTATA Guonee. Plate 10, figs. 58, 59. 



Acidalia imhiclata Giuai. ! ! !, Phal., i, 494, IS.'i?. 



Addalia friijldaria Milschler, Wiener Eut. Mouats., 44, taf. 1(1, fig. 1, 1860. 



Acidalia inductata Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Miis., xxii, 721, ISfil (uot iiidi(cfala p. 792). 



Acidalia olahai-ia I'acli., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist.,xi, 43, 18G7. 



1(1 c? and 8 9. — Fore wings subacute at the tip; outer edge not bent; 

 hind wings slightly bent on the outer edge, but decidedly less so than in A. 

 A-lineata. Head with the front black ; verte.x, body^ and wings of a uniform 

 light grayish-ochrcous, being darker and more grayish than in A. enucleata. 

 Palpi blackish above and at tij) (sometimes entirely' grayish). Bolh wings 

 alike, and speckled with scattered fine black scales. Fore wings with three 

 well-marked, parallel, darker lines, and a fourth fine, wavy, paler, submarginal 

 line, all equidistant, the third sometimes darker than the two inner and decidedly 

 wavy ; a marginal row of black linear marks ; a distinct discal fine black dot, 

 just within the second (extradiscal) line; on the hind wings, the dot is just 

 without the same line. Hind wings with three darker lines; fringe on both 

 wings concolorous with tiie rest of the wing. Beneath, colored as above, 

 perhaps a little more dusky, but the lines are darker, more wavy, the second 

 common line much waved, the scallops acute, the marginal black points 

 distinct. Hind tiljiae .swollen, dilated, fringed on the edge; tar.si slightly 

 longer than the tibia\ 



L(Migth of body, i, 0.H8. 9, 0.30-0.38; fore wings, cf, 0.45, 9, 0.40- 

 0.45 ; expanse of wings, 0.80-O.V 5 incli. 



I am inclined to regard Moschler's Acidalia fiigidaria (my A. okuharla, 

 fig. 59) as a climatic variety of this species. About one specimen, from Hope- 

 dale, I have no doul)t. The two other better preserved specimens are mor-e 

 densely dusted with dark scales, and the lines are consequently less distinct, 

 and there are no discal dots to l)e seen on either side. It may be regarded 

 as a melanotic variety of the common and wide-spread A. inductata. 



Brunswick, Me., June 1(> to July 30; Salem, Mass. (Packard, Mus Peal). 

 Acad. Sc.) ; White Mountains, X. H., late in August (Scudder, Mus. Peab. 

 Acad. Sc.) ; Mount Washington, N. H., July 4 (Morrison) ; Brookline, iMass. 

 August 20 (Sluirtleft; Mus. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist.) ; Natick, Mass., July 17 



