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IJnm.swick, Mo. (Packard, Miis. Peal). Acad Sc.) ; " Mass., early in duly" 

 (Morrison); West Farms, N. Y. (Aiiifiis, Mns. Peah. Acad. So.) ; Pliiladcl- 

 phia. Pa. (Ainer. Eut,. Soc.) : Maryland (.>[iis. Comp. Zofil.) ; New Jersey 

 (Saclis). 



Tliis remarkable (oriii may he recoirnized hy the lari^e and very dislincl 

 angle in the hind wings and the tliree black lines consisting of black dofs 

 on the outer fourUi of tlio fore \vin<rs, which are continiied on tln^ liind winsrs 

 and by the row of black dots along the abdomen. 



AciDALlA ENUCLEATA Guencc. Plafe lO, tig. (J7. Larva, I'late 13, fig. 26; 



pupa, lig. 2(irt. 



Acidalia ciiiulcata Cueu., Pbal., i, 505, plate VJ, fijj. :!, 18.57. 



Walk.!, Lop. Hot. Br. Mns., xxii, 7-->:!, l^Cl. ■■ 



20 (f and 5 9. — Of large size. Fore wings pointed at <lie apex, dis- 

 tinctly angulated on the outer edge. Hind wings square, the angle more 

 distinct than usual; outer edge slightly scalloped. Body and wings whitish- 

 ochreon.s. Head whitish on the vertex, black-brown in front; palpi blackish 

 above; tip blackish. Fore wings with three faint-ocbreous lines, the inner 

 oblicpie, faint, and parallel with the middle line, the latter bent at nearly 

 right angles t)elow the cosla, the outer or extradiscal line beni at ri<rht angles 

 below the costa, and below much waved. Belov^' the subcostal l)end,tiiis line 

 blends with a black patch, growing wider toward the inner angle of the wing. 

 Beyond is a ditfuse, wavy, black line; when the dark patch is wanting, there 

 are two wavy suhmarginal lines. Hind wings with three lines, the inner one 

 ocbreous, nearly touching the discal dot, running inside of it, the distance 

 between tl^e two outer lines equal to the distance from tin; discal <lot (o the 

 inner of the two lines, the two outer lines usually i)lackisii instead of ochre- 

 ous, and discolored as on the tc)re wings. A marginal row of black dots on 

 both wings; fringe on lioth wings concolorous with the restof the wings. 

 Beneath, whitish; costa ocbreous; discal dots on both pairs of wings; a 

 single dark, wavy, extradiscal line on the fore wings ; no lines on posterior 

 pair; marginal dots distinct. Hind tibia; of male very broad, dilated, no 

 spurs; tarsi but little longer than the tibia; are broad. 



Length of body, <?, 0.52, 9, 0.50; of tore wing, J, 0.55, 9, O.CiO; 

 expanse of wings, L15-L20 inches. 



Brunswick, Me., July 10, and later in the month (Packard, Mus. Peab 



