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l)lu(;k above ; in Ihe female, .siiuple, dark granite-gray, ahuo.st. blackish. Front 

 of the head blackish : a white cross-line just below the aiitennoa ; vertex with 

 white scales. Pal|)i blackisli on the sides, white on the nnder side of the 

 basal joint, and at the tip of the second, and on the whole of the third. F(>re 

 wings thickl}' [)c|>|icii'd with black scales, so that the three lines are quite 

 indislinuuisliabic : inner line angidated broadly, just ludou the costa liroaii, 

 diirnse, and I'liilin^ in a (dear bla(d\ costal sjiot, as do the thi'ee outer liui'S. 

 Middle line sid)|)arallel, the angle o|)j)osite (he discal spot, \\ Inch consists of 

 an obscure ring ( represented in rul)l)ed specimens by a large discal oval dot). 

 ()uter line a little more than half-way from the inner line to the outer edge 

 ol'the wing; it is straighter than usual, curved qinte regularly o|)posite Ihe 

 discal ring, scalloped slightly on the lower half, the scallops acutely pointed 

 on the costal half (in worn specimens the line is re[)resenle(l l»y a series of 

 l)lack venular points). A sul)marginal line of acute scallops edged externally 

 with white (the w bite line broader in worn specimens). l^'rom eatdi point 

 of these scallops, a broad, black, transverse, siiort stri[)e connects with the 

 marginal row of narrow lunules. Fringe on both wings concolorous with the 

 wing, pnler externally. Hind wings as the anterior pair; basal line unusually 

 broad, diffuse, varying in distance from the discal ring. Extradiscal line 

 deeply scalloped: outer or third line margined with white; a row of faint 

 dashes proceeding outward from the points of the scallops and connecting 

 with the narrow marginal l)lack lunules. Wings beneath pale dull gray, with 

 line, transverse, short streaks. Four very large, black, rounded, oval, discal 

 spots. The third or outer line rejiroduced, being a row of bhick dots on tin; 

 l()re wing, situated half-way between the discal dot and tlu^ outer edge of 

 lh<3wiug; on the hind wings nearer the discal dot : a broad, conspicuous, 

 bla(d\, marginal shade on both wings; on the anterior j)air the band widens 

 toward the costa. Abdomen with no black line at base, with two rows of 

 large, black, dorsal spots, those on the second and third segments large and 

 conspicuous. Legs [)ale-gray : two anterior pairs of tarsi dull, with narrow, 

 paler rings. Alxlonu'U ben('atli concolorous with the under side of the 

 wings. 



Length of body, i. O.GO, 9, 0.65; of fore wing, S, 0.05-0.70, 9, 

 0.7.H; expanse of wings, 1.40-1,50 inches. 



New P>runs\\ick, opjjosite Calais, Me., August 19 (8hurtleff) ; Bruns- 

 wick, Me. (Packard) ; Boston, Mass. (Sanborn, Post. Soc. Kat. Hist., C. A. 



