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scales edged with brown. Fore wings with five well-marked lines, the 

 two basal approximate, parallel, and as well marked, as are all tiie others, on 

 the ODSta, Imth sligiitlv enivi'd, oblique, and disloealed on tiie sul)median 

 vein: diseal spol distinct, sublinear; the third line bends around outside it, 

 bnl verv near it, and neariv tonehes the llmrtli line just below the mtNlian 

 vein; sometimes tins is a broad, dark band (B. (tfinlrarid Gnen.); fonrfh line 

 a rcirularlv and dee|)lv scalloped liand; inclosing a white, similar line, l)lackish 

 within. l)rown ontsich' tlie white line, Ijcnt at right angles on the lirst median 

 v(!in, thence curving aronnd and ending beyond the middle of the inner edge; 

 tiic lil'th (and snbmarginalj is a dentate white line, parallel to the outer edge 

 of the wing, the scalloi)s tilled in with blackish, the broad black band inter- 

 rupted on the first median interspace; a marginal row of linear black Innules. 

 Hind wings with no basal band; just before the shmt, Innate, diseal dot, a 

 diffuse l)rown shade (in vai\ dendrar'tn broad and black and confused with the 

 median scalloped line); middle line l)lackish, scalloped, edged externally with 

 white, with a brown shade beyond; submarginal line as in the fore wings; 

 marginal lunules long and linear. Fringe concolorous willi the wings in both 

 pairs. Beneath, with a faint testaceous tinge. Costa of the fore wings 

 checkered with six black, square .spots. The second and fourth lines repro- 

 duced quite distinctly; the fourth al.so present on the hind wings A broad, 

 dusky, submarginal shade on the fore wings, growing more distinct on the 

 costa. Abdomen with two rows of black dorsal dots. Fore legs brown, 

 with paler rings. Hind legs pale. In the female, the lines are not so well 

 marked as in the male, but otherwise it does not ditier. 



Length (d' body, (^,0.80, 9,0.75; of fore wing, <^, ].10, 9, l.lf); expanse 

 of wings, 2.15 inches. 



Philadelphia, Pa. (Ent. Soc); Beaufort, N. C. (J. N.Trask); Knoxville, 

 Tenn. (Dr. Josiah Curtis, Coll. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist.); Coalbnrgh, W. Va., 

 May 10 (W. H. Edwards). 



This splendid moth may b(' known by its large size, the broadly pecti- 

 nate plumose antenn;^, the fine, Uf-arly straight lines on the fore wings, with 

 the fourth bent once at right angles. It is the largest species of the gronp 

 in the United States. 



Guenec's B. (iendiaria is evidently represented l)y one of my specimens 

 from North Carolina, in which the third and fourth lines are broad, confused, 



