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and the oiiltT border ul' both wings bcyon<l the coiiiiuon outer line l)eing 

 lawn-brown. Head like the body; orbits in IVont deep ochrcous. Anicunie 

 broadly pectinated, as nsiial. Fore wings with a basal, curved, dilluse, fawn- 

 lirown baud, the wings being ol'fcNi brown at base; au cxtradiscal one 

 common io both wings; discal dots not very distinct; wings obscurely 

 spotted with tawn-brown ; outer line fawn brown; the wing beyond is filled 

 up with the same color, with an oblique, apical, yellowish patch, shaded 

 below with blackish, and with scattered black specks on the brown portion.- 

 Hind wings like tiie anterior pair, except that there is no basal line; apex 

 very acute in the female. Outer edge of the fore wings of the male angulated 

 in the middle, but not scalloped, as it is in the female. Hind wings deeply 

 serrated in the male in front of the middle of the wing, there being three 

 acute ^)oints, while in the female the entire edge is scalloped, there being 

 six acute points. Beneath, the markings re-apjiear, the wings are more 

 heavily speckled, discal dots larger, black, more distinct; both common Ihies 

 present; outer border brown, but paler than al)ove, and with the apical 

 oljlifpie patch more distinct. Legs yellow, spotted with lilac-brown. 



Length of body, cT, 0.70-0.80, 9, 0.65-0.70 ; of fore wing, <?, 0.75-0.85, 

 9, 90-1.00; expanse of wings, 1.80-2.00 inches. 



It varies in the base of the fore wing being brown, or this brown portion 

 is represented simply l)y a diffuse curved line, and also in the degree of 

 irroration, and of the scalloping of the fore wings. 



Montreal, Canada (Lyman) ; Boston, Mass. (Soc. Nat. Hist., Sanborn, 

 Stratton, and Shurtlefi; the latter collecting it "July 10th") ; Albany, N. Y. 

 (Lintner and Meske) ; Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y. (Grote) ; New Jersey 

 (Sachs) ; Philadelphia, Pa (Grote and Ent. Soc.) ; Detroit, Mich. (Mus. 

 Comp. Zool.) ; Glencoe, Nebr. (Dodge). 



Desiderata. 



Endropia fiviarla Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xx, 250, I860.— 

 '■'Male. Dull cinereous fawn-color, minutely black-speckled; under side 

 2)aler and brighter. Palpi brown, porrect, broad, extending a little beyond 

 the head; tliird joint conical, minute. Antennse l)roadly pectinated, exce|)t 

 at the tips. Legs l)rown ; tarsi |)ale testaceous. Wings with two dark 

 ;en(!ous-brown linesaud with the Iringe of the same hue; a black discal point. 

 l*'(ii-e wings sultfidcate ; interior liue l)eni and uudulaling; a whitish ol)li(pie 



