555 



Teteacis /EGROtata Guent'e. Plate 13, fig. 65. 



Telracii wgrolata Gucii., rii:il., i. Ill, IK^T. 



Walk., List Lc-p. Il.-t. Hr. Mhs., xx, ITIi, 18G0. 

 Chm-odes agrotata Pack., Pioc. Host. Sin;. Nat. Hist., xiii, HP'.>, 1871. 



8 <f and 2 9. — Tlw wiiii^s arc less falcate than in 7'. f/ux(i/i(if(i,uud the 

 median angle of both wings is slight, hut, with a slight tooth between tiie apc.x 

 and central large tooth, while tiie wiiig.s are without the usual well-defined 

 angiilated line on their outer third, and the male antemnv are simple. Jiody and 

 wings ol a uniform pale light tawii-color ; wings almost white beneath. Head 

 with thiclv hairs on the vertex, the scales being longer than usual; just l)elow 

 the antemue, a dark-l)rowii l)and ; below a little paler than the vertex. Palpi 

 tipped with brown. Antenn;i> concolorous with the rest of the body. Wings 

 densely speckled with brown ; an inner, curved, very slightly dusky line, with 

 five or six black venular dots, and a similar line going from just beyond the 

 middle of the hinder edge, following a sinuous course to the costa near the 

 apex, witli a black dot on each venule. A few minute black dots on the base 

 of the fi-inge, which is concolorous with the rest of the wing. A slight discal 

 dot on both wings, that on the fore wings small but diffuse, that on the hind 

 wings a minute black dot. Hind wings the same as the anterior pair, the 

 speckles being arranged in a faint band, straight, crossing the middle of the 

 wing ; an outer curved row of black dots parallel to the outer edge. Beneath, 

 dull white ; costa and antennae, half of the fore wings, together with the 

 costa and the outer half of the hind wings sprinkled with black .scales, and 

 a row of dots parallel to the outer edge of the wing near the edge; discal 

 dots as above, but larger and much more distinct. Fore legs dusky in front; 

 tarsi of hind and middle legs dusky; otherwise white. 



Length of body, J, ().H5, 9, O.SO ; of tore wing, J, 0.83, 9, 0.i)5 ; 

 expanse of wings. 1.7U-2.00 inches. 



Sanzalito, Cal. (Behrens); Mendocino City, San Mateo, Cal. (A. Agassiz, 

 Mus. Comp. Zool.). 



This common species varies in the tint of the wings, and the ouler line 

 of dots varies in distinctness and degree ol' sinuosity. In one specimen, the 

 outer band on the fore wings divides into two; the iiiiiei-. opposite tiie discal 

 dot, bein<r a l)n)a(l, wavv band, sitnati'd half-wav lu'twecii the dot- and the 

 outer band. 



Several specimens received from ;\Ir. Behrens show that this species 



