15 c? aiifl IT) 9. — Wings acutely angled in tlie middle of the outer edge, 

 iuid fore wings very falcate; Iiind wings extending farther than usual behind 

 the tip of the abdomen. Fawn-color, sometimes frosted over and varying to 

 ochreous; body concolorous with the wings, which are more or less striated. 

 Head with the front chocolate-brown; vertex white. Fore wings with the 

 inner line usually present, curved, consisting of two large scallops meeting on 

 the median vein and pointing inward, the upper scallop touching the discal 

 dot, or the line is straight below the dot and parallel with the outer 

 line; the line is sometimes either absent, or represented by a few scattered 

 patches, and when well developed is dark fawn-l)rown, with or witliout a 

 frosty edging on the inside. Outer line straight, more or less distinctly 

 angled near the apex, and l)eiiding at right angles on the costa ; sometimes 

 the angle is much rounded, brown or blaek-l)rown, simple, or edged exter- 

 nally with gray. From the angle extends a more or less distinct slightly- 

 curved series of irregular diffuse dark spots to the inner angle ; this is usually 

 represented by a faint shade. Discal dots alike in l)olh wings, snudl, con- 

 sisting of erect bhick scales. Hind wings with tlie single hue in the middle 

 of the wing, .straight, with tlie outer series of difTuse spots as on tlie fore 

 wings. Fringe a little deeper in hue than the wings, varying in hue between 

 an ochreous or fawn coloi-. Beneath, a little paler than above ; line not pres- 

 ent, or very faint, distinctly dusted with transver.>'e strigse. Legs strigated. 



Length of body, <f , 0.72-0.S5, 9, 0.G5 ; of fore wing, <?, 0.^)0-1.00, 

 9, 0.95-1.00; expanse of wings, 2.00-2.10 inches. 



Montreal, Canada (Lyman) ; Brunswick, Me. (Packard) ; Massachusetts 

 (Sanborn, Emerlon, Bost. Soc. Nat, Hist, Peab. Acad. 8c.) ; West Farm-s 

 N. Y. (Angus) ; Albany, N. Y. (Linfner and Meske) ; New Jersey (Sachs) ; 

 Philadelphia (Enl. Soc); Georgia (Grote) ; Detroit, Mich. (Mus. Comp. 

 Zool.) ; Lawrence, Kans. (Snow) ; Missouri (Riley). 



This is a very variable .species, and in the above description we have 

 noted the extremes. It may be distinguished by the very falcate wing.s, the 

 obtusely-angled outer line on the fore wings, the sul)marginal shade or row 

 of spots on both wings. The ochreous variety, which I take to be goniata, 

 would easily be considered a separate species from transversata Guen. ; but 

 they are intermediate forms ; so one of the Georgia males is dark, uniformly 

 fawn-colored, with the margin of the wings beyond the outer line darker, and 

 wonld be at first thought specifically distinct. 



