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silvery scales, somewhat violet-hued, on its internal margin, 

 the patch extending nearly across the wing ; another smaller 

 and similar, nearly round one behind it, on the inner margin, 

 and another small one on the costa, behind the produced 

 portion, with a white costal streak above it in the cilia. All 

 these patches are somewhat black-margined. Near the base 

 of the wing are three short, silvery streaks, one nearly on the 

 disk, one near the fold beneath it, and an oblique one above 

 it, near the costa. The cilia of the extreme apex is silvery- 

 white, black-margined above, with a violet-silvery scale in 

 the middle of the wing before the tip. The inner margin, at 

 the base of the wing, is silvery. Hind-wings dark brown ; 

 cilia somewhat paler.* 



The ornamentation of this insect is very elegant. Taken 

 on wing in June, July. 



EUDARCIA. 



Head and face rough. Without ocelli. Eyes small, 

 hemispherical, quite prominent, with a naked space above ? 

 Labial palpi short, rather smooth, and separated ; the third 

 joint somewhat less thick than the second, and nearly as 

 long. Maxillary palpi long, folded and five or six-jointed. 

 Antennae, basal joint moderately long, approximated on the 

 front, simple and full as long as the anterior wings. Tongue 

 naked and very short, scarcely as long as the labial palpi, and 

 not reaching beyond the front. 



Fore-wings with the subcostal nervure attenuated at the 



* In the 9th volume of " The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer," p. 31, 

 I have noticed, in reference to this species, that it "is intermediate between 

 C. Scribaiella and the Drtiryella group;" and that the essential characters 

 are,— " Anterior wings dark greenish-brown, with three short longitudinal 

 silvery streaks near the base (these represent the fascia we find in Eximia and 

 Schmidiella), with a reddish-orange fascia, edged with silvery-violet, in the 

 middle (this fascia is considerably broadest on the costa, its hinder margin 

 being formed by two silvery-violet spots, which are by no means opposite) ; 

 at the apex is a short silvery-white scale, preceded by a violet-silvery spot, 

 with which it is not connected." 



The exp. al. of C. gemmiferella is 5 lines. H. T. S. 



