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ochreous. Abdomen gray, with a purplish hue on middle segment, anal tuft 

 •ochreous. Legs pale gray, annulated with dark brown. 



Fore wing: — Cinereous or yellowish gray, with a blackish spot covering basal 

 area and another on costa at middle. The gray ground color is stained with pale 

 yellowish ochreous and faintly tinged with reddish brown on apical third and below 

 costal spot. The basal spot is outwardly rounded extending to inner fourth at 

 middle, slightly indicated at lower median vein, it and the costal spot are very dark 

 brown, on which are superimposed a few reddish brown scales. The costal spot 

 is about the same size as basal spot, about one fourth length of wing on costa, 

 extends down to middle of wing. On the dorsum are six or seven browni.sh fuscous 

 spots, a faint strigulse of fuscous ascends toward costa from each, those in the middle 

 of the wing, running into the costal spot are most distinct, the middle one forming 

 a prolongation of the lower apex of the spot and is edged with yellowish. In the 

 apical part of wing is a long sinuate line, broadest at costa, extending down to below 

 middle of wing and ending at termen, composed of fuscous and reddish brown scales. 

 Cilia yellowish gray, interrupted by a few fuscous scales. Underside smoky brown, 

 light cinereous on costa beneath the paler spaces of upper surface. Hind wing 

 above dark gray, cilia a shade paler; beneath pale gray with brown vertical reticu- 

 lations, cilia paler. 



Described from about forty specimens from the following localities: 

 Half-way place, Black Mountains, N. Car., June 29; Chinchilla, Pa., 

 June 26 (A. E. Lister); Hazleton, Pa., July 12 to 28 (W. G. Dietz); Wyo- 

 ming Co., Pa., 2300 elevation (Lister and Kearfott); Warren, Mass., July 

 12, (Kearfott); Center Harbor, N. H., No. 18.387 (H. G. Dyar); Ottawa, 

 Can., July 10 (C. H. Young). Named in honor of Mrs. Edna L. Beuten- 

 miiller, who not only makes beautiful drawings of insects, but collected 

 most of the larvae, the notes of which appear in this paper. 



In Wyoming Co., Pa., I found the species fairly abundant, flying close 

 to the ground and usually alighting on twigs or the blackened stumps of 

 a burnt over spruce forest; between the showers on a rainy day the majority 

 of the specimens were found resting on these stumps. At Warren, Mass., 

 they were found in a small woods of spruce and hardwood trees, flying close 

 to the ground and usually alighting on twigs or on the ground. 



The venation agrees with Meyrick's figure of Phalonia, excepting 3 

 and 4 of hind wings are connate, hence the species will later be transferred 

 to a different genus. 



Phalonia hoSmanana sp. nov. 

 Plate VIII, Fig. 4. 



Expanse 12 nun. 



Head and thorax blackish brown mixed with paler brown scales. Palpi pale 

 brown with a few darker brown scales on outside of second joint and on third joint. 

 Antenna fusciaus, paler at base. Abdomen blackish brown, anal tuft ochreous. 

 I^egs cream colored dusted with brown. 



