Notes on the Lepidoptera of America. 23 
clear ochreous brownish. A small black discal dot, surrounded by 
a pale purplish shade, situate approximate to the t. a. line. Trans- 
verse posterior line, broad, distinct, dark ochreous brown, with an 
internal, narrow, whitish line, followed by a blackish shade. This 
internal narrow whitish line might be regarded as the t. p. line 
itself and described as preceded by a broad, distinct, even, dark 
ochreous brown shade band and followed by a blackish shade. The 
t. p. line, as usual, is dentatedly projected below costa, on which the 
whitish shade is a little diffuse. Apices blackish. Outside of the 
t. p. line, the external space is thickly irrorate and washed with a 
pale purplish shade. A whitish, irregular, sub-terminal shade 
band, very narrow at apices, and everywhere diffuse and indistinct. 
External margin, below the faleated apices, narrowly lined with 
bright ochreous ferruginous. The very short fringe is whitish. 
External margin, shaped much as in D. varus; apices falcated, 
below which the margin is evenly rounded to internal angle. 
Secondaries, resembling primaries in appearance and coloration. 
At base, ochreous brownish, transversely irrorate. A median line, 
corresponding to the t. p. line of anterior wings and similarly 
colored and constituted, but wanting the exterior blackish shade. 
Outside of the median line, the wide terminal space is washed with 
an indistinct purplish shade and confusedly transversely shaded and 
irrorate. An indistinct, nearly obsolete, pale subterminal shade. 
External margin, from immediately below apices to just before 
anal angle, bright ochreous ferruginous, as on primaries. Under 
surface, resembling upper, washed with purplish and evenly and 
thickly irrorate with black. A common narrow whitish line cross- 
ing both wings and analogous to the t. p. and median lines of the 
upper surface. Terminal whitish shades; the external margin is 
edged with bright ochreous ferrugincus as on upper surface. 
Expanse, 2, 1.35 inch. Length of body, 0.45 inch. 
Habitat.—Atlantie District. (West Virginia !) 
This species may be distinguished from D. varus, by the 
darker shaded and mottled wings, and especially by the whitish 
common line of the under surface. 
