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Expanse, 2, 1.00 inch, Length of body, 0.40 inch. 
Halitat.— Atlantic District. (Buttalo, N.Y. !) 
Cidaria atricolorata, n. s. 
(Plate 16, fig. 14, ¢ .) 
Lygris atricolorata, G. & R., MS. 
Lustroma atricolorata, “ 
Larentia atricolorata,  “ es 
6 and 2. Front, black, with pale olivaceous whitish scales mar- 
gining the eyes. Palpi, pale obscure olivaceous; second joint 
blackish outwardly. Head, behind, pale, with a black spot on ver- 
tex between the antennae. Thoracic disc with a median, very 
narrow, pale line. Tegulae, black, margined inwardly by pale lines 
meeting in front. Abdomen, above, black, with a median, longi- 
tudinal, very narrow, pale line; segments edged posteriorly with 
pale scales. Beneath, obscure dirty olivaceous, mixed with black- 
ish ; tarsi and tibiae, sub-annulate. 
Anterior wings, deep velvety black. Black at base; a narrow 
pale sub-basal line directed obliquely outwardly, angulated on inter- 
nal nervure, thence running inwardly to internal margin. Extra- 
basal space, black. Transverse anterior line, prominent, narrow, 
pale, preceded by a coincident fainter line of olivaceous atoms, 
directed outwardly obliquely to the interspace above internal ner- 
vure, at which place it stretches entirely across the black median 
space joining the transverse posterior line, and is here angulated, 
forming, below this point, a single deep and rounded excavation 
to internal margin. In some specimens this division of the median 
space, by the fusion of the two transverse median lines, is very 
prominently accomplished; the median space being thereby 
divided into a larger, sub-quadrate, black field, and a smaller, 
rounded space on internal margin. The transverse posterior 
line is followed by a linear olivaceous powdery line, promi- 
nently scolloped inferiorly on the interspaces. Sub-terminal space, 
p] 
black the; “veins” on extra-basal and sub-terminal spaces are 
longitudinally marked with olivaceous shades. A white, sub-ter- 
