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Cloantha ramosula, Guenée, Plate 2, fig. 16, primary wing. 
Guenée’s figure of this species is not recognisable. In the description this 
species is compared with the type of the genus, the European C. perspicillaris. I 
believe I describe and illustrate here Guenée’s ramosula, although the description 
in the Spécies Général is not full and appears to me contradictory in slight 
points. Cinereous, shaded with ochrey brown. Costal edge cinereous. Below 
the s. c. nervure the wing is whitish ashen from the base over the cell and, 
beyond the reniform, this paler shade extends, outwardly obliquely margined, 
to apex. Orbicular extremely indistinct, indicated by a fragmentary obliquely 
placed black ringlet. Reniform prominent, large, indistinctly closed outwardly, 
with an interior brown shade and with its annulus very distinct and black 
inwardly and inferiorly where it descends below vein 8 and is here surrounded 
by the diffuse brown shade which extends largely over the median nervules. 
This black marginal line of the reniform does not enclose the spot but, fol- 
lowed by an inner pale shade, runs upwardly to vein 5, beyond the cell, and is 
continued straightly outwardly, giving the spot an uncinate appearance or 
that of a mark of interrogation. T. p. line nearly lost, indicated by little points, 
visible against the cinereous costal shading. A black streak below m. nervure 
at the base of the wing. A series of black interspaceal subterminal dashes 
and whitish dentated shades border the veins terminally, becoming pointed at 
the fringes which they interrupt with pale dots. Beneath, pale, powdered with 
carneous, with faint discal dots and diffuse but little darker borders in the male, 
hardly expressed on the paler hind wing. No distinct common subterminal 
line. Hind wings above testaceous fuscous, with broad diffuse darker borders 
and reduced dot. Thorax cinereous, with an attenuate median and an upper 
marginal line on the collar, Guenée says: “ Une seule ligne noire, fine, sur le 
collier.” 
Hxpanse, 32 to 35 m.m. Habitat, New York; Pennsylvania. 
The sexes do not, perhaps, differ, but there is a variation in the 
distinctness of the marginal shades on the fore wings. 
The species described below are to be distinguished at once from 
our only one hitherto noticed, by the shape of the reniform spot 
which is, so to speak, reversed in appearance, has not the outward 
inferior prolongation but an upward and inward V-shaped exten- 
sion. Beneath there is less carneous shading, no or little trace of 
bordering bands, but a single continued finely undulate subterminal 
line crosses both pair of wings and is emphasized on the veins by 
darker dots. 
