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lighter gray ; inner line hlack or blackish tending to become discontinuous ; outer 

 line punctiform.niore or less incomplete; as a whole the line is broadly outcurved 

 over the cell, then inwardly oblique to the internal vein where it approaches 

 nearest to the t. a. line. S. t. line somewhat diffuse, smoky, only a little irregu- 

 lar, more or less emphasized by venular dots or shades which sometimes extend 

 toward the outer margin, darkening the terminal shade. A black lunate termi- 

 nal line. Fringes with a smoky, lunate interline, the margin a little scalloped. 

 Orbicular absorbed in the basal space, the outline of the outer margin forming a 

 little irregularity in the t. a. line. Reniform large, broad, kidney shaped, more 

 or less completely outlined by black scales, within which is a paler annulus ; the 

 spot as a whole of the ground color but more or less marked with smoky brown. 

 Claviform short, broad, outlined by black scales, suffused by a blackish or brown 

 shade which crosses the median space above a narrow hlack connecting line. 

 The internal vein is white through the median space and cuts hoth median lines, 

 which diverge below it. forming at this point the narrowest portion of the space. 

 Secondaries smoky, glossy, with a vague outer line. Beneath powdery gray; 

 primaries tending to smoky ; secondaries with an exterior smoky line and discal 

 dot. Expands .88 inch = 22 mm. 



Hab.—New Windsor, N. Y., July 9, 29 (Miss. Emily L. Mor- 

 ton) ; Schenectady, N. Y. (Lintner). 



This species occurs throughout the North Atlantic States, but is 

 not common. It is the species that I have called hausta in my own 

 and other collections for years. 



My original specimen came to me years ago in such a way that I 

 believed the determination has been made by Mr. Grote, and a 

 hasty reading of the original description which compared the spe 

 cies to modica did not raise any doubts as to the correctness of the 

 name. More recently Mr. Merrick sent me from New Brighton, 

 Pa., -pecimens that seemed closely allied and familiar in appear- 

 ance; but I could not then recognize the form and sent it back 

 unnamed. In the U. S. Nat. Mus., I again saw the two forms asso- 

 ciated in such a way as to bring out the contrasts between them and 

 to make it certain that two species were at hand. 



Comparing Mr. Grote's original description carefully, developed 

 the fact that Mr. Merrick's examples are the true hausta, while the 

 hausta of my collection seems to be an unnamed form. It can be 

 readily recognized by the broad creamy gray basal space, the 

 V shaped darker median space, and the black line extending across 

 the s. t. space in the submedian interspace. In hausta the base of 

 the wing is brown and everything beyond the middle is creamy 

 gray. Seen apart, the two species give a very similar impression ; 

 seen in comparison their difference is obvious. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XXIX. JUNE. 1903 



