JunL--Sept. 1S94. 



PSYCHE. 



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brown. The upper side of the abdomen 

 pale brown, with a blacli tuft of hairs erected 

 on the median line back of the metathorax. 

 The under side of the thorax and abdomen 

 is pale fuscous. The tibiae and the tarsi of 

 the anterior pair of leijs are dark broun 

 ringed with paler brown. The other legs 

 are concolorous with the tarsi ringed with 

 lighter brown. The primaries on the upper 

 side are vinous-brown, marked with dark 

 spots and lines. Just beyond the base is a 

 U-shaped black mark with its open end 

 toward the base, followed b_v geminate curved 

 sub-basal lines, which become heavier on 

 the inner margin. Bevond these is a trans- 

 verse median line, almost parallel to the 

 sub-basal line, very heavy and dark. At the 

 end of the cell there is an obscure reniform 

 spot surmounted on the side of the base by 

 a minute comina-shaped black dash. Beyond 

 this is an irregular and very fine limbal 

 line abruptly retracted toward the costa 

 opposite the reniform. This is succeeded 

 by a very fine and obscure submarginal line, 

 or series of submarginal points, wliich fuse 

 with a large subtriangular dark brown spot 

 situated on the costa before the apex, and 

 with a small brown spot near the outer angle. 

 There are two subquadrate black spots just 

 below the apex, the uppermost of which 

 coalesces with a fine black line, running 

 from the apex diagonally for a short distance 

 into the wing. The margin is marked by a 

 very fine pale line accentuated by minute 

 transverse dashes on the interspaces. The 

 fringes are brown obscurely checkered with 

 darker brown at tlie ends of the nervules. 

 The secondaries are dark fuscous, paler on 

 the costa which at its base is inclined to 

 stramineous. There are some incomplete 

 transverse bands of dark brown running 

 from the inner margin toward the costa, 

 which none of them reach. The outer 

 margin is clouded with very dark brown in 

 the region of the median nervules. The 

 margin is defined as in tlie primaries. The 

 fringes are more distinctly checkered than 



in the primaries. On the under side, both 

 wings are obscure pale fuscous, darker 

 toward their outer margins. The hairy fold 

 situated below the costa near the base is dark 

 fuscous. The primaries and the secondaries 

 are crossed by a dark limbal and a much 

 broader dark submarginal band, both of 

 which are defined outwardly by obscure pale 

 fuscous lines or bands. In addition, the 

 secondaries have a dark transverse median 

 band. 



5. The female is like the male, but the 

 antennae are simple. Expanse, $ and $, 

 34 mm. 



ADDENDA. 

 ACONTIIDAE. 



AcoNTiA, Hiibn. 

 115. A. briola, sp. nov. J. Front and 

 collar pale brown. Patagia, upper side of 

 thorax and abdomen whitish ; lower side of 

 thorax and abdomen white with the anal 

 extremity of the abdomen tipped on the 

 under side with black. Legs obscure fuscous, 

 with the anterior margins marked with dark 

 brown. The primaries on the upper surface 

 are chalky-white with a slight purplish reflec- 

 tion for two-thirds of the distance from the 

 base. The costa is marked with dark brown, 

 running inwardly at the end of the cell, 

 where this dark brown tract is interrupted 

 by a whitish reniform spot. The apical 

 third of the wing is brown crossed by darker 

 lines marked on the apex by a large chalky- 

 white kidne^'-shaped spot, below which are 

 a few ochreous markings. The fringes, 

 which are dark brown, are regularly check- 

 ered with pale ochreous on the interspaces. 

 The secondaries on the upper side are pale 

 fuscous. On the under side, both wings are 

 fuscous, the region of the cell and the discal 

 ar^a of the primaries being darker. The 

 white subapical spot of the primaries reap- 

 pears on the lower side and there are some 

 paler obscure maculations on the outer 

 margin near its middle. Expanse, 36 mm. 



