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 173. L. major, sp. nov. $. The wings 

 have the same general appearance as in the 

 preceding species. The basal area of the 

 primaries is pale ferruginous defined out- 

 wardly by a curved brown line followed by a 

 broad transverse median band of darker 

 brown defined externally by a curved and 

 sinuate dark brown line, which is produced 

 upon the secondaries and is succeeded bv a 

 broad and somewhat diffuse brown line, 

 which in turn is followed by a sinuate series 

 of cinereous hastate spots, as in the preced- 

 ing species. The outer margin of the prim- 

 aries shades into lilacine. At the end of the 

 cell, there is a large and conspicuous round 

 silvery white spot. The secondaries have 

 the costa broadly dark brown with the outer 

 margin broadly paler brown. The base and 

 inner margin are pale stramineous. On the 

 underside, the primaries are reddish-fuscous 

 crossed by a broad transverse median band 

 and clouded with blackish at the apex and on 

 the outer margin. The secondaries are 

 reddish-brown heavily dusted with dark 

 brown scales and clouded with dark brown at 

 the base. A broad sinuate transverse 

 median band of dark reddish-brown bordered 

 externally and internally by blackish lines 

 crosses the wing from the lobe on the costa 

 to the first median nervule, and is succeeded 

 toward the outer margin by a series of five 

 or six blackish spots forming an irregular 

 curved series and margined externally by 

 pale gray. 



5 . The female resembles the male in the 

 general color of the wings, but lacks the 

 silvery spot upon the cell and all the mark- 

 ings are not only much more obscure, but 

 more intricate, the single transverse lines on 

 the primaries in this sex being all geminate 

 and darker, and the ' outer margin being 

 heavily clouded with blackish. The secon- 

 daries are traversed by a broad and diffuse 

 band of submarginal markings. The base 

 and the inner margin are obscure brown, as 

 the rest of the wing. On the under side, the 



primaries are uniformly obscure brown with 

 the outer margins and the apex heavily 

 clouded with blackish. The transverse 

 median band which appears in the male on 

 the under side of the primaries is wanting. 

 The under side of the secondaries is blotched 

 and marbled with fuliginous upon a dark 

 brown ground in a most intricate manner. 

 Expanse, $ 48 mm. $ 68 mm. 



Described from specimens taken in coitu. 



174. L. margine punctata, sp. nov. $. 

 Front, collar, and thorax pale fawn, inclined 

 to ochraceous ; upper side of abdomen, lower 

 side of thorax and abdomen and legs very 

 pale fawn. The wings are pale fawn, inclined 

 to cinereous. The primaries are ornamented 

 by a very pale ochraceous sub-basal curved 

 line defined outwardly and inwardly by very 

 narrow darker lines. This is followed by a 

 lunulate silvery spot at the end of the cell, 

 beyond which there is a straight transverse 

 ochraceous limbal line, running from bevond 

 the middle of the costa to the middle of the 

 inner margin and marked externally and 

 internally by very narrow brown lines. A 

 conspicuous series of blackish dots produced 

 outwardly between the first and second 

 median nervules runs from the apex to the 

 inner margin before the outer angle. The 

 secondaries are cinereous and the submar- 

 ginal series of blackish dots is continued 

 upon them. The wings on the under side 

 are pale cinereous, the markings of the upper 

 surface reappearing faintly upon them. The 

 fringes are separated from the body of the 

 wing by a very fine black line and are 

 obscurely checkered. Expanse, 35 mm. 



Gastropacha, Ochs. 



175. G. cinerascens, sp. nov. £. Allied 

 in the form of the wings to G. Gerstdckerii, 



Dew., but widely different. The hotly is pale 

 cinereous, as also the upper side of both 

 wings. There is a very irregular and obscure 

 sub-basal line followed by a trifid silvery 



