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broader white, and still wider brown transverse lines; a double set of 
each. Thorax with patagie gray, with brown powderings and brown 
margins. The dorsal tufts are very distinct, thick, and brown, con- 
tinued without break on the dorsum of the abdomen. Primaries gray, 
with a yellow-brown shading through the center of the wing. Basal 
and t. a. lines marked as short brown dashes on the costa, the latter 
with the long median tooth traceable. The median shade line is marked 
by a distinct brown line from the middle of costa, outwardly oblique 
over reniform to the middle of the cross vein of cell. Beyond that 
along costa, and to vein 4 on the outer margin, the wing is shaded with 
leather brown, darker at the margins.. T. p. line marked by a geminate 
black line crossing costal region, the intervening line pale gray. From 
this gray line a gray streak extends outwardly to outer margin between 
veins 6 and 7, and curved upward to the apex of the wing. The veins 
through this darker brown shade are pale marked, and there are four 
more or less distinct gray costal dots. A double blackish line with 
brown interspace extends along inner margin from near base to t. p. line. 
The t. p. line becomes obvious in the submedian interspace as a narrow 
pale line with brown defining margins. It is slightly curved to the sub- 
median vein, and thence makes a long inward bend to the hind margin, 
From this point a leather-brown shade extends obliquely to the outer 
margip, which it reaches on vein 3. Thence the shade extends nar- 
‘rowly along the margin, connecting with the costal shade. On veins 
3 and 4a white line cuts the fringes. Fringes with a pale yellow line 
at base, a blackish central line, and broader, dull gray outer shade. 
Orbicular reduced to two small black dots. Reniform indicated by from 
two to four dots, indicating the upper margin. Secondaries yellowish 
white at base, with a broad fuscous outer margin, narrower in the male. 
Veins dark marked. Fringes yellow at base, white tipped. Beneath 
smoky, primaries darker, paler toward base along inner margin. Sec- 
ondaries paler, whitish basally. 
Expands 45 to 49 millimetres=1.70 to 1.95 inches. 
Hapirat: Canada; New York, Sharon Springs (in July), Long 
Island; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Northern, Middle, and Eastern 
States. 
The species is a strongly marked one, and has been already suffi- 
ciently compared with others. It does not vary to any appreciable ex- 
tent, so far as I know. 
The harpes of the male are elongate, narrow, widening at tip, which 
is oblique, the upper angle produced, margin inwardly fringed with 
spinules. The clasper is quite close to base, and is a single, nearly 
straight, corneous process, quite slender, and terminating acutely. It 
exceeds the lateral margin of the harpe by one-third its own length. 
Both sexes are in the Museum collection. 
Dr. Lintner has described the larva on Solidago. 
