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outlined, the lines not distinct; a broken, slightly lunulate, termini | 
line; a pale line at base of fringes ; the latter fuscous gray. Seconda- 
ries smoky fuscous, paler at base, the veins marked. Beneath blackish, 
powdery ; secondaries a very little paler centrally. 
Expands 46 to 47 millimetres=1.84 to 1.88 inches. 
HABrIrar: Colorado (Bruce). 
Two female specimens are before me. They are entirely alike, and © 
differ from all the preceding in the deep blue-gray primaries, in which | 
the maculation is very indistinct, and the dark, smoky-fuscous seconda- | 
ries. So far as the markings are traceable, they are exactly as in the | 
preceding species. 
At first sight, this form resembles intermedia more nearly; but the 
character of the t. p. line at once refers it here. I have no doubt the 
sexual characters will be found to be very like those already described. 
The species is not unlike postera without the reddish shades. 
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Cucullia asteroides Gn. 
1852. Gn., Sp. Gen., Noct., m, 133, Cucullia. 
1857. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Lep. Het., x1, 656, Cucullia. 
1874. Lintn., Ent. Cont., m1, 139, 169, Cucullia. 
Head dark-brown, with pale and dark transverse lines. Collar pale 
bluish gray, blackish tipped; a distinct black line at base and two — 
vague transverse lines at middle. Patagiz pale-gray, sometimes a lit- 
tle yellowish. Dorsum blackish, as are also the small abdominal tufts. © 
Primaries a very even, smooth bluish gray; costal region with aluteous | 
shade extending through the cell, and intensified in the ordinary spots; 
the costa itself yet darker, sometimes blackish. A blackish and yellow- 
brown shadealong internal margin. T.a. line sometimes traceable across 
the costal space and in the submedian interspace; but more usually it 
is entirely wanting. T.p. line obvious only in the submedian interspace, 
where it forms a pale incurve, margined by blackish defining lines. This — 
is preceded by a small dusky or blackish patch, and followed by a_ 
yellow-brown shade to outer margin, emphasized above by a blackish- 
brown curved streak. A broken, black terminal line. Fringes gray, — 
with a yellowish line at base. A fine black longitudinal line extend- 
ing from base of wing to the tip of the long tooth of t.a.line. Some- 
times both line and streaks are obsolete. Ordinary spots large, pale, 
usually void, sometimes with two brownish spots in the orbicular; four 
in the reniform. There is no real defining line, the difference in shade 
between the macula and its surroundings being sharp enough for dis- 
tinction; but sometimes this is intensified by brown dots. Secondaries 
white, with a well-marked blackish outer border, narrower in the male. 
Beneath, primaries smoky, secondaries whitish, with powdery margins. 
Expands 44 to 51 millimetres=1.64 to 2.05 inches. 
HABITAT: Canada; New York, Kendall, Long Island, Albany May 
30 and June 6; New Jersey, New Brunswick, May 21; Washington, © 
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