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‘outwardly, forming a broad, not defined outer marginal band. Beneath 
blackish, powdery, pale at base of secondaries. 
_ Expands 42 to 47 millimetres=1.68 to 1.88 inches. 
Hasrrar: New York, Sharon Springs, July 6 and 8, Newburg; 
‘Pennsylvania 
This is the smallest in average expanse of the three closely allied 
\ a species. Three of the specimens before me are from the U.S. 
' National Museum (collection of O. Meske and C. V. Riley), one, from 
“Mn. Neumoegen and the other from Dr. Lintner. This is also almost | 
‘certainly confused with asteroides, from which it differs in the even 
‘ gray color, the costa hardly darker and without reddish or brown 
shades. The secondaries are also much darker, with a broader outer 
‘border; but not so dark asin postera, from which the present species 
\differs widely in maculation of primaries. 
' The sexual characters are essentially as in asteroides, but there is 
‘eonsiderable difference in detail, better shown by the figure. The 
‘elasper in the specimen from which the drawing was made was turned 
|| the wrong way, and bearing this in mind its resemblance to asteroides 
is marked. 
| Cucullia laetifica Lintn. 
1875. Lintn., in Grote’s Check list, 24, Cucullia. 
1878. Lintn., Ent. Cont. tv, 89, Cucullia. 
cita Grt. 
1883. Grt., Papilio 1, 75 Cucullia. 
hartmanni French. 
1888. French, Can. Ent., xx, 69 Cucullia. 
Head dusky gray, with pale gray and black transverse lines; palpi 
‘paler in front. Collar ash-gray with a basal black, and a median 
|idusky transverse line. Patagie gray, dorsum dark brown, as are the 
‘(very small dorsal tufts of the abdomen. Primaries very pale whitish 
| (gray in the male, distinctly darker, ashen gray in the female. The 
costal region is very little darker, the median lines sometimes indi- 
cated by darker geminate dots. T. p. line marked in the submedian 
‘interspace by a narrow black line, sending inward a long narrow 
sinus, rounded at tip. A narrow black line runs centrally through 
ithis sinus, broadening to a curved black streak beyond it. This 
streak reaches the outer margin below vein 2, and in the interspaces 
‘between 2 and 3, and 3 and 4, are usually two black sagittate marks 
| basing on the outer margin. Preceding the end of the sinus in the 
|isubmedian interspace is an indefinite white patch, representing the 
claviform spot. This is usually distinct in the male; but very indefi- 
| nite and sometimes wanting in the female. A more or less evident 
| black streak along inner margin near base. A fine black longitudinal 
line at base reaching the end of the long tooth of t.a. line, which is 
rather feebly marked. Ordinary spots obsolete, the inferior margin 
of reniform sometimes vaguely outlined. In the male there is usually 
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