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dusky. Primaries dark bluish ash-gray with a fuscous admixture, all 
the markings obscure. In some specimens the median lines are trace- 
_ able as follows: t. a. line as a broad, fuscous oblique shade over costa, 
_ outwardly toothed in the cell and there reduced to a fine black line, 
_ outwardly angulate again in the submedian interspace forming the 
usual long tooth, then again toothed below vein 1. The usual black 
basal line is evident in most specimens. The median shade is indicated 
by a broad, oblique fuscous streak across the reniform from costa. T. 
p- line single, fuscous, evenly outcurved over cell, then evenly oblique 
inward into the submedian interspace, where it forms an acute angle 
and is outcurved over vein 1. The ordinary spots are obsolete, in one 
specimen only the outer and inferior margin blackish-lined. Usually 
all the above-described maculation is incomplete and sometimes en- 
| tirely wanting, save for the oblique dusky shades in costal region and 
' the fragment of the t. p. line in the submedian interspace. A broken, 
_black terminal line, sometimes sending in a small sagittate black dash 
in the second and third interspace, and often entirely wanting. Sec- 
_ondaries yellowish fuscous, somewhat paler at base, darker in the fe- 
male. Beneath smoky on primaries, whitish powdery on secondaries; 
amore or less obvious discal lunule, sometimes a mere line, more usu- 
ally a distinct ovate macula. 
Expands 45 to 50 millimetres =1.80 to 2 inches. 
HABITAT: Canada; New York, Kendall, Sharon, August 8 to 16; 
Michigan; New Hampshire, Franconia; New Jersey; Illinois; Washing- 
ton, D.C.; Northern, Eastern, Middle, and Central States. 
This is the most common Eastern species of the second series, and 
seems as abundant as asteroides. It is very readily distinguishable 
from all others by the very dark gray primaries, in which usually all 
the markings save the oblique costal streaks are obscure, and by the 
yellow fuscous secondaries, which on the under side have a discal spot. 
!There is little variation, only a relative distinctness or obscurity of 
i maculation. 
The harpes of male. are long, narrow, slightly constricted centrally, 
ithe tip oblique, somewhat curved, inwardly fringed with spinules, 
lupper angle acute. The clasper is a slender, upright corneous process 
) with acute tip. 
Dr. Lintner has described the larva on Mulgedium leucophewm. 
a 
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Cucullia cinderella sp. nov. 
Head fuscuos gray with pale and darker transverse lines. Collar 
‘deep ash gray, with an inferior black and a median double gray line. 
Patagiz and dorsum dark gray, concolorous. Primaries deep bluish 
gray, immaculate save for a narrow linear basal streak and a broken 
black terminal line. Secondaries smoky, basally paler. Beneath, pri- 
maries smoky; secondaries white, powdery, and with a faint discal lun- 
nule. 
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