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cal line and distinct series of terminal lunules blackish. Beneath fuscous powdery 
over gray, primaries darker, secondaries with a broad outer line and distinct discal 
spot. Head and thorax concolorous with primaries, patagie with black submarginal 
line. 
Expands 35 to 39 millimeters = 1.40 to 1.56 inches. 
HABITAT: Middie States to the Mississippi and Texas. New York, 
(Brooklyn) ; Pennsylvania (Philadelphia); Hlinois (Champaign) ; Cen- 
tral Missouri in April; Texas March 21. 
Four specimens are in the national collection (collection of C. V. R., 
and Belfrage, and Acc. 20395) from which the foregoing description 
was made. The species is wider winged and as a whole smaller than 
the preceding, with the same general style of maculation. It varies in 
ground color and in distinctness of maculatien, but most prominently 
perhaps in the s. t. line, which sometimes becomes a broad whitish shade. 
The large reniform is always distinctly paler, but not, in my experience, 
contrasting. 
The species is not common. 
Dicopis electilis Morr. 
1875. Morr., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 114. Dicopis. 
‘‘Expanse 37 millimetres. Length of body, 14 millimetres. 
Palpi short, scarcely exceeding the front. Antenne of the male “pyramidal 
toothed, (this is a term used by Lederer). Anterior tibiz with a long slender claw, 
otherwise unarmed. Thorax heavy and with coarse villosity; a distinct white band 
on each side of the tegule, which are black next to the wings. Abdomen short, dark 
and not untufted. Anterior wings cinereous gray, with the markings well defined; 
a very heavy black basal streak, including and extending beyond the claviform spot 
to the exterior line; ordinary spots concolorous, obsoletely encircled with black; 
interior line obsolete; exterior line distinct, black and narrow, with an indentation 
opposite the reniform spot, below which it is drawn in; subterminal line biackish, 
subobsolete. Posterior wings light gray; beneath gray, the posterior wings lighter, 
with discal dots. 
Hab. Easton, Pennsylvania. From Mr. W. H. Stultz.” 
‘“Distantly allied to Dicopis muralis Grt.; it differs in the shape of 
the wings, which are narrow and Cucullia-like, the presence of the 
basal streak extending to the exterior line, and the absence of the dis- 
tinct sub-anal streak of muralis.” 
There is a badly rubbed specimen, I believe in the Tepper colneirene 
marked “type” by Mr. Morrison, in which the basal dash is broad and 
suffused; but I did not otherwise compare it with the description. The 
statement that the abdomen is ‘not untufted” excludes the species 
from Hutolype to which the species commonly known as electilis is best 
referred. The character found in the longitudinal dash extending 
from base to the t. p. line is a strong one, and should render the spe- 
cies recognizable. The term ‘ pyramidal toothed” is used by Lederer 
for that form of antennz in which the lateral processes are small, conic, 
and less than serrate. This does not agree with the character of the 
group, and Morrison either did not have a male, or the species may 
