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EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT 



TALllACRITA VERXATA. 



Crossed by three jaoro^ed, dark lines, 

 sometimes obsolete except on the subme- 

 dian and median veins, and on the costa 

 where they are always distinct and divide 

 the vfiug into four subequal parts. No 

 white costal Fpot. (Fig. 9, a.) ' 



A pale, jagged, subterminal band, cor- 

 responding in some degree to the outer- 

 most band \\\ poynetaria, but running out 

 to apex, where it is always sharply re- 

 lieved posteriorly by a dark mark, and 

 often the whole length by dusky shad- 

 ings, 



Hind-ioings with the costal vein bifur- 

 cating at, or but little beyond, the discal, 

 and with the independent or vein 5 faint. 

 (Fig. 7, b.) 



Color pale-ash or very light gray, with 

 a dusky discal dot. 



No white band, and rarely any margin- 

 al dots. 



Under surface with a more or less dis- 

 tinct dusky spot on each wing, the front 

 wing having in addition a dusky line 

 along median vein and spot on costa to- 

 ward apex. No pale bands. 



Female — Antemim generally with but 

 few more than 30 joints, the longest about 

 thrice as long as wide, faintly constricted 

 in middle, and pubescent. (Fig. 9, c.) 



Body and legs pubescent, clothed with 

 whitish and brown, or black, dentate 

 scales or hairs; general coloration not 

 uniform. Crest of prothorax and meso- 

 thorax black. A black stripe along the 

 middle of the back of the abdomen, often 

 interrupted on the second to seventh 

 joints, with a whitish patch each side of 

 its front end, (Fig. 9, b. d.) 



Abdomen tapering rather acutely be- 

 hind, and with an exsertile, two-jointed, 

 conspicuous ovipositor. (Fig. 9, e.) 



ANISOPTERYX POMETARIA. 



Crossed by two less jagged, whitish 

 bands, the outermost suddenly bending 

 inward near costa, where it forms a pale, 

 quadrate spot, relieved by a darker shad- 

 ing of the wing around it : the bands 

 sometimes so obsolete as to leave only 

 this pale spot ; but more often reheved on 

 the sides toward each other by a dark 

 shade, most persistent on the veins. (Fig. 

 10, a ) 



No such band. 



Hmd-wlngs with the costal vein bifur- 

 cating considerably beyond the discal, 

 which is ftrongly elbowed; vein 5 quite 

 strong. (Fig. 8, b.) 



Grayish-brown, with a faint blackish 

 discal dot. 



In most specimens a curved white band 

 runs across the wing, and the veins inside 

 this band and on hind border are gen- 

 erally dotted. 



Under surface with a dusky discal spot 

 on each wing, and with the outer pale 

 band on upper surface of front-wings as 

 well as that of the hind-wings showing 

 distinctly, the former relieved by a dusky 

 spot inside at costa. 



Female — Antennce with over 50 joints, 

 the longest hardly longer than broad ;. 

 uniform in diameter ; without pubescence. 

 (Fig. 10, c.) 



Body and legs smooth, clothed with glis- 

 tening brown and white truncate scales 

 intermixed, giving it an appearance of 

 uniform, shiny, dark ash-gray: somewhat 

 paler beneath. (Fig. 10, b. d.) 



Abdomen tapering rather bluntly be- 

 hind, without exsertile ovipositor. 



