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are white ; the eyes are also margined narrowly with white. 

 Thoracic parts, beneath, clothed with longer, mixed griseous and 

 whitish hair. Abdomen, beneath, whitish, with longitudinal darker 

 streaks, laterally clothed with mixed griseous scales. Legs, 

 obscure aeneous ; femora with white scales inwardly. Antennae, 

 rather short and stout ; above, sub-annulate ; " club," blackish ; 

 beneath, more plainly annulate with yellowish white, the apices 

 tinged with dark fulvous. 



Wings, broad, somewhat longitudinally wrinkled ; above, lus- 

 trous olivaceous brown, with dark olivaceous longer scales. An- 

 terior wings, above, without markings, except two, unequal, pale 

 yellowish, obliquely placed maculations at the base of the inter- 

 spaces between the upper median nervules. Of these, the upper 

 is much the smaller, and is brought nearer the external margin 

 than the lower ; beneath this latter there are faint indications of 

 a third, paler spot, above the internal nervure. Base of the wing 

 and costal region, sparsely clothed with obscure aeneous-yellow 

 scales ; fringes, prominent, whitish, with a faint darker basal 

 shade. Posterior wings, immaculate, with longer, aeneous oliva- 

 ceous and yellowish hairs spreading over the disc and along inter- 

 nal margin, this latter as long as the abdomen, anal angle slightly 

 and rather broadly exserted ; fringes as on anterior wings. Be- 

 neath, the anterior wings are evenly covered with obscure aeneous 

 or golden yellow scales, which are very prominent along costa, 

 leaving the lower portion of the wing, above internal margin, 

 free ; the two yellow maculations of the upper surface are here 

 repeated. The posterior wings are immaculate, concolorous with 

 anterior pair, being almost everywhere evenly covered with 

 golden yellow scales, least prominently so befoi*e internal margin. 



Expanse, 1.50 inches. Length of body, 0.70 inches. 



Habitat. — Atlantic District. (Philadelphia !) 



A little larger than Hesperia pocohontas, ■Scudder, and 

 resembling this species in the shape of the wings. It will be 

 readily recognised by the whitish fringes and the simplicity of 

 its markings. 



