452 Notes on the Lepidqptera of America. 



is here straightly limited. A faint, slightly tremulous, pale shade at 

 anal angle, continued obsoletely to apex and analogous to the sub- 

 terminal pale arcuate shade of the primaries, but not arcuate here, 

 its course being comparatively straight. 



Under surface, darker than upper, nearly concolorous on both 

 wings, evenly irrorate with dark scales. The minute black discal 

 dots are distinct on both wings. No markings, except a single 

 very faint pale trausverse common line. On the primaries, the 

 region along internal margin is pale, discolorous with the rest of 

 the wing, and analogous to the condition of the costal region of the 

 upper surface of secondaries. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs, pale fawn color, concolorous 

 with wings at base ; antennae, pectinate ; abdomen, very nearly as 

 long as internal margin of secondaries. 



Expanse, $ , 1-30 inch. Length of body, 0.50 inch. 



Hahitat. — Atlantic District. (Penn. !) 



The peculiar soft coloration, closely scaled wings, simple and 

 distinct markings, and, in particular, the pale transverse lines, 

 in conjunction with the blunted apices of the primaries, will 

 sufficiently distinguish this pretty species. 



Drepaaiodes varus, n. §. 



(Plate 15 A, fig. 2, £ .) 



2 . Pale reddish fawn color, sparsely and finely irrorate with 

 dark scales. Anterior wings somewhat elongate ; costa slightly 

 arched to apex, which latter is prominently produced and falcated; 

 external margin, oblique, sinuate, inwardly and roundedly excavate 

 immediately below apex, thence evenly outwardly rounded to 

 internal angle. Basal space, pale fawn color, irrorate with dark 

 scales and margined outwardly by the first transverse line, which 

 latter is arcuate, with an inward dentation below median nervure, 

 outwardly diffusedly shaded, most strongly marked on costa and 

 disc and of a dark brownish color. A black discal dot. The 

 median space is comparatively free from irrorations and of a some- 



