454 Notes on the Lepidoptera of America. 



clear ochreous brownish. A small black discal dot, surrounded by 

 a pale purplish shade, situate approximate to the t. a. line. Trans- 

 verse posterior line, broad, distinct, dark ochreous brown, with an 

 internal, narrow, whitish line, followed by a blackish shade. This 

 internal narrow whitish line might be regarded as the t. p. line 

 itself and described as preceded by a broad, distinct, even, dark 

 ochreous brown shade band and followed by a blackish shade. The 

 t. p. line, as usual, is dentatedly projected below costa, on which the 

 whitish shade is a little diffuse. Apices blackish. Outside of the 

 t. p. line, the external space is thickly irrorate and washed with a 

 pale purplish shade. A whitish, irregular, sub-terminal shade 

 band, very narrow at apices, and everywhere diffuse and indistinct. 

 External margin, below the falcated apices, narrowly lined with 

 bright ochreous ferruginous. The very short fringe is whitish. 

 External margin, shaped much as in D. varus ; apices falcated, 

 below which the margin is evenly rounded to internal angle. 

 Secondaries, resembling primaries in appearance and coloration. 

 At base, ochreous brownish, transversely irrorate. A median line, 

 corresponding to the t. p. line of anterior wings and similarly 

 colored and constituted, but wanting the exterior blackish shade. 

 Outside of the median line, the wide terminal space is washed with 

 an indistinct purplish shade and confusedly transversely shaded and 

 irrorate. An indistinct, nearly obsolete, pale subterminal shade. 

 External margin, from immediately below apices to just before 

 anal angle, bright ochreous ferruginous, as on primaries. Under 

 surface, resembling upper, washed with purplish and evenly and 

 thickly irrorate with black. A common narrow whitish line cross- 

 ing both wings and analogous to the t. p. and median lines of the 

 upper surface. Terminal whitish shades; the external margin is 

 edged with bright ochreous ferruginous as on upper surface. 



Expanse, 2 , 1-35 inch. Length of body, 0.45 inch. 



Habitat. — Atlantic District. (West Virginia !) 



This species may be distinguished from D. varns, by the 

 darker shaded and mottled wings, and especially by the whitish 

 common line of the under surface. 



