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ing the median space inferiorly. This line is scalloped, the outer line 

 faint. On the subterminal space the nervules are marked with black. 

 Subterminal line preceded by a light fuscous shade; the usual W-mark 

 much reduced. Terminal line black, interrupted. Fringes grayish. 

 Costal anteapical white dots in a fuscous shading. Hind wings rather 

 dark fuscous with whitish fringes. Collar and thorax whitish; tegulae 

 lined with black; collar with a blackish shade; abdomen pale fuscous. 

 Beneath pale ochery fuscous ; hind wings with a small incomplete discal 

 annulus and a discal streak; common line sinuous. Expanse 30 mil. 

 Lewis Co., N. Y., Mr. W. W. Hill, July 26. 



This is a very distinctly marked, clear colored species, 

 with something of the habit of Dianthoecia capsularis. I 

 name it after its discoverer. It is very different from II. 

 leucoscelis Grote, another white-colored species, being more 

 silky-winged and differing throughout in ornamentation. 



Polia medialis, n. s. 



<?. Eyes naked, with lashes; tibia? unarmed. A rather large species, 

 vividly marked, white, gray, black, and fuscous. Median space discolor- 

 ous, being of an even wood-brown or fuscous, shaded with gray on costa. 

 A basal black dash. Basal and terminal spaces gray, shaded with fuscous. 

 T. a. line black, its inner line faint, not very oblique, of the usual dentate 

 form. Claviformcohcolorous with the wood-brown median space, large, 

 reaching to the median shade, narrowly outlined with black, its lower 

 margin straight, running along the submedian fold. Orbicular large, 

 whitish or gray, oblique, with the renifonn black-ringed. Median shade 

 zigzig; renifonn connected with t. p. line by black shades along the veins 

 and discal fold, of the usual shape, large, whitish, but not outwardly ex- 

 cavate, being nearly straight on this side. T. p. line with its inner line 

 evident, dentate, black; its outer indistinct. The white spaces between 

 the component lines of all the three first transverse lines, in this species, 

 are very apparent. T. p. line running obliquely inwardly from the point 

 of its subcostal angle, without any inward bend submedially. Subterminal 

 line white, preceded by black points or streaks at the dentations. Termi- 

 nal space a little deeper shaded with fuscous opposite the cell, and again 

 at internal augle. A dentate terminal line cutting the fingers. Hind 

 wings blackish fuscous ; beneath grayish fuscous, with double exterior 

 shaded common lines, and broad discal mark on hind wings. Abdomen 

 fuscous, tufted basally. Thorax gray, with the tegulse laterally shaded 

 with fuscous, and with double liues on collar. Expanse 41 mil. Schenec- 

 tady, N. Y., September 13, Prof. Lintuer. 



This differs from the description of P. confragosa, Morr., 

 in the discolorous median space and in other particulars. 



