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and purplish, darker than the wing. Secondaries a little paler than 

 primaries at base, outwardly more sprinkled with reddish scales; a 

 linear median shade continuous with the t. p. line of primaries. 

 Fringes long, purplish red, darker than the wing. Beneath, darker 

 than above, both wings largely stained with deep red; faint discal 

 marks and transverse shade lines on both wings. Fringes purple, dis- 

 colorous with the wings. 



Expanse, 43 mil. Length of hodij, 19 mil. 



Hahitat. — Atlantic District. 



Of this species, as yet of infrequent occurrence, we have apparently 

 both sexes ; if so, the bright testaceous antennae are equally pectinate 

 in either sex, since no appreciable diflFerence in this respect is oflfered 

 by the specimens before us. 



CUCULLIA, Ochs. 

 CucuUia convexipennis, n. s. (Plate 3, fig. 76 9 •) 



% 9 • — Cinereous, largely shaded with ochraceous and ferruginous. 

 Head with linear raised scales above, between the antennae; these 

 scales shaded with blackish at base so that three narrow black lines 

 may be said to cross the vertex. Collar cinereous, shaded with ochra- 

 ceous behind the head in front, with a median pale line relieved on 

 either side by a dark shade and with a distinct ferruginous border be- 

 hind. Tegulae cinereous edged inwardly with dark ferruginous. Ab- 

 domen pale dull ochraceous, with six prominent deep ferruginous tufts 

 above on the median line decreasing in size from the base downwardly 

 the two basal very heavy and close, the rest divided centrally and more 

 or less obviously. In the S the tufts are less prominent and the ter- 

 minal ones are hardly discernable. Anal tufts shaded with purplish. 

 Legs purplish cinereous, lineated outwardly narrowly with black. An- 

 terior and middle tibiae with the spreading scales centrally and out- 

 wardly clear cinereous neatly limited by narrow black lines. 



Primaries with the costa basally straight, rounded to the apices which 

 are somewhat depressed. External margin even, convexedly oblique, 

 somewiiat rounded, being slightly exerted medially. Anterior wings 

 above largely dull pale ochraceous, shaded centrally, from the base 

 outwardly, with cinereous. There are no traces of the ordinary spots 

 but superiorly on the discal cell are three black dots and two or three 

 more are hardly discernable beyond and above the outer discal point. 

 The costa, over the apical half, is marked with ferruginous and with 

 the inceptions of the outwardly oblique ferruginous shades. Two of 

 these ferruginous shades, arising on costa above the extremity of the 



