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of pale and fuscous dentate marks ; the veins of terminal area 

 streaked with black, and with a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing semiliy aline white, the costa and cilia at apex slightly 

 tinged with brown. 



2 . Fore wing suffused with fuscous, leaving the costal area to 

 end of cell and the terminal area brown. 



Hab. U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, Georgia, 1 d" , Kansas, 

 3 d, 2 2, Texas, 1 c? , 5 § , Florida, St. John's Bluff (Douhledai/), 

 1 c? > 1 5 > California ; Bermuda, Challenger Coll., 2 2 ; Bahamas, 

 Nassau {BonhoU), 1 ? ; St. Domingo {Tweedie}, 1 c? , 2 $ , type 

 decernens ; Mexico, Jalapa {Triijillo), -1 d" , 2 $ , type f latea 

 in Coll. Druce, Mexico city (Godman), 1 c5' , Patycuaro (Godman), 

 1 2 ) Misantla {Godman), 1 2 '-, ^^- Honduras, Belize, 1 cT , 2 $ ; 

 Guatemala {Rodriguez), 1 c? , 1 $ ; Costa IIica, Candelaria Mts, 

 {Underwood), 3 S ^ Irazu {Rogers), 1 d ; Panama, Chiriqui {Cham- 

 pion), 1 (^ , Godman-Salvin Coll.; Colombia; Venezuela, 1 c? ; 

 Brazil, Pernarabuco {Ridley), 1 d" , 1 2 ■> l^io Janeiro, 1 S ; Peru, 

 lima, 2 J , 5 5 , Huancha {J. J. W(d]x:er), 1 $ ; Chile {Edynonds), 

 2^51 2 ; Argentina, Goya (Perrins), 1 2 • ^^q^- 3S-4;4 millim. 



£f/(J. French, Can. Eiit. xiv. p. 1297. 



Diam. -03 inch, globular, white, base broad, with vertical ridges, 

 of which 12 reaching apex alternate Avith double the number of 

 different lengths, the ridg^^s conijected by slender bai's. 



Larva. (Bedescribed.) Head 3*5 millim., pale brown, pale reticu- 

 late, vertical band dark brown, strongly angled at top of clypeus, 

 which is brown filled. Cervical shield well corniHed, shining brown, 

 cut by a pale dorsal line and traces of a subdorsal one. Dorsal space 

 broadly pale, faintly brown, clouded on the centres of the segments, 

 heaviest next the obscure, pale, dorsal line. Skin rather thin, 

 smooth. Lateral space brown with faint pale subdorsal and lateral 

 lines. Substigraatal band broad, distinctly but not brightly or very 

 uniformly white-pigmented, the subvertical area becoming trans- 

 lucent. Tubercles dark brown, rather large and distinctly coruificd ; 

 anal plate brown. 



A general feeder. — H. G. D. 



628. Feltia canities. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 17.) 



Peridroiua canities, Grote, ined. 



Head and thorax pale red-brown mixed with white, the scales 

 pencilled with white ; pectus mostly w^hite ; abdomen white, dorsally 

 tinged with pale red-brown. Pore wing pale reddish brown, irro- 

 rated with fuscous, especially towards costa ; an indistinct double, 

 waved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, waved, 

 antemedial line acutely dentate inwards on vein 1 ; claviform a 

 short fuscous streak ; orbicular and reniform small with fuscous 

 centres, and whitish annuli defined by black, the former round ; 

 the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4 and incurved in 

 submedian fold ; the subterniinal line represented by a series of 



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