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almost entire!}' suffused with fuscous, the cilia pale pink ; the 

 underside pinkish rufous irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal spot and 

 siuuous postmedial line. 



Hah. .Canada {Novmmi). 1 d" ; U.S.A., East, Middle, and Central 

 States, 1 c? type, Massachusetts, Newton (Thaxter), 1 S type 

 deleta. Exp. 50 millim. 



2637. Epiglaea apiata. (Plate CYI. fig. 11.) 



Onhosia apiata, Grote, 6th Rep. Peab. Ac. Sci. p. 30 (1874) ; id. Bull. 

 Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 125, pi. 1. f. 8 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 222. 



c? . Head and thorax bright rufous ; antennfe with the shaft 

 white above to\\ards base ; abdomen pale rufous, pale at base and 

 fulvous at extremity. Fore wing rufous slightly irrorated with 

 l)urplish fuscous, the costal edge and inner margin bright rufous : 

 subbasal line fuscous, slightly angled outwards in cell and ending 

 at submedian fold ; antemedial line obliquely curved ; orbicular and 

 reniform large, defined by deep rufous, the former oblique elliptical, 

 the latter constricted at middle and extending to below cell ; a 

 diffused fuscous medial line, angled on median nervure and oblique 

 to\\ards costa and inner margin ; postmedial line slightly excurved 

 from below costa to vein 3, then incurved ; subterminal line whitish 

 defined by red-brown on inner side, slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and incurved below vein 2 ; a terminal series of slight dark 

 points ; cilia purplish pink at tips. Hind wing pale pink suffused 

 Avith fuscous except costal area and termen ; cilia pale pink ; tho 

 underside pale pink with slight discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial 

 line and traces of diffused subterminal line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Massachusetts, Newton {Thaxter), 1 S > New York, 

 Illinois, Chicago, E. Falmouth, 1 S type. Middle and Central States. 

 Exp. 42-40 millim. 



2638. Epiglaea contracta. (Plate CVI. fig. 12.) 



Mesogona contracta, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 169 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. 

 B. M. ii. p. 31, pi. xxxi. f. 1. 



Head and thorax rufous more or less strongly mixed with grey ; 

 antennae whitish at base ; abdomen rufous dorsally tinged with 

 brown, greyish at base. Fore wing rufous more or less strongly 

 irrorated with grey ; a whitish subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line whitish, very oblique from costa to 

 above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by 

 whitish, the former elliptical, the latter somewhat constricted at 

 middle ; a slightly curved rufous medial shade ; postmedial line 

 whitish, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 5 ; 

 subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved 

 below vein 3 ; a fine pale waved terminal line. Hind wing rufous 

 suffused and irrorated with dark brown ; some dark striae on apical 

 half of termen; cilia rufous; the underside pale slightly tinged 



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