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area in and below the cell, the median nervure on it streaked with 
pink, bounded by the black antemedial line, which arises at discal ~ 
fold, oblique below cell and angled inwards at vein 1 almost to 
base ; medial line almost obsolete on costal half, angled inwards 
below costa and outwards at vein 6, then oblique to lower angle of 
cell and double and incurved to inner margin; some minute white 
points on apical part of costa; subterminal white streaks on veins 
8, 7, 6, and black streaks below veins 7, 6,5, 4; the postmedial line 
arising from vein 6 towards termen, double, the inner line black, the 
outer “brown, very strongly incurved and defined ‘on outer side by 
whitish ; a faint waved whitish subterminal line from vein 5 to 
tornus, angled inwards below vein 3 and with some whitish before it 
between veins 4, 3; some white at apex and a black-brown terminal 
line except at apex; cilia brown, white towards apex and with a 
brown line near base. Hind wing white suffused with brown, the 
costal area whiter; a fiery red terminal line; cilia white at tips; the 
underside white irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused 
with purplish red, a dark discoidal lunule, medial line excurved 
beyond the cell, and crenulate postmedial and terminal lines. 
Hab. Canapa; U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, and Central States, 
Massachusetts, Beverly (Burg), 1 ¢,3 9, New York (Doubleday), 
1 Q type (Packard), 1 g, Evans Center (Grote),2 g,19. Hap. 
24-23 millim. 
6340. Pectes semicircularis, n. sp. (Plate CLX XVI. fig. 32.) 
Q. Head and thorax grey mixed with dark reddish brown; 
tegula with some dark brown before tips which are whitish ; pectus 
whitish ; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the base whitish with 
brown bar, the ventral surface whitish with subventral series of 
small brown spots. Fore wing purplish grey suffused with fuscous 
brown; a white patch below base of cell, its extremity extending 
just into the cell, bounded by the black antemedial line which arises 
at median nervure and is angled inwards at vein 1 almost to base, 
an olive-green band beyond it extending on inner margin to base ; 
medial line indistinct, double, oblique, from vein 6 to inner margin ; 
postmedial line double, almost obsolete, pinkish and oblique from 
costa to vein 6 near termen, then strong black-brown and very 
strongly incurved ; subterminal line very indistinct, greyish, defined 
on inner side below vein 5 by slight blackish marks, excurved below 
costa, incurved and minutely waved below vein 43; a series of black 
strie just before termen and a fine terminal line. Hind wing fus- 
cous brown, the cilia whitish at tips; the underside grey suffused 
with brown, a dark discoidal bar, minutely waved medial line 
excurved beyond the ceil, dentate postmedial line, and terminal 
series of lunules. 
Hab, Txinipap, Cuparo (Kaye), 2 9 type. Exp, 20-24 millim. 
