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Cloantha raniosula, Gueme, Plate 3, fig. IG, primary wing. 



Gueu^e's figure of tliis species is not recognisable. In tlie description this 

 species is compared witli tlie type of the genus, the European C pernpicillaris. I 

 believe I describe and illustrate here Guen^e's ramosula,&\i\).o\xg\i the description 

 in the Species General is not full and appears to me contradictory in slight 

 points. Cinereous, shaded with ochrey brown. Costal edge cinereous. Below 

 the s. c. nervure the wing is whitish ashen from the base over the cell and, 

 beyond the reniform, this paler shade extends, outwardly obliquely margined, 

 to apex. Orbicular extremely indistinct, indicated by a fragmentary obliquely 

 placed black ringlet. Reniform prominent, large, indistinctly closed outwardly, 

 with an interior brown shade and with its annulus very distinct and black 

 inwardly and inferiorly where it descends below vein 3 and is here surrounded 

 by the diflTuse brown shade which extends largely over the median nervules. 

 This black marginal line of the reniform does not enclose the spot but, fol- 

 lowed by an inner pale shade, runs upwardly to vein 5, beyond the cell, and is 

 continued straightly outwardly, giving the spot an uncinate appearance or 

 that of a mark of interrogation. T. p. line nearly lost, indicated by little points, 

 visible against the cinereous costal shading. A black streak below m. nervure 

 at the base of the wing. A series of black interspaceal subterminal dashes 

 and whitish dentated shades border the veins terminally, becoming pointed at 

 the fringes which they interrupt with pale dots. Beneath, pale, powdered with 

 carneous, with faint discal dots and diifuse but little darker borders iu the male, 

 hardly expressed on the paler hind wing. No distinct common subterminal 

 line. Hind winga above testaceous fuscous, with broad diffuse darker borders 

 and reduced dot. Thorax cinereous, with an attenuate median and an upper 

 marginal line on the collar. Guenee says : " Une seule ligne noire, fine, sur le 

 collier." 



Mvpanse, 32 to 35 m. m. Habitat, Xew York; Pennsylvania. 



The sexes do not, perhaps, differ, but there is a variation in the 

 distinctness of the marginal shades on the fore wings. 



The species described below are to be distinguished at once from 

 our only one hitherto noticed, by the shape of the reniform spot 

 which is, so to speak, reversed in appearance, has not the outward 

 inferior prolongation but an upward and iuAvard V-shaped exten- 

 sion. Beneath there is less carneous shading, no or little trace of 

 bordering bands, but a single continued finely undulate subterminal 

 line crosses both pair of wings and is emphasized on the veins by 

 darker dots. 



