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Family E??XOMIDAE. 



Eurymene excavaria {nov. sp.). 

 Expanse, 31 m. m. Length of body, 11 m. m. 



2. — Head and collar violet-black, the latter edged with ferruginous ; bodr 

 above oclireous ; terminal segment of the abdomen ferruginous, anus violet 

 black ; body beneath and legs uniform ferruginous. Anterior wings with the 

 apex pointed ; a very strongly pronounced angle between the second and third 

 median nervules (much more so than in any species of the genus known to 

 me); outer margin between the angle and the apex concave; below the angle 

 the margin is very deeply indented ; inner angle slightly rounded ; anterior 

 wings with the ground color pale ochreous, almost hidden except at the base 

 and apex by numerous transverse, brown striae ; a narrow violet-black costal 

 border, continuous with the collar, lined interiorly with red, extending one 

 third of the distance between the base and apex ; a very thick dark reddish- 

 brown line, commencing on the inner margin two-thirds of the distance from 

 the base to the inner angle, and continuing perpendicularly until a short dis- 

 tance before the fourth median nervule ; at this point it changes its course 

 about thirty degrees to the right, extending in this direction until within 1.5 

 m. m. of the costal margin, where it stops abruptly ; bordered internally with 

 brighter red, externally with violet, which extends to the inner angle ; the 

 indentation below the angle, in the outer margin, bordered with ferruginous ; 

 a narrow reddish line at the base of the fringe. Posterior wings above ochre- 

 ous ; an obtuse angle at the termination of the third median rervule, between 

 which and the anal angle, the margin is concave and bordered with dark 

 brown ; the anal angle slightly violaceous ; a ferruginous line commencing on 

 the abdominal margin (where it is almost black) a short distance above the 

 anal angle, extending about three quarters of the distance across the wings, 

 gradually becoming fainter and lost in the ground color ; posterior wings free 

 from striae except near the anal angle. Wings beneath, ochreous; pale near 

 the base ; profusely striated with ferruginous, especially on the posteriors ; 

 anterior wings with a broad ferruginous line, slightly violaceous, prominent on 

 the costal margin, corresponding to the upper part of the line above ; this line 

 is obliterated before the inner margin ; a broad whitish border along the inner 

 margin, free from markings ; posterior wings with a broad violet border, 

 bounded interiorly by a ferruginous line composed of accumulated striae. 



Hah., New York. Collection of H. K. Morrison. 



This handsome species can be easily distinguished from phlogo- 

 saria Guenee, and alcoolaria Guenee, by the different number and 

 arrangement of the lines on the anteriors above; from fervidaria 

 Herr.-Scli. {emargataria, Guen.), it differs by the strongly marked 

 indentation and prominent angle of the outer margin of the 

 anterior wings. There are also other minor points of difference 

 between the species, which can be seen from the descriptions. 



