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and, not in line with the others, a small triangular spot 

 above the base of the first median venule. Hind wings 

 without spots. Fringes of fore wings dark brownish 

 gray, cut with black at the ends of the veins ; those of 

 the hind wings with the pale part paler ; those of the 

 inner margin black ; a black line edging both wings, and 

 shading in a little on the hind wings. 



Under side of fore wings brown, blackish inside the 

 mesial band, grayish along the hind margin, the apex 

 shaded with black and having a few whitish scales. The 

 spots of the mesial band are more confluent than above, 

 the others less distinct. 



Hind wings with the base dark, slightly grayish ; 

 through the middle an irregular broad black band, not 

 reaching either margin, and having a large pateh of brown 

 in it at the end of the cell, the black sprinkled with gray 

 scales. Outside this to the margin of the wing it is pure 

 white through the middle half; the apical portion, the 

 anal portion, and along the inner margin white more or 

 less tinged with brown ; the whole crossed by abbreviated 

 brown streaks. 



Body black, the under side of head and palpi slightly 

 sprinkled with gray. 



Massachusetts to the Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi 

 Valley. 



194. EUDAMUS CELLTTS, Bd. Lee. 



Expanse of wings from 1.9 to 2 inches. 



Upper surface dark blackish brown ; the fore wings 

 crossed by a broad continuous yellow band, beginning 

 near the middle of the costa and ending in a point near 

 the posterior angle, bending inward a little here towards 



