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VOL. III. BROOKLYN, APRIL, 1881. No. 12. 



A New Species of Notodonta. 

 By Edw. L. Graef. 

 Notodonta Simplaria, sp. nov. 



Male. Cinereous. Head and thorax blackish cinereous; tuft dark; 

 abdomen light cinereous. Antennae light brown. 



Primaries dark cinereous powdered with light grey especially marked 

 in apical region. Three transverse dentated lines of black cinereous edg- 

 ed with dirty white. A discal transverse dash of black, bordered with dir- 

 ty white. Fringes cinereous, darker at veins; a sub-basal line of black. 

 Tuft on inner margin slight and black. 



Secondaries light cinereous somewhat darker at exterior margin and 

 anal angle. A wavy band of lighter shade extending from costa to anal 

 angle. Discal mark slight. 



Beneath, light cinereous powdered with white, the posteriors lighter. 

 A slight transverse line on both wings, darker at the costa. Discal mark 

 on secondaries heavier than ab< >ve. 



In size N. simplaria is about die same as X. basistrieris but consider- 

 ably heavier and wings more angular. 



From one male taken in Catskill, X. Y. Aug. 1879. 



T\ pe in my collection. 



