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represented by a double series of black points on the veins with 

 whitish points between them, bent outwards below costa and 

 oblique below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line absent; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; 

 cilia blackish mixed with grey, intersected with white at base and 

 with slight black line at middle. Hind wing white, the terminal 



Fig. 126. — Plati/senta viclens, c? . \. 



area slightly tinged with brown ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia 

 white mixed with fuscous at tips ; the underside with the costal 

 area suffused with rufous, the veins of terminal half irrorated with 

 black to vein 2, a blackish discoidal striga and terminal series of black 

 points from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. U.S.A., 1 c? type atrielUata, Massachusetts, Distr. of 

 Columbia, Illinois, Florida ( Doubleday), 2 S type and type indigens, 

 Colorado. Exp. 34-36 millim. 



Larva. Dull green with a number of longitudinal white lines, the 

 stigmatal line stronger ; ventral claspers deep pink ; head green 

 with two brown streaks. Food-plant: 'i Solidago. 



4144. Platysenta albipuncta. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 29.) 



Tlatysenta alhipiincta. Smith, J. N.Y. Ent, Soc. x. p. 40 (1902); Djar, 

 Oat. Lep. N. Am. p. 109. 



S . Head and thorax greyish ochreous mixed with fuscous 

 brown ; palpi fuscous ; pectus whitish ; tarsi fuscous ringed with 

 white ; abdomen whitish suffused with brown, the basal crest black 

 and white. Fore wing greyish ochreous, the disk tinged with 

 reddish brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous except at 

 apex, the veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks ; subbasal 

 and antemedial lines absent ; orbicular represented by a slight 

 whitish mark above median nervure ; a diffused fuscons streak on 

 terminal half of median nervure extending to beyond the cell ; a 

 small white spot at lower angle of cell with whitish points before 

 and beyond it ; postmedial line represented by a series of black 

 points on the veins with whitish points beyond them, bent outwards 

 below costa and oblique below vein 4, some whitish points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line absent; cilia fuscous intersected with 

 white. Hind wing white, the veins of terminal area slightly tinged 

 with fuscous ; a fine dark terminal line ; the underside with the 

 VOL. viir. 2 a 



