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of large brown scales, which also border the spot exteriorly 

 and encroach upon it ; beyond and bordering the oval 

 patch is a quadrate yellow spot, half way between which 

 and the apex, approaching the costal border is a small 

 divided yellow spot ; there are a few yellow hairs along 

 the inner border. Secondaries with a few yellow hairs^ 

 giving a dull tint over the whole disk ; the iringe of both 

 wings is pale brown. 



Beneath dark brown slightly dusted with ochraceous 

 scales. Primaries ; the yellow spots of upper surface 

 repeated ; a few yellowish scales along basal lialf of costal 

 border. Secondaries with a faint pale-yellowish narrow 

 transverse band just beyond the middle, scarcely reaching 

 either border. 



9 Differs from the $ as usual, and also in wanting 

 the spot beyond the black patch, which is replaced !)y two 

 others, the smaller between the last two branches of the 

 median at their base, the other on the space below a little 

 more towards the base ; the spots are brighter tlian in the 

 male and the secondaries are more nearly uniform ; be- 

 neath the spots of the primaries are repeated and the sec- 

 ondaries are as in the male — Expanse of wings 1 1-4 in. 

 $ Mass. F. G. Sanborn ; $ $ Georgia, Harris' Collection 

 from Mr. Abbot and Dr. Oemler ; $ Western States, Mus, 

 Comp. Zool. ; very rare in N. England ; July. 



74. Hesperia Manataaqua. Hesperia cernes Karr. Ing. 

 3rd Ed. 316 (not H. cernes Boisd and Lee.) 



The two specimens, one from Massachusetts and the 

 other from Georgia, from which Dr. Harris drew up the 

 description of H. cernes belong apparently to two repre- 

 sentative species, differing from one another (they are both 

 males) in the oblique black dash of the primaries ; they 

 can neither of them be referred to H. cernes Boisd. and 

 Lee, which is more nearly allied to the succeeding species 

 though of the size of these ; the species from Georgia 

 appears to be yet undescribed ; to the one from Massachu- 

 setts may be given the name I have proposed above ; the 

 female differs from the male only in wanting the oblique 

 black dash of primaries, and in the presence of two rather 

 large squarish yellowish spots, at the outer extremity of 

 Inhere the oblique dash would be if present, between the 



