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with slight black streaks befoi-e it in the interspaces, minutely 

 waved, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved below 

 vein 3 ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia pale with a 

 fuscous line through them. Hind wing white tinged with brown, 

 the veins and terminal area suffused with fuscous ; a slight 

 discoidal point ; cilia white with a dark line through them ; the 

 underside white irrorated with fuscous, especially on costal and 

 terminal areas, a discoidal point and postmedial series of minute 

 streaks on the veins. 



Hab. U.S.A., California, Sanzalito, 3 S type. Exp. 34 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennaj of male ciliated. 



2251. Lepipolys perscripta. 



Lefipolys ferscripta, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 174, pi. vii. f. 10 (1852) 

 Oat. Noct. ]SI. Am. p. 259. 



Smith, 



Head and thorax grey tinged with brown and irrorated with 

 a few large black scales ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen pale 

 reddish brown. Pore wing grey tinged with brown and sparsely 

 irrorated with large black scales, especially on the veins ; subbasal 

 line black, slightly waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line indistinctly double, black, waved, slightly angled out- 

 wards below costa and inwards in submedian fold, somewhat 

 oblique, with some large black scales before it ; claviform large 

 defined by black at extremity ; orbicular and reniform large with 

 slight whitish annuli defined by black, the former round ; medial 

 line represented by a slight dark mark on costa ; postmedial line 



Fig. 46. — Lejnpolys inrscripta, (^ . \. 



double, the outer line very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely dentate below vein 4, incurved to below reniform, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line formed of 

 small dentate white marks angled outwards at veins 7, 6, and 

 excurved at middle ; a waved black terminal line ; cilia grey- 

 brown with two slight dark lines through them. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with brown ; the veins brown ; the terminal area 

 sufi'used with brown ; cilia white with a pale brown line near 

 base ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown, a small discoidal spot. 



Hah. U.S.A., 1 (5 , 1 $ , Massachusetts, Florida, St. John's 



