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dark irroration in centres, the former more or less oblique 

 elliptical, the latter with its lower part filled in with black ; an 

 indistinct waved medial line; postmedial line double filled in with 

 white, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to 

 black and white points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 white, defined on inner side by small dentate blackish marks, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules ; cilia fuscous with fine pale line at base and 

 intersected with whitish. Hind wing ochreous whitish suffused 

 with brown especially on terminal area, leaving a whitish mark on 

 termen towards tornus ; a slight discoidal lunule and postmedial 

 line ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia ochreous white with a dark 

 line through them except towards tornus ; the underside with the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal 

 spot, and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. U.S.A., New York, Evans Center {Grote), 1 cJ' , 1 § type, 

 Wisconsin. Exjj., (S 42, $ 46 millim. 



*2936. Trachea perpenoa. (Plate CXIT. fig. 15.) 



Harhna perpenoa, Grote, Can. Ent. xiii. p. 229 (1881) ; Smith, Oat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 1^8. 



5 . Head and thorax brownish grey mixed with black ; frons 

 with black spots at sides ; tegiilte with strong black medial line ; 

 protboracic crest blackish in front ; abdomen grey mixed with 

 fuscous, the dorsal crests blackish. Eore wing grey tinged with 

 brown and fuscous ; a black streak below the cell extending to 

 antemedial line ; subbasal line represented by two oblique black 

 etrise from costa; antemedial line double at costa, then oblique 

 to postmedial line above vein 1, then represented by a long 

 streak above inner margin with a short oblique streak before 

 it; orbicular a very elongate oblique V-shaped mark defined 

 by black, its lower extremity connected with the reniform, which 

 is defined by black on inner side and below, open above and on 

 median nervure, where it is angled inwards, with slight whitish 

 lunule on outer side ; postmedial line defined by whitish on outer 

 side, bent outAvards below costa, then dentate and produced to 

 short black streaks on the veins, oblique below vein 4, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line diffused, whitish, ex- 

 curved above and below middle and incurved at discal and 

 submedian folds, the interspaces beyond it with black streaks, 

 stronger above and below veins 5 and 2, ending in small terminal 

 lunules. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with brown ; cilia white, tipped with brown from apex to 

 vein 2; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown,' a discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Mexico, Arizona, in Coll. Schaus. Exjp, 

 36 millim. 



