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The true female of obliqua is always brown (trouvelotii 

 Fsick. = brunnea G. & R.). In the present species, the sexes 

 are similar. 



Discal mark more lunate and blacker than in obliqtia; pale 

 shade before the subterminal line less contrasted, greener, more 

 extensive, running down to anal angle and not as much broken 

 into spots ; dashes between veins 5 and 7 absorbed in the black 

 subterminal shade ; terminal line broken into zigzag dashes, 

 more irregular than in obliqua. 



Types, No. 34160, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; one male and two 

 females, Georgia ; one female, Florida, without further data. 



The larva differs from that of obliqua in having the dorsal 

 whitish band less widely extended on the sides and more 

 broadly joined on joints 7-8 ; but it does not possess these 

 characters in as marked a degree as the larva of picta, being 

 intermediate between the two larvae. 



Larval data: Atlanta, Georgia, September 9, 1878 (C. V. 

 Riley); "249L" (C. V. Riley); "281L," June 3, 1873 (C. V. 

 Riley) ; "249L?," on oak, September 39, 1874 (C. V. Riley) ; 

 "on oak," July 26, 1882 (young), August 24, 1882 (mature) 

 (C. V. Riley); Tryon, North Carolina (H. G. Dyar). 



This may be varm Walker (Cat. Brit. Mus., v, 1023, 1855) 

 described from a single female without locality, provided that 

 specimen was American. In Bulletin 52 I made varia a syno- 

 nym of astarte; Packard made it the same as obliqua, but did 

 not use the name; Barnes & McDunnough use varia with 

 obliqua as synonym. I have no data beyond Walker's de- 

 scription, which cannot apply to obliqua nor astarte, coming 

 nearest to the present form. 



Disphragis rufinans, new species. 



Fore wing gray, with a reddish blotch on inner margin near 

 base and another replacing the lower part of the subapical 

 white streak ; subbasal line black, indicated on costal half ; a 

 narrow black streak along submedian from base to the red 

 area ; inner and outer line black, geminate, pale filled, the 

 outer especially dislocated on the veins and exserted mesially ; 

 a white streak from apex beyond outer line ; black terminal 



