LEPIDOPTEEA HETEROCERA. 1459 



SCOPULA COMMIXTALIS. 



Foem. Cinerea, nigricante conspersa ; palpi porrecti, subtus albi, 

 capitis latitudine paullo breviores, articulo So longi-conico ; 

 alee anticte latiusculce, strigis nigris, una furcata, linea exte- 

 riore dentata nigra, linea duplicata e guttis nigricantibus 

 marginalibus ; posticce cinerea, linea media obscuriore obliqua 

 dentata diffusa. 



Female. Cinereous. Body beneath, abdomen and legs silvery 

 white. Head, thorax and most part of fore wings thickly blackish- 

 speckled. Palpi porrect, smooth, moderately broad, white beneath 

 towards the base, a little shorter than the breadth of the head; third 

 joint elongate-conical, minute. Antennae slender. Abdomen not 

 extending beyond the hind wings. Legs smooth, slender ; fore legs 

 dark cinereous above. Fore wings acute, rather broad, with a few 

 irregular black streaks, of which one in the disk beyond the middle 

 is forked ; a more exterior dentate oblique black line ; a double row 

 of marginal blackish dots; exterior border hardly convex, moderately 

 oblique. Hind wings cinereous, with a darker diffuse dentate 

 oblique middle line. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 

 10 lines. 



a. St. Martin's Falls, Albany Kiver, Hudson's Bay. Presented by 

 Dr. Bamston. 



SCOPULA MARGINALIS. 



Ferruginea ; palpi porrecti, lati, capitis latitudine vix breviores, 

 articulo 3o parvo acuto ; abdomen cinereum ; alee latiusculce, 

 linea obliqua cinerea ; anticce nigricantes, albido marginatce ; 

 postica cinerece,fere hyalina, fusco late marginatai. 



Ferruginous. Body beneath and legs silvery white. Palpi 

 porrect, smooth, broad, white beneath, nearly as long as the breadth 

 of the head ; third joint acute, minute. Abdomen cinereous. Legs 

 smooth, slender. Wings rather broad, with a cinereous line, which 

 extends from the end of the interior border of the hind wings to 

 four-fifths of the length of the costa of the fore wings ; under side 

 mostly cinereous. Fore wings hardly acute ; exterior border slightly 

 convex, moderately oblique. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the 

 wings 9 lines. 



«. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, HudsWs Bay. Presented by 

 Dr. Barnston. 



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