LEPIDOPTERA HETEEOCEEA. 1729 



alee anticce ac\itce,fusco varies, nigricante conspersce, linea sub- 

 marginaii alba dentata informi, gutta discali nigricante ; pos- 

 tica fuscescente-cinereee. 



Male. Cinereous. Body thickly speckled with brown. Palpi 

 obliquely ascending, not rising so high as the vertex ; third joint 

 conical, very minute. Antennae pubescent. Abdomen not extending 

 beyond the hind wings. Fore wings acute, partly brown, with blackish 

 speckles, which are here and there almost confluent; subraarginal 

 line white, dentate, irregular ; discal dot blackish ; exterior border 

 very slightly convex, rather oblique. Hind wings brownish cine- 

 reous, except along the interior border, where they resemble the 

 fore wings iu hue. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 

 16 lines. 



a. Trenton Falls, New York. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



ClDARIA ? FRIGIDATA. 



Mas. Cinerea ; palpi fimbriati, subdecumbentes, capitis latitudine 

 breviores, articulo 3o conic o ; antennee validce, laves; tibice 

 posticee calcarJbus parvis ; anticee acutee, fascia lata spatioque 

 medio fuscis, litura basali lineisque tribus strigisque duabus 

 snbapicalibus nigris, lineis la 2aque subrectis, 3a undulata 

 dentata, fascia submarginali arcuata strigisque marginalibus 

 fuscis ; postica? pallidiores, lituris nullis. 



Male. Cinereous. Palpi fringed, slightly decumbent, shorter 

 than the breadth of the head ; third joint conical, not more than 

 one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennas stout, smooth. 

 Abdomen somewhat tumid at the tip ; apical tuft short. Legs 

 smooth ; hind tibiae with four short spurs. Fore wings acute, brown 

 towards the exterior border, and with a broad brown band before 

 the middle; a black basal mark, three black lines and two black 

 subapical streaks ; first and second lines bordering the brown band, 

 nearly straight and upright; third line undulating, dentate; a sub- 

 marginal curved brown band and brown marginal streaks ; costa and 

 exterior border very slightly convex, the latter very oblique. Hind 

 wings pale cinereous, without markings. Length of the body 5 lines ; 

 of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Eedman's collection. 



