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conical, less than half the length of the second. Antennae slender, 

 smooth. Abdomen very stout, quadrate at the tip, not extending 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs smooth ; spurs rather short. Fore 

 wings rounded at the tips, slightly marked and minutely speckled 

 with brown, this hue forming two or three transverse indistinct 

 incomplete undulating lines ; discal dot black, transverse, elongated ; 

 marginal points blackish ; costa and exterior border very slightly 

 convex, the latter rather oblique. Length of the body 3 lines; of 

 the wings 10 lines. 



a — d. North America. From Mr. Carter's collection. 



76. PENTHINA TRANSM1SSANA. 



Mas . Afbida; palpi nigro bifasciaii ; thorax fascia nigro-fusca ; 

 alee anticce fuscce, liturts albidis, fascia interiore strigisque 

 duabus exterioribus connexis albidis fasco conspersis, striga 

 2a ramulum apud unguium, inleriorem emiltente, linea mar- 

 ginali albida ; posticce cinercce. 



Near P. dealbana. Male. — Whitish. Palpi porrect, with two 

 black bands, shorter than the breadth of the head; second joint broadly 

 fringed ; third conical, very minute. Thorax with a blackish brown 

 band. Abdomen extending be\ond the hind wings. Tibia? and tarsi 

 with brown bands. Fore wiugs brown, hardly acute, with various 

 whitish marks ; a whitish brown-speckled band before the middle, and 

 two exterior broad whitish brown-speckled streaks, which are con- 

 nected towards the costa ; first streak extending along the costa and 

 containing some brown oblique costal marks ; second extending to the 

 interior an^le and emitting a branch to the interior border; mar- 

 ginal line whitish; exterior border hardly oblique. Hind wiugs 

 cinereous. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



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



77. Penthina ochreoalbana. 



Foem. Cinereo-nigra ; caput albidum ; ala> antica? strigis trans- 

 versa latis atns, lituris costalibus basi albidis dimidio apicali 

 albido nebulas ochraceas lituras costales nigras liturasque mar- 

 ginales subochraceas includente ; posticce cinerea?. 



Allied to P, ochreoleucana. Female. — Cinereous-black. Head 

 whitish. Palpi whitish, slightly decumbent, not extending beyond 



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