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curving in nearly a semicircle round the cell to the second divarica- 

 tion of the median, then recurving ends near the anal angle. The 

 third extends, slightly curving, from the exterior to the anal angle, 

 and is not very distinct, as the space between it and the external bor- 

 der is of a deep ferruginous brown, forming indeed a marginal band. 

 Beneath both wings fulvous, almost chromaceous, sparsely spotted 

 with brown. Primaries with bands of upper surface repeated without 

 white scales. Third band nearly obsolete. Secondaries with bands 

 of upper surface repeated; third nearly obsolete. No traces of the 

 marginal one exist, except that the brown spots are thicker along the 

 outer border. 



This species is very common throughout New England in July and 

 August. It is found in pathways and sandy open glades, flying in 

 the hottest sunshine. I have named it after my friend Mr. Faxon. 



Anisopteryx P strigataria nov. sp. $ Al. ex., 1.5 to 1.7 inch. 

 Smoky, plain silvery white margin. Above, primaries with three 

 transverse, erose, linear bands of a fuliginous color, extending respect- 

 ively from the exterior and basal quarters, and the middle of the 

 costal to the interior margin. The first is curved outwardly, the 

 second is nearly straight, the third is very variable and irregular. 

 Along the outer margin there is a continuous row of triangular, fulig- 

 inous, internervular dots. Secondaries dirty white, with a few brown 

 scales, thickest near the external border, very faint traces of the 

 continuation of the bands on the primaries, except at the inner 

 margin, where the bands are broad, distinct, and taper so rapidly 

 that (since the rest of the line is so nearly obsolete) we might per- 

 haps say there were three triangular spots on the inner margin. The 

 marginal dots of the forewings have become a narrow line. There is 

 a brown spot at the termination of the disk. Beneath, both wings 

 color of the upper surface of the secondaries, with a few brown scales 

 at the outer third of the subcosta, with a dot at the termination of 

 the disk. Mr. Sanborn informs me that the ? is wingless. 



Taken around Boston on the last of April and the first of May, in 

 the same places as A. vernata (Peck) Harris. Flies towards dusk. 



Var. Primaries above with a transverse sinuous band near the 

 outer margin. 



Colls. Min. and Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 



Tephrosia fumataria nov. sp. Al. ex., 1.4 to 1.6 inch. 

 Smoky, spotted and marked with brown. Above, primaries with a 

 transverse, somewhat nebulous band, sinuate and erose on the ex- 



