Packard.] 382 



[May 4, 



slightly sinuate brown line, on the inner side of which the wing is 

 clearer than elsewhere. Beneath, the wings are closely dotted with 

 dark scales, with the outer lines reproduced, though most distinct on 

 the hind wings. 



$ . Length of fore wing, .85 ; body, .65 inch. Behrens. 



Cheer odes aegrotata (Guen.) 6,9. 



The wings are less falcate than in C. transversata and transduccns, 

 the hind wings are like C. transversata, but with a slight tooth be- 

 tween the apex and central large tooth, while the wings are without 

 the usual band on their outer third. Head, palpi, and antenna? the 

 same. Body and wings of a uniform pale light fawn color; wings al- 

 most white beneath. Head with thick hairs on vertex, the scales be- 

 ing longer than usual; just below the antennas a dark brown band; 

 below a little paler than the vertex. Palpi tipped with brown. An- 

 tennas concolorous with the rest cf the body. Wings densely 

 speckled with brown; an inner curved, very slightly dusky line with 

 five or six black dots, and a similar line going from just beyond the 

 middle of the hinder edge, following a sinuous course to the costa 

 near the apex, with a black dot on each venule. A few minute 

 black dots on base of fringe, which is concolorous with the rest of 

 wing. A slight discal dot on both wings, that on fore wing small but 

 diffuse, that on hind wing a minute black dot; hind wings same 

 as fore wings, the speckles are arranged in a faint band, straight, 

 crossing the middle of the wing. An outer curved row of black dots 

 parallel to the outer edge. Beneath, dull white; costa and antennas, 

 half of fore wings, together with the costa and outer half of hind wings 

 sprinkled with black scales, and a row of dots parallel to outer edge 

 of wing near edge; discal dots as above, but larger and much more 

 distinct. Fore legs dusky in front, tarsi of hind and middle legs 

 dusky, otherwise white. 



Length of fore wing, .83 ; body, .65 inch. 



This common species varies in the tint of the wings, and the outer 

 line of dots varies in distinctness and degree of sinuosity. In one 

 specimen the outer band on the fore wing divides into two, the 

 inner, opposite the discal dot,being a broad wavy band situated half- 

 way between the dot and the outer band. 



Several specimens received from Mr. Behrens show that this spe- 

 cies varies considerably in the degree of distinctness of the dusky I 

 cloud on the inside of the outer row of dots, the inner edge often be- 

 ing straight and crossing the middle of the wing, while both pairs I 



