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CUT-WORMS. DESCRIPTION OP THE WINGS CONTINUED. 
point. Its anterior end is cut off, either transversely, obliquely or irregu¬ 
larly, by a faint pale gray streak, which is a portion of the anterior or 
extra-basal band. (See generalities preceding the description of the wings 
of the Tobacco-worm moth). In the best specimens this pale streak is dis¬ 
tinctly seen to be prolonged backwards along the outer side of the black 
spot almost to the Stigma; and then suddenly turning at a right angle, it 
runs obliquely forward and outward in a straight line to the outer margin, 
between the two small black spots which are here placed on the margin. 
In the opposite direction this pale streak is also prolonged from the for¬ 
ward end of the black triangular spot, inward and backward and curves 
slightly forward to the inner longitudinal vein, and beyond this, with 
another similar curve, is extended to the inner edge of the wing, it being 
margined on both sides by a black line, that along its hind side being 
commonly more conspicuous. And a short distance back from this line, 
equidistant between the inner midvein and the inner vein, may always be 
seen a black dot or short dash, which is the extreme point of a black 
stripe called the teliform stigma, which is common upon the wings of the 
moths of this genus, but in this variety of this species is wholly wanting, 
except this minute vestige of its apex. And also crossing this inner half 
of the wing obliquely at about two-thirds of the distance from the base 
to the hind edge are two other parallel blackish lines, representing the 
post-medial band. The anterior one of these lines is irregularly wavy and 
angular, and turns obliquely forward as it approaches the posterior stigma, 
and appears to pass into the inner hind angle of the square black spot. 
The posterior line, as traced from the inner edge of the wing, curves 
slightly backward till it reaches a point a short distance back of the inner 
end of the hind stigma, when it becomes nearly transverse, and then curves 
forward and obliquely outward to the outer edge of the wing, ending in 
the posterior one of the two black spots which are on the outer edge oppo¬ 
site to the anterior side of the hind stigma. This line, in the middle of 
the wing, is festooned or made up as it were of crescents united at their 
ends, these ends projecting backwards and forming about four acute angu¬ 
lar points ; and sometimes this line is made more distinct by a faint pale 
gray line bordering it on its hind side, at least in the concavities of the 
crescents. But both those blackish lines are commonly quite faint and entire¬ 
ly vanish in many specimens. Beyond this, a broad space on the hind bor¬ 
der of the wing is darker colored and traversed by a whitish line, which 
is wavy and often broken into a series of small irregular spots, these spots 
sometimes having larger black cloud-like spots abjoining them on the fore 
side. Back of the outer end of this line the tip of the wing is occupied by 
a triangular gray spot. The hind edge is faintly sinuated, with a series of 
slender black crescents surmounting the sinuosities. The fringe is con- 
color with the portion of the wing immediately forward of it. The hind 
wings are smoky whitish, with a broad dusky hind border, dusky veins, 
a nd an obscure dusky crescent near the centre. Their fringe is dull white 
with a dusky band near its middle. On the underside they are clearer 
white, with a broad dusky hind border and sprinklod with dusky scales 
