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from the flattened front and are held apart. They are straight and strongly com¬ 
pressed, with loose scales at the base, those of the second joint being smoothly 
appressed to its surface; third joint distinct but small, little longer than thick, cylin- 
dric-conic, its apex bluntly rounded. The spiral trunk is more than half the length 
of the antennae. The antennas arc more than half the length of the body, and of a 
wood brown color. In the males they are pectinated, having two rows of longish 
branches which are directed downward and are curved, their tips approaching each 
other and ending in a fine short bristle. These branches are minutely ciliated and 
gradually diminish in length, the ten last joints being merely toothed like a saw, each 
tooth tipped with a fine bristle. In the female these organs are simple, thread-like, 
more slender toward their tips, with two rows of fine bristles along the under side. 
The thorax is broad oval, but little longer than thick, and is clothed with scales, and 
along each side with hairs of a rusty yellowish color. The abdomen is cylindric, 
reaching the inner angle of the wings in the dried specimen, longer when alive. It 
is pale brown, often with a dark brown band on the hind edge of each segment. It 
is narrowed at its tip and ends in a circular fringe of brown hairs inside of which, in 
the males, are two valves which are clothed with white scales. The wings are some¬ 
what broad, measuring in a male 0.58 by 0.32 and the hind pair 0.50 by 0.34; they 
are scalloped on their hind edge with six rounded sinuses in each, those of the hind 
pair being more deep. They have a silky gloss and are grayish yellow or fawn 
colored, commonly freckled more or less with short transverse brown lines. The 
fore wings have the outer or costal edge straight with the ends gently curved, and the 
hind edge somewhat oblique and forming an obtusely rounded angle near the mid¬ 
dle, the outer third of its length being straight or sometimes slightly concave. The 
costal margin is gray, tinged with green when alive, this color being much wider from 
the middle nearly to the tip, and much freckled with short transverse blackish lines. 
Forward of the middle a straight nut brown band crosses the wing obliquely, the 
outer end of which is faint and bent forward. Crossing the wing beyond its middle 
are two blackish lines, nearly parallel with the brown band and with each other, 
about four times their width apart, the hind one often a little bent outside of its mid¬ 
dle, making the intervening space wider at this point, and then approaching the for¬ 
ward line and uniting with it on the costa. The space between these lines dark rusty 
yellow, appearing to the eye a broad dark colored band crossing the wing and con¬ 
tinuous with a similar band on the hind wings. A cloud of sky blue scales bordering 
this band on the hind side of its inner end. A black spot on the inner angle, and a 
dark rusty yellow spot on the hind edge slightly inside of the tip. The hind wings 
have a broad rusty yellow band across their middle, continuous with that of the fore 
wings, but the blackish line on its anterior edge is faint or wholly disappears, whilst 
that on its hind edge is slightly thicker and more distinct than on the fore wings, and 
is bordered on its hind side by sky blue scales, which are more sparse toward the outer 
side of the wing, or wholly vanish. To these scales succeeds a second rusty yellow 
band, which becomes darker toward its hind edge. This band widens from its inner 
end to the middle, and from thence continues broad to its outer end ; but frequently 
its outer half is faint, being tinged with lilac red, which color occupies the remaining 
portion of the wing, back of this band, except a large patch of rusty yellow on the 
hind edge at its outer end ; and two or three lunules of rusty yellow surmount the 
notches which are next inside of this patch, the inner lunule being much more broad 
and conspicuous; and following it is a black lunule surmounting the inner notch of 
the series. The fringe is short and gray intermixed with scales of sky blue, with a 
brown line across its middle and another at its base. The underside is bright orange, 
the costal margin of the fore wings gray. Both pairs are crossed in the middle by a 
