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shade. Median lines distinct, narrow, whitish tinged with the adjoin¬ 
ing colors, the transverse anterior forming a single curve, the trans¬ 
verse posterior slightly sinuate. There is a terminal row of black dots; 
fringes long. Posterior wings black, immaculate; fringes whitish. 
Under side of both pair of wings black tinged with reddish along the 
costal and external margins. Head and thorax brown ; abdomen dark 
brown, terminal segment yellow.—Exp. 1 inch, % 9 . 
Hal). I have seen only specimens from N. Y. State. Coll. Ent. 
Soc. Phil, Messrs. F. & J. Tepper and E. L. Graef, Brooklyn, L. I. 
M. G-uenee does not notice the different coloration of the anal seg¬ 
ment and merely says in his description, “ Corps brun.’’ In other re¬ 
spects his description perfectly accords with my specimens, and I have 
no doubt that this is the species intended. 
Antlioscia Spraguei iiov. sp. Plate 6, fig. 4 , 5 9 . 
Alse anteriores mixtse e rubro et cinereo colore; regiones subtermi- 
nales et basales obscuriores, rubrae-brunneae, priores cum olivacea tinc- 
tura, praesertini femiua. Lineae mediales distinctae; transversale an- 
terius egalem di-orbem formans ; transversale posterius paene perpen- 
diculare tantuni inferior pars anteriori transversali se advertens. Alte 
posteriores claras flavae cum nigra lunula et terminal! lato lino. Abdo¬ 
men flavum. 
Anterior wings reddish olivaceous-grey, silky. Basal and subterminal 
spaces rich reddish brown, latter tinged with olivaceous especially in 
the 9 • Median space reddish gray with a darker posterior shade ob¬ 
scuring, in some specimens, the reniform spot; terminal space darker 
than median. Median lines distinct, whitish, tinged with the adjoin¬ 
ing shades, the transverse anterior forming a single even curve, the trans¬ 
verse posterior almost straight with a slight inclination towards the trans¬ 
verse anterior below the discal space. Subterminal line merely indi¬ 
cated by the difference between the coloring of the terminal and sub- 
terminal spaces; there is a terminal row of black marks; fringes long, 
dark olivaceous, Posterior wings light yellow with a broad black ter¬ 
minal band narrowest at anal angle and a blackish discal lunule; 
fringes light. Under surface of anterior wings blackish, tinged with red 
along the external margin, yellowish at base and along internal margin 
and showing a black discal spot and band. Under surhxce of posterior 
wings yellowish, with a well defined median blackish band, tinged with 
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