DESCRIPTION OF A NEW DREPANODES

Abstract

Notwithstanding the variability of D. varus Grote, of which species D. sesquilinea is stated by Dr. Packard to be the ordinary male form, there can be no doubt that a very interesting species from Maine (prof. Fernald)and Massachusetts (Mr. Roland Thaxter) is distinct from any previously described. In this form the exterior line is without a costal angulation. It may be called Drepanodes Fernaldi n.s. ♀ Larger than the other species, light purplish brown. The two transverse lines composed of broken black lunules shaded with white. A black discal point on primaries. A median diffuse brown shade near the exterior line and continued on hind wings. The exterior line extends straight to costa near apices and is here not angulated; it is continued on hind wings, but merely as a white sub-lunulated line with black pointlets on the veins. Terminal space on fore wings shaded with brown. Fringes on both wings pale. Edge of secondaries brown. Beneath paler than above, sub-irrorate. A common white exterior lunulated line marked by black pointlets on the veins. Discal dots on both wings.