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broad space, and consists of four irregular, confluent spots; the outer edges 

 of the band thus formed edged with black ; the fourth spot confluent with 

 the concolored abdominal margin; in cell, an orange bar on either side 

 the triangular spot ; a similar bar in the interspace above cell, and an 

 orange lunulc in submedian interspace next submedian nervure, and a 

 small orange triangle at origin of lower branch of median ; an orange bar 

 also next the basal side of the fourth band. Body above black, with ful- 

 vous hairs; rings of abdomen edged with yellow; below, thorax and abdo- 

 men yellow-white ; legs pale fulvous ; palpi same above, yellow-white in 

 front ; antennae fuscous, with narrow, white rings, below orange cretaceous 

 next base ; club fuscous, orange beloAv and at tip. 



Female. Expands 1.9 inches. Color of upper side sometimes like 

 male, sometimes paler. In some individuals, the submarginal spots and the 

 third, or discal row, are paler than the rest of the wing, and the three outer 

 rows on primaries likewise paler. Under side similar in color and markings 

 to male. 



From Montana, Nevada, and Southern Utah. Specimens have been 

 received from the geological expedition for exploration of the Territories, 

 and from tin's survey of 1872 ; also from Henry Edwards, esq. This spe- 

 cies is at once distinguished from its allies by the yellow-white under sur- 

 face, especially of secondaries; this color nearly occupying the whole 

 wing. Edwards, I. c. 



PHYCIODES, Hiibn. 

 PHYCIODES NYCTEIS, Doubleday. 

 Phyciodes (Enone, SCUD., Proc. Essex Inst., 1863. 



Occurs occasionally in the mountains at about 7,500 feet elevation late 

 in June. Colorado specimens are much darker than those from the Eastern 

 States ; the black sometimes covering two-thirds of the surface above. 

 Specimens from Texas in my collection are about intermediate between this 

 heavily marked form and the usual eastern type. 



PHYCIODES CAELOTA, Beak. 



Phyciodes Carlota, EEAKIET, Proc. But. Soc. Phila., 1867. 



,17. Ismeria, 1833, BOISD. (never recognizably described or figured). 



Not uncommon at the lower levels and near Denver. Females much 



