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Citra. Primaries light gray and lemon-yellow, with black outlines. 

 Secondaries vermilion and gray; under side: primaries yellow and 

 gray, with white outer band ; secondaries : costal third yellow, rest 

 vermilion, bands gray. Males, secondaries subhyaline. 



BANDS. 



Aulea. Primaries: bands distinct near costa, fading away below; mar- 

 ginal band faint. Secondaries: blackish bands very wide; bands one 

 and two confluent, except at costa. 



Picta. Primaries: bands more distinct; marginal band slightly dentate 

 at apex and disconnected at vein six; oand two the widest, crossing 

 the wing uninterruptedly and forming somewhat the figure of an in- 

 terrogation mark (?). Secondaries: inner band continuous, median 

 and outer bands disconnected, but confluent near anal angle; in the 

 female the inner band is widest, and all three are confluent at anal 

 angle. 



Maia. Marginal band the most conspicuous, dentate throughout and 

 connected at vein six; band two often disconnected and constantly 

 narrowed by a heavy, triangular, black spot at the bifurcation of the 

 median vein. Secondaries of male hyaline, of female crossed by 

 three continuous gray bands, of which the outer is the widest; the 

 three bands united near anal angle. 



Citra. Primaries: all the bands continuous across the wing; marginal 

 band the most conspicuous in the male, and marginal and band two 

 equally so in the female; marginal band dentate; band two as in 

 picta, but showing the triangulate black spot of maia. Secondaries 

 of male subhyaline, of female crossed by three bands; the inner band 

 is continuous, the median band is sometimes continuous and occa- 

 sionally broken into two parts; the outer band is divided into three. 



BASAL SPACE. 



Aulea. Base of secondaries blackish; inner margin blackish. 

 Picta. Base of secondaries carmine and pale slate; inner margin slate. 

 Maia. Base of secondaries vermilion; inner margin vermilion. 

 Citra. Base of secondaries vermilion; inner margin vermilion. 



ABDOMEN. 



Aulea. Dorsal surface solidly dark slate; ventral white, with sublateral 

 and median gray bands. 



Picta. Dorsal surface : male carmine, with wide, median, gray band; 

 female: each segment chiefly slate, carmine showing like stripes be- 

 tween the segments; ventral surface white, with three median and 

 three sublateral small spots, all about equal ; the lateral spots are 

 large. 



