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few black scales, which on the upper surface supersede the others ; last 

 joint black ; antennne black, annulated broadly below, narrowly above, 

 at the base of each joint with glossy, pale lemon-yellow scales, which on 

 the base of the stem are merged into a common bright patch ; club, 

 excepting as just stated, black ; the crook dull castaneous to the very 



tip. 



Thorax covered above with mingled greenish-yellow and brownish 

 hairs, the brighter ones more conspicuous on the prothorax and patagia 

 than elsewhere ; beneath covered with pale yellowish hairs, mingled with 

 dusky ones. Femora pale yellow, whitish above, the inside of the middle 

 and hind pair dusky ; tibise and tarsi dull orange, becoming dusky above, 

 especially at the tips of the tarsal joints and increasingly so toward the 

 tips of the- legs ; spurs pale orange, tipped minutely with testaceous ; 

 spines testaceous ; spurs reddish ; pad dusky. 



Wings above tawny, exceedingly broadly bordered with dark brown, 

 particularly in the female, where the tawny is reduced to a comparatively 

 narrow interrupted band. Fore wings with the outer margin broadly 

 bordered with dark brown, the interior margin of the border passing 

 from the tip of the costal nervure on the costal margin in a bent, slightly 

 curved, pretty regular line to the middle of the outer two-thirds of the 

 submedian nervure, and passing midway between the apex of the cell and 

 the outer margin of the wing ; the inner margin is similarly bordered with 

 dark brown as far as the submedian nervure ; the costal edge is blackish, 

 and within these encompassing borders the veins are distinctly marked 

 with dark brown ; besides which the outer limit of the cell and the outer 

 half or two-thirds of the upper limit are rather broadly bordered 

 externally with blackish, which often reaches to the costal border ; 

 besides, the basal third of the wing, and especially the part lying 

 below the middle of the cell, is heavily begrimed with brownish scales, 

 most conspicuously next the nervures ; and all these latter markings are 

 so blended in the female that no tawny color whatever is left but a small 

 quadrate spot (often obsolete) at the tip of the cell, and a transverse, nearly 

 equal, strongly curving or bent band next the outer bordering, about as 

 broad as the width of the cell ; this is indeed most frequently reduced to 

 a series of 7 or 8 unequal longitudinal spots, forming a bent series lying 

 farther removed from the outer margin, the upper portion starting from 

 the middle of the outer half of the costal margin and directed toward a 



