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TiMETES CoRESiA Doubleday. 



Marpesia Zerynthia Hubuer. 



Expands 2f inches. 



Primaries triangular ; costa much arched towards apes ; hind margin 

 sinuate ; secondaries tenninatiug in a long straight tail, with a shorter tail 

 near the anal angle. 



Upper side dark velvety brown, a shade lighter at the base; hind mar- 

 gin yellowish-brown ; a sub-apical dark patch on primai-ies ; both wings 

 have a sub-marginal black line, on the inner side of which is a faint brown 

 line ; they are nearly obsolete on primaries ; at the anal angle, a black lu- 

 nule ; tail tipped with white. 



Under side : the outer half of both wings glossy brown with a voilet 

 lustre, dentated on the inner side and edged with black ; proceeding this 

 is a narrow common band of reddish-brown .that extends from middle of 

 costa of primaries to the anal angle ; beyond to base, satin-white, with two 

 fine wavy yellowish lines running nearly across the wings, and a similar 

 abbreviated line near the base of primaries; along the hind margin, a red- 

 dish line ; the anal lunule edged with white atoms and a second dark lu- 

 nule in the brown space near the other. 



Body above dark brown, below white; palpi white; antennae and clul 

 dark brown, the latter tipped with reddish. 

 Texas. 



