1865.] 7 



especially toward the outer border ; the dark brown scales congregate 

 into a basal spot which is marbled with narrow bars of white ; they 

 form also the middle band, which is of nearly uniform width through- 

 out, and is marbled within with white, grayish-white and light brown 

 bars, is bordered on the inside broadly, on the outside narrowly, with 

 whitish bands marbled with narrow transverse bars of dark brown ; out- 

 side of all there is a broad band of lighter brown, made up of a nearly 

 uniform marbling of dark brown, ochraceous-brown and grayish-white, 

 the latter ftiintly dividing the middle with indistinct white spots in the 

 interspaces; small white spots also upon the border in the interspaces of 

 the median nervure. upon which rest larger dark brown spots, the eye 

 as on upper surface; the outer border of the middle band 

 extends from the costal border crenulate to the second sub- 

 costal nervule in a general direction at right angles to the 

 j costal border; from here it extends to the extremity of the 

 cell in one very large conical projection, and from the cell 

 to the inner border moves in crenations, each of which oc- 

 cupies an interspace, gradually curving towards the base ; the inner 

 border moving from the costal edge has a slight tooth borderwards before 

 reaching the subcostal nervure, reaches the middle of the cell, is there 

 bent at right angles down the cell to a point opposite the origin of the 

 first median nervule, and runs thence in a pretty regular curve to the 

 inner border in general parallel to the opposite side of the band. 

 1 9 ; Pike's Peak, W. H. Edwards. 



The specimen from which this description is drawn up is one some- 

 what rubbed, which should be taken into account in using the above 

 description. The fringe is nearly gone ; Edwards says, " alternate black 

 and whitish." The nervures may have been flecked with white, but no 

 trace remains, 



3. CMonobas Calais. 



Chionobas Taygete Edwards, Proc. Philad. Acad. 1S62, 57. 



Oeneis Taygete, 9 (not % ) Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. Lep. I. Pap. I. 



Nymph. IX. Oread. D. Nubilse 4, figs. .3, 4. 

 Expanse of wings $ 2.2 inches. 



9 . Head, thorax and abdomen black with ochraceous hairs. An- 

 tenna} reddish-yellow, annulated, especially above, with reddish-brown ; 

 club reddish-brown, black-tipped. Palpi with ochre-yellow hairs, min- 

 gled with longer black hairs, which latter are especially prominent be- 

 neath and at the tip. Femora dusky ; tibiae and tarsi pale yellow. 



Wings deep ochraceous-brown, flecked with black on the basal half 

 and along the costal and outer margin of both wings, eye-like spots b^J<:: \ n £-) 





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