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majority of examples have no tufts at all; some of the scales gray 

 tipped. In the males, primaries to the t. a. line darker brown, crossed 

 by indistinct wavy lines: the t. a. inwardly oblique, only a little 

 curved, quite sharply defined by a line of bright blue scales which 

 usually extend outwardly so as to form a powdery blue fascia merg- 

 ing gradually into the ground color. The small punctiform black 

 orbicular is usually included in 'this fascia. The reniform is lunate, 

 elongate, nearly upright, dusky and without definite outlines. T. p. 

 and s. t. lines run close together when both are present, but either of 

 them may be wanting and rarely are both of them equally defined; 

 usually one of them is black and very distinct from the inner mar- 

 gin, parallel with the outer margin to the middle of the wing. At 

 that point they form a rounded angle and the t. p. proceeds ;i little 

 irregularly, but on the whole obliquely to the costa a little beyond 

 outer third, while the s. t. curves in and then out. so as to reach the 

 costa a little before the apex. Usually it is the s. t. line that is black 

 and most obvious toward the costal area, and usually also the costal 

 area between these two lines is as dark as the base and darker than 

 the rest of the wing. Beyond the s. t. line is a powdering of bright 

 blue scales which may extend almost to the margin, interrupted at 

 the middle by a brown shading so as to give the characteristic ap- 

 pearance of two lunate blue areas. At the apex is a conspicuous 

 blackish blotch. There is a brown terminal line, parallel with the 

 small indentations of the outer margin, and the fringes have a brown 

 interline. Through the terminal area there are fine transverse brown 

 strigse that vary in number and intensity in the specimens. Sec- 

 ondaries brown, with inconspicuous darker transverse lines to the 

 geminate extra-median line, of which the outer element is usually 

 black, conspicuous, and extends rather evenly from the anal angle 

 to costal margin, forming a small ^ near the upper end of its course. 

 Beyond this line there is a powdering of bright blue scales, which 

 usually fills most of the terminal area, which otherwise is more con- 

 spicuously strigillate with brown. There is a pale line at the base of 

 the brown fringes. 



In the female there are no blue powderings, and the maculation is 

 on the whole much more obscurely marked. The t. a. line is rarely 

 marked, and the dusky basal shade extends to or even beyond the 

 middle of the wing and along the costa so as to include the reniform. 

 The costal area between t. p. and s. t. lines is well marked and often 

 a little purplish, and a broad shading of a similar tint is beyond the 

 s. t. line from inner margin to the middle of the wing. On the sec- 

 ondaries a similar shade is beyond the extra median line, and this 

 is sometimes traversed by lines of gray scales. 



Beneath, the sexes are practically alike: smoky brown, with more 

 or less obvious but generally vague transverse lines, and on all wings 



