20 GROTE AND ROBINSON. 



Anterior wings, acute ; above, rather dark purple ; fringes, long, yel- 

 low. Centrally, the wing is crossed by three approximate, broken, 

 irregular, transverse, yellow bands, which do not extend over the cos- 

 tal region. The costal edge, apically, is yellow. The outer of the cen- 

 tral yellow bands appears to enclose a sub-terminal sinuate line of the 

 ground-color of the wing, and angulated inwardly below the middle. 

 Posterior wings, silky, light purple, becoming paler and somewhat ci- 

 nereous towards the base and along external margin ; an interrupted, 

 oblique, yellowish streak, emanates sub-terminally within anal angle, 

 and is obsoletely continued to costa at within apical angle ; fringes, 

 yellowish. Under surface, pale testaceous; anterior wings, broadly 

 shaded with obscure purplish along costal and external margins ; cen- 

 trally, the markings of the upper surface are obsoletely indicated ; 

 fringes, yellow. Posterior wings, faintly shaded with light purplish 

 along costal and external margins; an obsolete, sub-terminal purplish 

 line and discal spot; fringes, yellowish. 



Ej-jmnse, % 9 , 0.65 — 0.70 inch. Length of hoJi/, 0.30 — 9.40 

 inch. 



Hahitat. — Atlantic District. (Mass. to Penna. !) 



A somewhat variable species in the appearance of the central yellow 

 markings of the upper surface of primaries, and of common occurence. 



Botys ganerosa, n. sp. (Plate 2, fig. 10, % .) 



Head, palpi and thorax, above, dull obscure blackish ; abdomen, 

 blackish, the segments narrowly edged posteriorly with yellowish. Be- 

 neath, the palpi, legs and corporal parts are whitish testaceous, 

 silky. 



Anterior wings, dull obscure blackish, shaded obscurely and largely 

 with dull brownish over the middle; two transverse dull black lines; 

 the sub-basal acutely dentate, the last outward inflection the most jtro- 

 minent; the sub-terminal, oblitjue, finely dentate, inwardly inflected 

 below the middle of the wing. K squarish, yellow, discal spot. At 

 the costa, the sub-terminal transverse line is broadly bordered out- 

 wardly by a yellow band which, below the first median nervule is ob- 

 soletely and quite narrowly continued to internal margin. Terminally, 

 the wing is dark colored, and there is a faint series of black nervular 

 marks before the external margin, on which latter rest a terminal se- 

 ries of interspaceal dark dashes obsoletely separated; fringes, dark, 

 paler at their outer extremities. Posterior wings, black or blackish ; a 

 yellowish discal spot, and the base shows a few scattered yellowish 

 hairs; a very broad and evident median yellow band, widest superiorly 



