8 JOHN B. SMITH. 



and brown mottlings, which are scattered basally, but fill almost all 

 beyond the t. p. line. The sexual pieces of the male are not quite 

 like the type of the scries: the harpes bend abruptly to form a nar- 

 row tip, which is set with hair rather than spinules; but the clasper 

 is as described and set with teeth like a file. 



Inqticesita and upeciosissima have the t. p. line geminate and even, 

 both parts being almost equally distinct. The median shade line is 

 rather prominent and distinctly angulated near the middle of the 

 wing. The veins are all dusky and this, with the fact that the angle 

 of the t. p. line is obtuse and formed near the middle of the wing, 

 give I he species a characteristic appearance. 



Inqua situ is rather a small species in which the ordinary spots are 

 rarely white. The reniform is rather feebly marked, the orbicular 

 is round or ovate, and the claviform is of the usual decumbent 

 ovate form. 



Speciosissima is much larger — one of the largest in the genus — 

 and in all the specimens I have seen the ordinary spots are white, 

 upright and linear. Even the claviform is of this unusual shape; 

 hence the species should be an easily recognizable one. 



Rigida is pale, straw yellow to the t. p. line, beyond which it is 

 purplish brown, except at the apex, which is also yellow. In form 

 of the t. p. line it agrees with harrisii. 



In six species besides rigida the t. p. line on the primaries runs 

 outwardly from its inception on the costa through the costal cell; 

 then bends sharply on the subcostal and runs evenly and obliquely 

 to the hind margin. 



Harrisii, verona and purpurifascia are red or red-brown species. 

 Nitela, nelita and necopina are mouse-gray. 



Harrisii has both parts of the t, p. line present, the inner being 

 even and parallel with the outer, which is not fasciate. The space 

 beyond the t. p. line is strongly shaded with purplish, except at the 

 apex, and this shade sometimes extends over the entire wing. The 

 ordinary spots are usually white. 



Verona is a smaller and more brightly colored species with the 

 markings as before, except that only the s. t. space is at all shaded 

 with purplish. The ordinary spots are as before. 



Purpurifascia has the inner portion of the t. p. line obsolete or 

 very faint, while the outer is broad, distinct and developed into a 

 real purplish band or fascia. This purplish shade usually extends 

 through the s. t. space and may include the terminal space as well, 



