68 WM. H. EDWARDS. 



abdomen buff; legs fulvous; palpi white furnished in front with long 

 fulvous hairs that are black at tips ; antennae fuscous above, fulvous 

 below, greyish next club ; club black, tip fulvous. 



Female. — Same size. Color pale, the submarginal spots still paler 

 than the ground, rather a sordid white, as are also the spots across 

 disk of secondaries; the marginal lines confluent and the lunules 

 heavy, especially on secondaries; otherwise like male ; under side like 

 male, the lighter portions of fringes nearly white. 



This lovely species was first brought to notice by Mr. Mead, who 

 took a single male in perfect condition at Turkey Creek Junction, in 

 Colorado in 1871. Subsequently a female was brought in by the 

 Hayden Yellowstone Expedition, taken the same season. 



Gs°apta Hylas, n. sp. 



Male. — Expands 1-7 inch. Upper side dull red fulvous, fadiDg to- 

 wards margins ; hind margin of primaries broadly bordered with 

 dark brown, on the anterior edge of which is a series of yellow den- 

 tations ; on costa a ferruginous sub-apical patch and another on in- 

 ner margin near angle; spots as in Faunus ; secondaries have a dif- 

 fuse fuscous border extending over one-third the wing, fading gradu- 

 ally into fulvous on disk, and enclosing a sub-marginal series of small 

 yellow spots; a large black spot on costa and a small one on arc, the 

 two being often joined and sometimes confluent ; abdominal margin 

 much obscured by brown; edges of hind margins covered with yellow 

 scales; fringes white in the emarginations, fuscous at tips of nervules. 



Under side marbled in shades of grey, tinted with brown near base 

 and throughout streaked with black or fuscous ; the basal space limited 

 on disk by a band with outline as in Faunus ; in cell three spots dis- 

 posed as in Faunus; the extra-basal space nearly uniformly grey, 

 mottled with darker shades; the usual sub-apical patch on primaries 

 scarcely lighter than the rest; across the disks a complete series of 

 brown points which on primaries are mostly edged with grey-white scales, 

 but on secondaries are nearly lost in the grey shade of the wing; incis- 

 ion of primaries bordered by dark-brown or blackish lunations; on sec- 

 ondaries these are broken into separated serrated spots from apex to 

 tail and often more or less wanting ; discal mark silvered, very slender, 

 curved, open, not barbed but attenuated, especially the lower limb 

 which equals the other in length. 



Body fuscous above dark grey tinted with brown below ; legs and 

 palpi grey; antennae dark above, fuscous below; club black, tip 

 yellow. 



