290 WM. H. EDWARDH. 



confluent, but composed of widely separated lunate spots; fringes 

 of primaries alternately fuscous and yellowish, in equal parts, of 

 secondaries yellowish, with fuscous only at the end of the nervules. 



Under side of primaries fiery red, except next apex, where the 

 whole area is chocolate-brown ; the bind mar^rin broadly bordered 

 with nearly same shade of brown ; the spots resting on this are 

 serrate or lanceolate, those on the apical half of the wing inclosing 

 well silvered spaces, the others brown ; there are also three sub-apical 

 silver spots, as in most of the allied species, and in addition, the 

 rounded black spots on the lower discoidal and two median inter- 

 spaces often have their outer edge* silvered; other examples differ in 

 that the color of the ground is cinnamon-red, and the area between 

 cell and median nervule to apex, buff, the nervules well covered with 

 red, and sometimes the whole buff space is washed with faint red; 

 there is then also a large brown sub-apical patch. 



Secondaries of one uniform color from base to margin, either dark 

 chocolate-brown, or deep ferruginous-brown, with no mottling of other 

 colors on the disc; occasionally, in the middle of the space between 

 the two outer rows of spots, there is a narrow strip which shows a 

 buff sub-color, washed by the prevailing shade of the wing; and 

 sometimes this buff is distinct; the spots conspicuous for size, and 

 well silvered; those of the outer row sub-triangular, edged above 

 with a broad border of the ground color; the second row, consisting 

 of eight spots, has the first three, and the fifth and sixth, nearly 

 equal, obovate ; the fourth small, triangular; the seventh sub-iunate; 

 the eighth on inner margin, sometimes wanting, but when present, of 

 same size and shape as the seventh; in the third row are five spots; 

 these, as well as the spots of second row heavily edged with black on 

 basal side; in the cell either one or two round spots, and below cell 

 an oval, all ringed with black; there are also three spots in the inter- 

 spaces next base; shoulder and inner margin well silvered. 



Body above red-fulvous; below, the thorax buff, with fulvous hairs; 

 the abdomen reddish-buff; legs reddish-buff; palpi buff, fulvous in 

 front and at tip; antennae black, fulvous on under side; club black, 

 tipped with fulvous. 



Female. — Expands 3.5 to 4 inches. Upper side darker than the 

 male, less bright, more obscured by brown at base; the marginal lines 

 heavy, and more or less confluent on primaries; the sub-marginal 

 spots also unite with the band, and are enlarged, and the fulvous 

 spaces inclosed arc not paler than the ground color elsewhere; all the 



