GRAPTA. 53 



6. M. zerene Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 2me ser. X. 



Upper side bright fulvous, as in 31. cyhele, with the black mark- 

 ings as in the species of the same group. 



Under side of primaries fulvous, with the markings of the upper. 

 The summit has spots of a yellowish-white, and the edge is divided 

 by small crescents of the same color. 



Under side of secondaries ferruginous gray, with spots of yel- 

 lowish-white, as in the neighboring species, but not silvery ; the 

 spots of the middle and the marginal crescents are environed and 

 surmounted with ferruginous, more obscure than the general tint. 



Female a little larger than the male, with the under side ferru- 

 ginous gray, paler, and sometimes the marginal crescents a little 

 silvery. 



California. 



Boisd. 



GRAPTA KiRBT. 



Nearly allied to Vanessa, from which it may be distinguished by 

 its more excised and angular wings, and its less hairy palpi. All 

 the known species have the upper surface more or less brightly 

 fulvous, spotted with black ; lower surface crowded and veined 

 with different shades of brown ; the secondaries have a more or 

 less angular silvery or pale golden mark, resembling sometimes 

 the letter L or C, whence the name 0-album, &c. &c. 



The larvce, like those of the neighboring genera, have the second 

 and third thoracic and also the abdominal segments armed with 

 spines, which are set round with whorls of delicate bristles. 



Pupa angular and tuberculated ; head rather deeply notched, 

 generally brown or grayish-brown, with silvery or golden blotches. 



1. G. interrogationis F. E. S. Ill, 1, 78. G. auretirn Cram. Figured 

 in Cram. pi. 19. Sm. Abb. I, pi. 2. Boisd. et Lee. pi. 51, p. 192. 



Upper side of all the wings fulvous or ferruginous fulvous, with 

 seven or eight unequal black spots, and the outer edge sometimes 

 brown, obscure, and sometimes of a ferruginous tint, mingling in- 

 sensibly with the ground color. 



