GRAPTA IL 



GRAPTA COMMA. 1—5. 



Grapta Comma, Harris, Iiis. Mass. C-alhitm, Fitch, New York Reports, 1856. 



Male. Expands 2.3 inclies. 



Primaries deeply incised; hind margins slightly dentated; a broad tail of 

 medium length on middle of secondaries. 



Upper side bright fulvous; primaries have a black marginal band of medium 

 width, dilated at apes, edged within by a series of jiale yellow spots; on inner 

 margin a ferruginous patch joins the marginal band,- a similar sub-apical patch on 

 costa ; on costal margin a broad sub-rectangular black patch ; within the cell two 

 small rounded black spots transverse, and at right angles to these three others in 

 the submedian and first and second median interspaces; cosial edges of both wings, 

 and the incision of inner margin of primaries, sprinkled with black and yellow or 

 pale fulvous. Secondaries have the outer limb deep ferruginous and the rest of 

 wing to base mottled with ferruginous and fulvous; a sub-marginal series of small 

 yellow lunules; on costal margin a large, elongated black sjiot, another of small 

 size at base of first sub-costal nervule and a third at base of second median; fringe 

 of both wings fuscous, whitish in the emarginations ; the margins themselves nar- 

 rowly edged with purplish. 



Under side mottled in shades of brown and yellow; the basal S2^ace limited 

 by a line, angular on jirimaries, wavy on secondaries, next inside which the color 

 is darkest, next base greyish; in cell two long, narrow, dark sjiots; extra basal 

 space greyish; apex of primaries dark brown, often castaneous, enclosing on the 

 edge a yellowish spot or lunule; sub-apical ^^fitcli grey -brown inclining to white; 

 along the incision a broken or wavy strijie of metallic blue, anterior to which is a row 

 of black points, distinct at the extremities and the jiosterior ones enclosed in oliva- 

 ceous patches; costal edge sjiecked with brown, grey and buff. On secondaries 

 the extra basal space is mottled with brown, grey, olivaceous and yellow ; the sub- 

 apical 2iatch olivaceous or castaneous, as is also the curved stripe extending from 

 this patch to anal angle; along the margin a line of metallic blue lunules partly 

 sejDarated from the j^atch and stripe by yellow; a row of black points as on jirima- 

 ries; the silver C varies in size and form, being thick, rounded and barbed, or deli- 

 cate and open with no barb; occasionally also interrupted as in Intcrrogationis ; 

 the whole surface of both wings inscribed with fine brown abbreviated lines. 



