GRAPTA VI. 



GEAPTA SATYRUS. 



Grapla Safj/rus, (Sat'-y-rus) Edwards, Trans. Am. Eiit. Soc. 1870. 



INIale. — Expands 2 inches. 



Priniai'ie.s uioderately incised and dentated; tail long, tajiering; anal angle 

 produced. 



Upper side uniform yellow-fulvous, dusky at base, and spotted with blackish 

 brown; marginal borders narrow, often obsolete next margin, so that but a line or 

 stripe of brown remains within; a large subapical spot on costal margin of prima- 

 ries, aud a second covering the arc, sub-rectangular, dilated on costa; other spots 

 as in Comimt and allied sj^ecies; marginal border of secondaries preceded by a 

 series of irregular pale brown or ferruginous patches, usually more or less obsolete, 

 but sometimes crossing the entire Aving; a large blackish spot on middle of costal 

 margin, another in cell, the two often confluent, and a small sjjot at origin of the 

 upper median nervules; fringes dark brown, white in the emarginations. 



Under side mar])led in shades of brown, more or less suffused with yellow; 

 the basal area, occupying nearly half the wings, limited by a line that is angular 

 on primaries, wavy in secondaries, as in Comi/ia, on the inner side of which the 

 shade of brown is darkest; in cell of ])rimaries three elongated brown spots edged 

 by darker lines, the extra basal space more or less tinted with yellow, much covered 

 with fine, aljbreviated, ferruginous streaks; a|iex of primaries yellow-l)rown, some- 

 times tinted with olivaceous, enclosing three ferruginous points and limited below 

 by a ferruginous line running back from the angle of margin; sub-apical patch 

 greyish-white; incision bordered by a broad band which anteriorly is black and en- 

 closes luteous lunules; secondaries have a similar but abbreviated border next 

 above the tail, and posteriorly traces of such a border, obsolete; a sub- marginal 

 ferruginous or olivaceous arc from anal angle to tail, and similar colored suba])ical 

 patch; both wings crossed by an extra discal row of black dots, not complete except 

 at the extremities; silver mark shaped like an inverted C, large, open, often very 

 slender, barbed at lower extremity. 



Body fulvous above, beneath either yellow-grey or vinous; legs pale buff, jiro- 

 legs vinous, with blackish stripe on front: j^alpi buff below, fulvous at tip ; antennae 

 dark brown above, buff below; club black, buff at tip. 



