GRAPTA I. 



GRAPTA SILENUS, 1—4. 



Grapin Silenii.<. Echvanls. Tniiis. Am. Kiit. Soc. 1870, p. 15. 



Male. — Expands 2.2 inches. 



Primaries iiuxlerately incised ; slightly dentated ; tail long, l)road, and straight ; 

 a prominent dentation between tail and inner angle, which last is much produced. 



Upper side deep red-fulvous, clouded with brown-ferruginous next base of 

 each wing and on disks, and spotted with black ; hind margins have a broad com- 

 mon border of nearly uniform w^idtli, black with a ferruginous tint ; on the inner 

 side a series of separate, pale fulvous spots, yellowish next apex of primaries, 

 irregular in size, lanceolate ; primaries have a large sul)-apical ferruginous patch 

 on costal margin, another near inner angle, a bi'oad black spot from costa cover- 

 ing the arc, two oval spots in cell placed transversely and sometimes conduent, 

 two others in first and second median interspaces, and a large sub-ovate spot on 

 sub-median interspace extending partly over the one next above. 



Secondaries have the entire costiil margin brownish-black, a large irregular 

 black patch on disk l)etween upper In'anch of sub-costal and the median nervure ; 

 a brownish-ferruginous patch at base of the upper median nervules ; the whole 

 extra-discal area suftiised with ferruginous, passing imperceptibly into the mar- 

 ginal border ; fringes fuscous, with a very little white in the emargiiiations. 



Under side mostly in shades of black or Idackish-brown, the entire surface, ex- 

 cept wdiere deep black prevails, covered with tine, abbreviated streaks darker 

 than the ground ; apex of primaries fliintly tinted with olivaceous ; costal margin 

 brown, with a fow gray scales near apex, a whitish patch beyond extremity of 

 cell and a smaller one nearer base ; base of primaries brown, of secondaries 

 brown next costa, black towards abdominal margin ; the disks crossed by a com- 

 mon, broad, Idack band, very irregular in its exterior outline, on lower jJtirt of 

 secondaries merging into the black basal area, outside the band, on primaries and 

 upper part of secondaries, grayish-white for a little space, densely streaked, and 

 beyond to margin blackish-brown ; the extra-discal points nearly or quite lost on 

 the dark ground ; sub-marginal crescents Ijlack, obsolescent, often wanting alto- 

 gether ; in the cell of primaries three elongated, narrow, deep black spots, two of 



