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tiiiiato snt)(.'<)st;il interspace; tlic lower is in tlic lower median interspace, is generally a 

 little, or in the $ often considerably, lars^er than tlie npper spot, scarcely occupies the 

 ■whole -width of the interspace (^), or j^enerally eiicroaciies a little and o(|nally on the 

 nciffliboriiia; interspaces ( $ ) ; at about half an interspace's distance; from, and parallel to, 

 the outer liorder is a rather narrow, faint, dusky line Avhich eda;es the yellow patch on 

 its lower iialf and in some instances is composed of a scries of waves, althouf^h usually 

 straiiiiit: betwei'U it and the upper i)art of the yeUow patcii tlie brown is generally a Ut- 

 ile paler : extreme outer margin edged faintly with l)lackish ; fringe nearly uniform rather 

 pale slaty l)rown. IIiit<lv'iii(/s Avitli a small round spot usually present, apparently more 

 fri'(iuently in the J than in the $ . in the middle of the outer two-thirds of the lower 

 median interspace, never occupying more tlian half its l)readth and sehlom so much as 

 a third of the same ; it is faintly and very narrowly rimmed witli ochraceous and minutely 

 pupilled with bluish white; occasionally there is a minute blind black spot in the other 

 median interspace, at a little more than half an interspace's distance from the outer Ijorder 

 and nearly parallel to it is a faint, narrow, dusky, slightly wavy line; the outer margin 

 is edged more narrowly with dusky, repeated at a very slight distance inward, the space 

 between being tinged faintly with yellowish ; fringe as on fore wings. 



Beneath gray-l)rown, the $ a little paler than the J. Fore u-inr/s Avith the apex 

 somewhat hoary, especially in the $ . and occasionally tinged slightly with lilac: the 

 basal portion of the wing as far as the broad yelloAv patch, which is I'epeated ))eneath, 

 and especially the discoidal cell, tilled with fre(iuent, short, slender, transverse, straight 

 or but slightly curved, intercalated, l^lackish streaks, and the outer margin of the cell 

 marked narrowly with lAack; the interior border of the broad yellow band is edged, 

 not veiy narroAvly, with blackish fuscous; the black spots in the lower subcostal and 

 median interspac^es are more distinct from being better defined than above, of about the 

 same size as there, the pupil, especially in tlie $ , larger and in the latter having a ten- 

 dency to expand tOAvard the outer limit of the spot; a blackish fuscous stripe bor- 

 dering the lower portion of the broad yelloAV patch extends upw\ard nearly to the 

 costal border, subparallel to the outer margin ; the outer margin is narroAvly edged 

 by blackish fuscous, and is followed at a very short distance by a thread of the 

 same ; fringe as on the upper surface, a little paler on the loAver half of the wing. 

 Hind icings generally having the ground color slightly, sometimes considerably, 

 paler in a broad band occupying most of the outer half of the wing, and, especially 

 toward the costal margin, bounded interiorly by a rather narrow, equal, tortuous, 

 blackish fuscous streak, extending from the costal margin to the submedian nervure ; 

 its course is from a very little beyond the middle of the costal margin, over the 

 costo-subcostal and upper subcostal interspaces, transversely in a direction toward the 

 tip of the cell, then in a strong and rather regular curve, convexity outward, to 

 the middle of the loAver median interspace near its base (thus passing a little beyond 

 the tip of the cell), and then, resuming very nearly its former direction, it terminates at 

 about the middle of the outer four-tifths of the submedian nervure ; Avithin this there 

 is generally an obscure, blackish fuscous, transverse stripe, subparallel to the median one, 

 at a little less than half Avay from it to the base of the Aving; and next, and subparallel 

 to, the outer border at nearly an interspace distance from it is often another discontin- 

 uous slenderer one ; the Avhole Aving is covered pretty profusely and uniformly Avith 

 very slender, tremulous,short, slightly curving, blackish fuscous threads, in broken con- 

 tinuity, but having a general direction parallel to the outer border; roundish or sub- 

 oval black spots, generally edged distinctly, uniformly, and very narroAvly Avith dull 

 orange and minutely pupilled Avith Avhite, occur, more frequently in the J than in the 

 $ , in several of the interspaces lietAveen the upper subcostal nervule and the sub- 

 median nervure; they are generally largest, though seldom more than half the Avidth 

 of an interspace, in the loAver subcostal and median interspaces and smallest in the upper 

 juedian interspace ; they are most frequently absent from those in Avhich the spot is 

 normally smallest, and occasionally, in the ?, they are altogether Avanting ; Avlien all 

 are present they are situated in a slightly sinuous line ; that in the subcosto-median in- 

 terspace is situated in the middle of the basal half, that in the loAver subcostal a little 

 further removed from the outer border ; that in the costo-subcostal interspace nearer 



