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the black portion of the upper spot sehlom surpasses the width of the interspace in 

 the $ , and seklom fails of reaching- both borders, but in the $ , it generally extends 

 over fully one-half of the interspace below, and one-third of that above ; the lower 

 spot is generally of exactly the same size as the upper in the $ ; m the $ it is gen- 

 (■rally larger and varies from a size equalling the Avidth of its interspace to twice that, 

 encroaching equally above and below ; at three-fourths of an interspace's distance from 

 the outer border a faint, dusky, slightly wavy line subparallel to the border is generally 

 present, especially in the $ ; the outer margin is narrowly and faintly edged with 

 blackish and the fringe is nearly uniform dark steel gray, slightly paler at the tips. 

 Hind wings with a small round spot, often reduced to a dot, sometimes entirely absent, 

 sometimes as large as the smallest spots of the fore wing of the J , and when larger, 

 usually minutely pupilled with Avhite, a little beyond the middle of the lower 

 median interspace; in rare cases a smaller, blind, black spot occurs in the ^ in the 

 upper median interspace and even in the subcosto-median interspace, a little further 

 from the margin; wing edged and fringed as the fore wing, the fringe a little darker. 

 Beneath gray-brown, the $ a little paler than the $ , with faint, dark, metallic 

 green reflections. Fore wings with the apex somewhat hoary, especially in the $ , 

 and occasionally tinged with lilac ; the basal half of the wing, and to some extent 

 the whole costal border, but especially the discoidal cell, filled with very frequent, 

 sliort, slender, transverse, straight or but slightly curved, blackish streaks, and 

 the outer margin of the cell sometimes marked narroAvly with blackish; at the 

 outer limit of the striped portion is a transverse, sinuous, blackish stripe, similar to 

 that of alope, beyond which the wing is very slightly paler; the two black spots of the 

 upper surface are repeated beneath and with better defined 'margins, being always 

 conspicuously and equally, though not broadly, encircled with dull orange or yel- 

 lowish, edged with fuscous, more frequently yelloAV in the $ . They are considerably 

 larger than above, in the ? larger than in tlie ,? , subequal, the upper fully as broad 

 as the interspace and encroaching a little on the one beneath in the smaller spots, and 

 in the largest ones, in the $ , covering more than one-half of the interspaces above and 

 beloAv it ; the lower one is almost invariably of exactly the width of the interspace in 

 the J , although sometimes including within it also the colored bordering, but in the 

 largest spots in the $ crosses one-half of the interspace above and below. They are 

 both pupilled Avith a white dot, AAdiich in the $ is encircled with bluish atoms, often 

 extending as a pulverescent cloud toAvard the exterior margin of the black spot ; the 

 outer border of the Aving is marked Avith a submarginal blackish fuscous stripe, sub- 

 parallel to the outer border but more distant from it above than below, and averaging 

 about an interspace's distance ; there is also a slenderer fuscous line next the outer 

 margin, the margin itself is narroAvly edged Avith black and the fringe is slightly darker 

 than on the upper surface. Hind wings haA'ing generally the ground color slightly, some- 

 times considerably, paler, in a broad band occupying most of the outer half of the 

 Aving and, especially in the $ and toward the costal margin, bounded interiorly by a 

 rather narroAV, equal, tortuous, blackish fuscous streak, extending from the costal 

 margin to the submedian nervure, and more conspicuous in the $ than in the $ ; its 

 course is as in alope ; Avithin this there is generally an obscure blackish fuscous stripe 

 as in alope, and distant from the outer margin by an interspace's distance and parallel to 

 it is a subcontinuous, blackish fuscous streak. The Avhole Aving is covered very 

 profusely, more distinctly and heavily and a little more abundantly in passing toward 

 the base, Avith slender, tremulous, short, subconuected, slightly curving, blackish 

 fuscous threads, parallel to the outer margin; longitudinally suboval or rouudish, 

 small, black spots edged narroAvly, and more or less distinctly, especially in the J, 

 Avith dull umber orange, and usually pupilled Avith a white dot, occur, much more 

 abundantly in the ^ than in the $ , in one or all of the interspaces betAveen the upper 

 subcostal nervule and the submedian nervure. In the <? they generally occur in all 

 the interspaces ; in the ? they are generally present in the loAver subcostal and loAver 

 median interspaces ; that in the loAver subcostal interspace is usually oval, the others 

 usually round ; they are largest in the loAver subcostal and loAver median interspaces, 



