182 THE IJUTTERFLIKS OF NEAN' EKULANl). 



size, nearly rouud and a little smaller ; that in the loAver subcostal, again a little smaller, 

 with its border fills the intei'space and is round or nearlj' so ; that in the subcosto- 

 mcdian is again smaller and is sometimes reduced to a mere dot with a halo around it ; 

 the uppermost never becomes more than this and sometimes is reduced to a pale dot ; 

 directly above these, in two of the narrow suljcostal interspaces are pale vague spots 

 and, excepting on either side of them, all tlie space between tlie irregular mesial stripe 

 and the darker margin of the outer border is a little paler than tlie basal half of the 

 Aving, with a slight .vellowish suffusion ; it is palest just outside of tlie mesial stripe 

 and especially in rather a broad patch in the subcostal and costal area ; there is a narrow 

 dark margin less than lialf an interspace in width next the outer border, often 

 Avith a paler thread running through it and followed, at an interspace's distance from 

 the margin, by an obscure dusky stripe ; fringe pale, interrupted Avith basal broad dusky 

 AvaA'es, occupying one-third of the base in the interspaces and more than tAvo-thirds 

 at tlic norvure tips. Hind loiuf/s Avith a faint dusky thread closing the cell and an 

 almost e(|ually faint. narroAV, dusky, transverse stripe just Ijeyond it, running from the 

 upper subcostal nervule at one-fourth the distance from its base in a Inroad curve, its 

 concavity outAvard to the ui)per median nervule, at about the same distance from its 

 origin ; it then turns at right angles toAvard the inner border and is lost before cross- 

 ing the median interspaces ; in the outer half of the Aving there is a transverse, strongly 

 curving, regular series of five very large roundish blackish spots, encircled Avith pale 

 dull yelloAv in the subcostal, subcosto-median and median interspaces, subparallel 

 to the outer border; those in the subcostal interspaces are equal and much larger than 

 the others, the black portion alone occupying the Avidth of the interspace and often 

 surpassing it slightly at the loAver edge ; the upper is in the middle and the loAver in 

 the middle of the outer tAvo-thii*ds of its interspace ; those in the median interspaces 

 are subequal, the upper a little the larger, longitudinally suboval and, Avith their encir- 

 clement, scarcely equalling, especially in the loAver median, the Avidth of the interspaces 

 in Avliich they occur : the upper is a little beyond the middle of its interspace and the 

 loAver is at a slightly less distance from the outer liorder ; that in the subcosto-median 

 is smallest, equalling, Avith its halo, the interspace and is a little nearer the outer border 

 than any others ; the yellowish margin to the tAvo and sometimes the three upper 

 spots is often blended to a greater or less degree ; the outer margin is narroAvly edged 

 Avith dusky, folloAved at a very short distance by a dusky thread and that at a similar 

 distance by a broader yet slender stripe of dusky, the inner border of Avhich is generally 

 indistinguishable; fringe as on the foi'e Avings. 



Beneath pale gray-broAvn, Avitli pale pearly violaceous reflections. Fore iviugs Avith 

 a slender, transverse, curving, Ijlackish fuscous stripe crossing the Avhole Aving, its 

 outer edge striking tlie first divarication of the median nerA'ure ; the outer limits of 

 the cell are marked narroAvly Avith dusky and beyond it is an irregular, slender, 

 transverse, blackish fuscous stripe, crossing the whole Aving as far as the submedian 

 nervure, its outer limit Avell defined, its inner much less so, and betAveen it and the tip 

 of the cell, the subcostal ncrvules marked Avitli dusky ; its outer border passes from 

 the costal border to the loAver portion of the subcosto-median interspace in a nearly 

 straight line, often bent outwards a very little at either end. parallel to the outer limit 

 of tlie cell and distant from it by its OAvn Avidtli at tip, reaching its outermost limit at 

 about one-third the distance from the base of the interspace to the Aving ))order; 

 from here it i)asses in a pretty regular, and rather ileep curve, the concavity outwards, 

 to tlie loAver median nervule a very little beyond its middle, and thence passes in nearly 

 a continuous course to the submedian ; it is immediately folloAved exteriorly by a pale 

 or Avhitish field, broader than itself but quickly merging into the ground color, and 

 suftused Avitli lilac or A'iolaceous ; beyond the middle of the outer half of the Avmg 

 is a nearly straiglit, but slightly curving roAV of four or five black ocelli, the concavity 

 outwards, subjiarallel to the outer border, in the loAvest subcostal, subcosto-median, 

 median, and somethnes the medio-submedian interspaces ; they are encircled not very nar- 

 roAvly Avith pale yelloAvish and the larger ones usually pupilled Avith a Avliite dot ; they are 

 b.irely enclosed in a common, faint, dusky field, surrounded faintly anil not broadly 



