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AviLli a pale lilac corona: the spot in the incdio-snhnKnlian. when it occurs, is minute; 

 that in the lower median is larjjest and roundish or loui^itudinally oval, and with its 

 borderiui;' fully fills the width of the interspace; tliat in the upper median is next in 

 .size but does not fill the interspace ; that in the lower subcostal follows and the one 

 in the subcosto-median is not more tlian one-lialf the width of the interspace; the 

 inner edije of tiie spol in the ui^per median is at the middle of its interspace. The 

 outer mara;in is edncd narrowly with blackish and is followed very closely by a slender, 

 e<|ual stripe of ochraceous edited with dusky, parallel to the outer border and extend- 

 ini;; from the terminal branch of the subcostal to the submedian; it is followed by a 

 pale, rather faint, lilac stripe of about equal width. Frin<i;e nnich as above, but with 

 the darker colors prevailinsi' and a little enlivened Avith yellowish brown, nind xrinfjs 

 similarly marked ; a trans\crse, nearly straight, blackish fuscous, slender stripe 

 across the middle of the basal half of the wing, often broken a little at the median 

 nervure, crosses the subcostal and median nervures near the middle of the outer 

 half of the portion before the divarication ; the outer limit of the cell Is marked by a 

 distinct, dusky line; and beyond it is an extra-mesial, irregular, transverse, rather 

 narrow', dark brown stripe, starting from a little beyond the middle of the costal 

 border and passing in a pretty strong and regular curve, opening outward, to the 

 middle of the subcosto-median interspace in the micUlle of its basal fonr-liftlis ; thence 

 it turns inward again, passing in a somewhat irregular manner, but Avitli its general 

 course in a similar, though rather shallower curve , to the submedian at about an inter- 

 space's distance from the border; excepting in the subcosto-median and upper median 

 interspaces this stripe is subparallel to the intra-niesial one ; its outer limit is the best 

 detined ; outer half of the Aving Avitli a series of six longitudinally suboval, sometimes 

 roundish, well defined, black spots, often besprinkled lightly with dark yellowish, 

 rimmed narroAvly, but distinctly, Avith dark yelloAvish and generally pupilled Avith a 

 bluish Avhite dot; the uppermost is in the upper subcostal interspace, largest, 

 nearly round, occupying Avitli its rim the whole Avidtli of the interspace and situated 

 ratlier before its middle ; the others form a pretty regular curve, subparallel to the 

 outer border, and are subequal in size, that in the loAver median being usually largest, 

 that in the medio-submedian doulile and Avith tAvo pupils, sometimes separated by a 

 yelloAvish margin, and that in the subcosto-median smallest, and usually round, Avhile the 

 others are usually suboval; that in the upper median is situated a little beyond its 

 middle ; the uppermost by itself, and the others in common are enveloped in a faintly 

 purplish broAvn cloud, Avhich is again bordered by a rather faint, subdued bluish or 

 lilac, pale band merging into a pretty large spot betAveen the subcostal ocelli ; the 

 outer margin and fringe are as in the forewiugs. 



Abdomen above blackish broAvn.Avith broAvnish yelloAv, intermingled scales; beneath 

 pale, silvery gray. Male appendages (33 : 3) : upper organ constricted a little at the 

 extreme base of the hook, the latter bent doAvuAvard at an angle of about forty-five 

 degrees, its upper edge straight or ca'cu slightly concave until close to the tip, Avhich is 

 curved slightly doAvuAvard ; the loAver surface is somcAvhat arcuate in an opposite sense 

 and considerably excised just before the tip, so as to increase the curve at the tip ; the 

 hook is about as long as the centrum and four times as long as broad ; lateral arms 

 directed straight backAvards, curving slightly tOAvard each other, tapering regularly to 

 a fine point and more than half as long as the hook. Clasps narroAving rapidly for a 

 short distance by the excision of the upper border next the base, and bearing at the 

 upper, inner extremity of their tips a single, small, conical, iuAvard directed tooth, av Inch 

 appears simply as the continuation of the blade. 



