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dark reddish brown, soinoliines Inteo-castaneous ; spurs yellowish, tipped Avitli reddish 

 brown ; claws castaiieous, paler at l)ase, darker at tip and along the under edge ; parony- 

 chia yellow ; pulvillus black. 



Wings above dark fulvous orange, clouded on apical iialf Avitli dark cinnauione- 

 ous brown or dark ferruginous and spotted on basal half with ))lack. Fare wings 

 ■with upper portion of outer border straight, receding at an angle of about 4o" ; 

 dentation at tip of lower median nervule slight, angulatcd ; lower angle produced 

 consideral)ly downward, well rounded; outer margin scarcely crenulate, powdered at 

 base as far as origin of lirst median nervule witii scarcely perceptil)le darker scales ; 

 costal edge yellowish, faintly mai-morate with reddish; in the middle of the cell are 

 two rather small, roundish, slightly unequal, black si)ots, the upper smaller, subquad- 

 rate, transverse, depending from the subcostal nervure at its first divarication, 

 reaching from one-quarter to one-third way across the cell; the lower a little 

 further from the base, opposite a point midway between the first and second 

 median nervules, in the middle of the lower half of the cell, but not touching 

 the median nervure, roundish, or, if ovate, longitudinal, slightly larger than the 

 upper. Crossing the apex of the cell, the boundary veins of which pass through 

 the middle of its interior half, is a large transverse bar, reaching below the median 

 nervure, which it generally touches only by its inner edge, fading out above the sub- 

 costal nervure, of variable shape, but usually narrower below than above and in the 

 middle one-half as broad as its length. Subparallel to the median nervure, and distant 

 from it by nearly the width of tlie cell, is a nearly straight series of three pretty large, 

 su])equal, roundish spots in the median and raedio-submedian interspaces, the upper 

 and lower nearer the upper border of their interspace than the middle spot and gen- 

 erally touching it ; midway between the lower median spot and the base of the same 

 interspace is a more or less distinct blackish or reddish spot, the continuation of the 

 medio-submedian spot, but clearly separated from it by the fulvous nervule; in the 

 subcosto-median interspace, separated but a little from the transverse bar at the tip 

 of the cell is a longitudinal, triangular, blackish fuscous dash or spot, its borders 

 blurred, its apex outward and generally near the bottom of the interspace; it is about 

 as large as the upper median spot. Beyond this, and separated from the basal portion 

 by a limit which passes in a bent and curved direction from the costal margin, opposite 

 the base of the third superior subcostal nervule, to just beyond the middle of the sub- 

 costo-median interspace, and through the middle of the median nervules to the inner 

 border, where the submedian first approaches it closely, the Aving is clouded with the 

 cinnanioneous tint, infuscated and sometimes deepening into black by more or less 

 frequent black flecks, on either side of the median area, and enclosing a somewhat 

 oljscure, sinuous, submargiual series of orange fulvous spots in all the interspaces, 

 su))parallel to the outer border, their outer limits distant from the outer border by 

 the Avidth of an interspace below the subcostal area, and by double that distance in 

 the upper part of the wing; the spots subtriangular, their apices imvard, ill-defined, 

 of variable size, the upper ones often connected ; the outer border is sometimes a little 

 infuscated next their outer limits, and in the lower two subcostal interspaces generally 

 deepens to a minute blackish crescent, followed by a short fulvous line ; the whole outer 

 bonier is rather narrowly edged with a pale bluish bloom, broadest next the nervule tips, 

 and following them a short distance in the subcostal region ; fringe cinnamoneous, tinged 

 Avith dusky olivaceous in the middle of the Aving, interrupted Avith yelloAvish in the inter- 

 spaces in the upper half of the Aving and more or less overlaid by the bloom. Hhul 

 irhu/s Avith the outer border (61 : IS) very little crenulate, the tail of the upper median 

 nervule two or three times as long as broad, the sides nearly parallel ; the projection 

 at the upper subcostal nervule slight, a little angulated, that at the loAver angle small. 

 Color the same orange and cinnamoneous tints as on the fore wings ; the latter tint occu- 

 pying relatively more of the outer portion than on the fore wings, and so.metimes 

 sulliising nearly the Avhole of the Aving and particulai-ly the loAver half; there is a lai-ge 

 transverse black bar crossing the upper subcostal and most of the costo-sul)costaI 

 interspaces, broken by the u|iper suljcostal nervule. Avhich it strikes in the middle of 



