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(lark lawny scales; frinsie itself bulf, with intonninuled black hairs, and alonjr the 

 middle of its inferior surface a row of dark tawny in inijled with fuscous scales; 

 the basal half of the middle joint sometimes white abo\'e; apical half of ])alpi dark 

 ferrn.irinous tawny, the frin,i>-es the same, but tipped especially toward base with pale or 

 moi'e yelloAvisli bull'. Antennae blackish l)rf>\vn above, the inner inferior surface, 

 exceptin<>' a few basal joints, naked and Inteons, the outer inferior surface and all the 

 inferior surface of the basal joints, white, the apical half outwardly, the basal joints 

 wholly, interrupted with blackish, on the apical half of the antennae minijcled with 

 fulvous; club blackisii. with a few obscure, dark, tawny scales, beneath blackish fus- 

 cous, the apical three joints luteous. Tongue pale Inteons, the ai)ical tAvo-thirds 

 infuscated at the edi>:es. 



Thorax covered above with silky olivaceous hairs, beneath with vinous-brown, 

 hoary-tipped hairs. Fore leijs yellowish bufi", marked down the middle with a black 

 strii)e; femora of other legs dusky, heavily flecked with pale scales, the slight inferior 

 fringe buft", edged at base interiorly with black; inner side of upper surface of tibiae 

 butt", the outer side and the tarsi whitish or very pale buft". Spines castaneous, darkest 

 on the tarsi, spurs similar, reddish toward tip. Claws dark reddish fuscous: parony- 

 chia pale fuscous ; pulvillus black. 



Wings above dark fulvous orange, marked with black and fuscous. Fore vnmjs (38 : lo) 

 with the upper portion of the outer border slightly concave, the dentation rather 

 less than rectangular, that at the tip of the lower median nervule rather prominent and 

 angulated .- outer border a little crenulate. The costal edge is rather conspicuously 

 yellowish, pretty uniformly and minutely interrupted with blackish; in the cell, at the 

 base of the median interspaces, antl in the middle of the medio-submedian interspace, 

 are roundish spots, and at the tip of the cell a transverse bar — all of which repeat 

 exactly in color, form and relative position the similar markings of interrogationis ; 

 there is, however, no spot (nor trace of a spot in any specimens 1 have been able to 

 examine) near the base of the subcosto-median interspace. The outer border, to the 

 depth of half an interspace — above the lowest subcostal to a much greater depth — 

 blackish, its inner limit often deeper than the rest, and its outer limit nan-owly edged 

 with a generally faint bluish bloom. In the middle of the lower two subc6stal inter- 

 spaces, midAvay between the last divarication of the subcostal nervure and the outer 

 border, are two black dots, pi'eceded by a faint yellowish tawny, minute crescent, and 

 followed by a short, slender, longitudinal dash of the same ; the yellow crescents pre- 

 ceding the dots are surmounted by a larger, more distinct, paler crescentic spot cross- 

 ing two interspaces, and forming a series with the others; the dashes beyond the 

 black dots form part of a series of submarginal fulvous lunules which occupy all the 

 interspaces below them, seated on the outer dark margin and only conspicuous when 

 the outer part of the wing is clouded somewhat with ferruginous; this series is 

 sometimes almost entirely wanting, at others is present to such a degree as to form a 

 transverse band, attenuated in the middle, but broad, and, on the heaviest marked 

 individuals, deepening into blackish above and below; it occupies the same position as 

 in interrogationis ; fringe black, most distinctly so at the nervure tips, broadly inter- 

 rupted in the interspaces with dusky fulvous or with whitish, the latter particularly in 

 the median interspaces. Hind wings (61 : 20) with the outer border somewhat crenu- 

 late, the tail of the upper median nervule longer than broad, a little incurved and 

 scarcely tapering, the projection at the tip of the costal slight, angularly rounded, 

 that at the upper subcostal rather prominently rounded. A transverse blackish bar 

 crosses the costo-subcostal and first subcostal interspaces, in the latter at a little greater 

 distance from the base than in the former, and removed by a little more than its own 

 width from the base of the interspace; parallel to it a narrow, transverse, blackish bar 

 reaches from near the base of the middle subcostal nervule, across the base of the 

 low^er subcostal to the middle of the vein closing the cell ; the extreme base of the 

 upper median interspace is tilled by a triangular blackish spot, about as large as the 

 central bar, and occasionally the lower median interspace is infuscated a little below 

 it; the outer two-fifths of the Aving is of a nuich darker ferruginous tint, sometimes 



