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in the $, Avitli ratlior (Tistjint, sliort, tninsvorso, iiicoiispuMioiis threads of blackish 

 fernis>-iii()iis, l)iit in tlie J it is coiisidenibly, !iUhonu;li rather <)l)senrely, variejrated ; 

 on tlie basal fourth of tlie ■wins, above the subcostal nervure, there is a large, ashy 

 patch, and dusky irrciiular streaks cross the basal half of the cell; the outer portion 

 is darkest and forms an indistinct, l)road, intraniesial band, Avhile the transverse threads 

 of the $ are also not wantin<r ; at the apex of the cell is a rather heavy silver}' comma, 

 generally rather broader in the J than in tlu; $ . strongly curved, sometimes rather 

 bent at its loAver inner side, opening toward the tip of the costal nervure, its extremi- 

 ties usually thickened, particularly in the $ , the upper exti-eniity just failing to reach 

 the subcostal nervule, the lower half following the upper median nervule from its 

 extreme base outward ; the outer half of the Aving in the $ is paler like the fore wing, 

 gradually gi'owing dark again towaril the outer margin, and with a very obscure, 

 almost ol>solete, series of blackish dots, arranged as in interrogationis ; in the <J it is 

 variegated as in the fore wing, but the paleness of its basal half is almost always 

 intensilied by a lilaccous hue. reaching nearly to the series of black dots which are 

 scarcely more noticeable than in the ? ; parallel to the outer border is a very obscure 

 series of yellowish spots, the counterparts of those on the upper surface, followed 

 above the middle of the subcostal area by slight ferruginous, below by blackish and 

 bluish, markings; the upper portion of tlij dontation, from its very base, is bordered 

 (Hjually, without regard to the nervures, by a band, as broad as the dentation, of 

 mingled black, fuscous and lilaceons scales; the other parts of the bortler are yelloAV- 

 ish olivaceous, more or less infuscated. Fringe as al)ove. 



Abdomen above black, heavily covered with fulvous hairs and tawny scales ; beneath 

 with mingled scale-like hairs of the colors prominent on the under surface of the 

 wangs. Ai)peudages of the male (33 : 1+) : upper organ much stouter at the base than 

 in the previous species, tapering only on the basal half, somewhat arcuate, pointed, 

 fully as long- as the body with an inferior tooth at base. Clasps twice as broad as long, 

 quadrate with rounded angles, the upper, hinder angle produced to a moderately long, 

 equal, incurved lobe, fully half as long as the clasp, twice as long as broad, rounded at 

 the apex, directed upward and backward ; upper border producing at base a long and 

 slender process, much longer than the clasp, broadest in the middle, tapering but 

 little toward the base but rapidly and pretty regularly toward the pointed apex, which 

 is distinctly excised on the inner edge ; at its base it is strongly bent and slightly 

 twisted so as to become horizontal and depressed, directed backward and slightly in- 

 ward; beyond it curves a little downward and at the middle curves strongly inward ; 

 interior linger long and slender, tapering a little on the basal half, approaching through- 

 out the hinder edge of the clasp and scarcely surpassing the upper edge. 



POLYGONIA COM.MA HARRISII. 



POLYGONIA COMMA DRYAS. 



Described from 8 5 7 9 , 



