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almost exclusively flUiuia: the ai)ic.al half of tlio palpus, soiuotinies and especially in the 

 J so strongly infuscated as to be; nearly black ; the superior fringe of the middle joint 

 is blackish, white at the apex; the inferior fringe is white, but beneath exteriorly 

 there is a line of black scales which surpass the white ones a little ; the long, scattered 

 hairs on the sides of tiie palpus are ferruginous. Antennae blackish above, naked and 

 luteons beneath inwardly; (exteriorly witli a narrow, contin\U)US stripe of pure 

 ■white, expanding toward the upper surface on the basal half of each joint; club 

 similar to the stalk, l)ut more or less flecked with white at tlie base, beneath much 

 infuscated and with the apical 2-4 joints more or less conspicuously luteous, though 

 sometimes someAvhat infuscated at their bases. Tongue Inteo-fuscous, luteous at base 

 and tip, the sides everywhere blackish, excepting at tip. 



Thorax covered above with greenish tawny hair+i, beneath Avith hoary tipped, 

 brownish, vinous hairs, with a few intermingled hoary ones. Fore legs with a broad, 

 l)lack stripe down tlie front, narrowly edged on the outer side and occasionally a \ery 

 little on the inner with Avhitish or very pale yellowish; the lateral fringe of mingled 

 hoary and vinous hairs ; femora of other legs l)lackish, conspicuously llecked, espec- 

 ially on the upper half, with Avhitish or yellowish scales, just before the extreme tip 

 annulate with yellowish; rest of legs very pale buff or pale clay brown, the extreme 

 base of tibiae slightly blackish at base ; spines dark castaneous, darkest on the tibiae ; 

 spurs luteo-castaneous, beconung dark reddish at tip ; claws and paronychia nearly 

 uniform dark castaneous, the former blackish at tip; pulvillus black. 



Wings above blight fulvous orange, considerably tinged, especially on V)asal half, 

 with cinnamoneous in the $ , paler and Avashed Avith ochraceous in the $ . Fore ivinr/s 

 Avith the upper portion of the outer border slightly concave, the dentation nearly rec- 

 tangular; that at tip of loAver median nervnle rather prominent, well rounded; outer 

 margin strongly crenulate. The dark markings of the fore Avings are located precisely 

 as in P. comma, but they are sometimes a little heavier, the tAvo spots in the cell gen- 

 erally touch each other and are sometimes slightly blended ; the darker markings of 

 the outer half of the Aving are tinged more or less distinctly AA'ith a dark maroon 

 broAvn, often slight!}^ obscured by a cinnamoneous or ruddy hue; the extreme onter 

 border, especially in the female, is usually very narroAvlj'^ edged with a grayish bloom 

 of dull. pale, dingy, greenish scales; fringe blackish broAvn. interrupted broadly Avith 

 Avhite in the Interspaces. Hind icings (61 : 21) Avith the costal border more sinuate 

 than in the other species, the outer border strongly crenulate, the tail of the upper 

 median nervnle someAvhat longer than broad, broader at tip than at base; the projec- 

 tion at the tip of the upper subcostal nervnle large and broad, including the middle 

 subcostal nerAaile, crenulate at tip; that at the loAver angle quite large aud Avell 

 rounded. The co.stal border as far as the subcostal nervule mostly griseous, a 

 dusky, blackish, quadrate spot crossing the middle of the interspace, often obscured 

 bj^ the general tint ; the basal two-sevenths of the upper subcostal interspace occupied 

 by a black spot, having a straight exterior Ijorder, at the very base of the interspace 

 sometimes griseous or even slightly ferruginous ; another transA-erse, suboA'ate, black 

 spot occupies the upper half of the nervule closing the cell and the nervules above as 

 far as the subcostal nervure ; it is generally narroAver and sometimes obscure above ; 

 the bases of the tAvo median interspaced are occupied by black, the upper one always 

 distinctly, the lower sometimes obscnrelJ^ and Avithont reaching so far toward the 

 border of the wing ; in the upper median interspace the patch is about one-half as long 

 as broad ; the outer border of the Aving is margined broadlj' like the fore wings Avith 

 blackish ferruginous, deepening sometimes into black and limited by a trausAerse series 

 of rather small, irregular, roundish, dull ochraceous spots, Ijutthe dark color extends 

 also continuously past these spots, becoming more and more ferruginous but still dusky 

 as far again toAvard the base of the wing, Avhere it terminate^s in a vaguely defined line 

 subparallel to the outer border ; the extreme outer border is edged, rather more ijroadl)' 

 than in the fore Avings, and more distinctly in the $ than in the $ . Avith a grayish bloom, 

 in Avhicli the scales are more brightlv tinged and occasionally enlivenetl with tuAvuy. 

 Fringe nnich as in the fore wings. 



