NV.Ml'lIAI.IXAK: HKENTIIIS MONTIXU.S. 603 



separated from tlic outer margin l)y half tlie width of an interspace, enclosing ))etween 

 themselves and tlie black margin a transverse series of sometimes continuous, ful- 

 vous, fusiform dashes; fringe as on the fore wings, ))ut witli less defined interrup- 

 tions. 



Beneatii : Fure vjinna pale fulvous, the black markings of the basal half of the 

 wing, togotlu-r with most of the round spots in the outer half, repeated beneath more 

 narrowly and vaguely, edged very narrowly and very faintly with fulvous scales, 

 deeper in tint than the general tone ; extreme base, especially along the median ner- 

 vure, begrimed with dusky scales; costal edge, nearly to the tip, gray with a ming- 

 ling of ochraceous and blackish scales; apex of the wing, half way to the extremity 

 of the cell, and the whole outer border, cinnamoneous, enlivened with powdery patches 

 of ochraceous, principally arranged in two transverse, oblique streaks, directed down- 

 ward and somewliat inward from the costal border ; at the tip of each interspace a 

 straight, slender, longitudinal, median, ochraceous streak, as long as the width, tci-mi- 

 nated by a broad, sagittate, sometimes obsolete, blackish or cinnamoneous spot; 

 fringe as on the upper surface. Hind loings deep cinnamon red ; a silvery white spot 

 near the base of the costal border at the tip of the precostal; near, but not quite at 

 the junction of the principal veins, a rather small, silvery white spot, the lower one 

 sometimes pretty large and round, and, like the one above it, edged with black exte- 

 riorly; in the middle of the cell a small, black spot, faintly edged with white; beyond 

 this a broad premesial, bent, slightly curved band, made conspicuous principally by 

 the irregular, broken, bordering, black lines; the interior border starts from the cos- 

 tal nervure and crossing the costo-subcostal interspace at an angle of forty-five degrees 

 to the subcostal nervure strikes the latter a little within its first bifurcation ; it starts 

 again within the cell at the same bifurcation, and following, in a general way, the 

 exterior limits of the cell, sweeps around to the first bifurcation of the median ner- 

 vule, crossing Avhich it reaches the inner border with a succession of sweeps having a 

 general direction at about right angles to the iiervules ; the exterior border is com- 

 posed of three parts ; the first crosses the costo-subcostal interspace in a direction 

 nearly parallel to the corresponding part of the interior border, but turned inward a 

 little more than it, so that, if continued, it would strike the last bifurcation of the 

 subcostal nervure; the second part, starting on the upper subcostal nervule at about 

 a third the distance from its origin to the outer border, traverses the subcostal inter- 

 spaces with a curve, usually shallow, opening outward in a direction generally at right 

 angles to the nervules; the third part, originating on the lower subcostal nervule at a 

 point as far removed from the second part as that is fi'om the first, has a general 

 direction parallel to the first part of the line, and passes by a series of irregular 

 broken lines, or shallow curves — the subcosto-median opening inward, the others out- 

 ward — to the inner border, a short distance before the tip of the internal nervure ; the 

 band itself is mostly cinnamoneous, nearly or quite as deep as the rest of the Aviug, 

 but the black borders are narrowly edged, within the band with ochraceous, and a few 

 ochraceous scales are scattered about, forming, in the part of the baud contained in 

 the subcosto-median interspace (excepting in immediate proximity to the median ner- 

 vure beyond its last divarication) and in the costo-subcostal interspace (excepting 

 next the costal nervure) large patches of ochraceous, which, next the interior border 

 of the band, pass into silvery white; in the subcosto-median interspace, the limit of 

 the two colors is marked by the extremity of the cell, which is narrowly edged with 

 black or sometimes cinnamoneous; there is a submarginal row of transverse, lozenge 

 shaped, silvery white spots, sometimes barely edged within with black, often partially 

 obsolete near the middle of the wings, always larger toAvard the costal border; these 

 are surmounted by large, tall, cinnamoneous spots, bordered Avith ochraceous scales, 

 but faintly, excepting in the upper median and adjoining half of the subcosto-median 

 intei'spaces ; upon these are seated a faint, curving row of narrow circlets of ochra- 

 ceous scales, parallel to the outer border, and enclosing rather small, cinnamoneous 

 spots, inclining to black, deepest in color in the median interspaces; about midway 

 between this series and the outer border of the intra-mesial band, and subparallel to 



