NYMPIIALIXAE: PIIYCIODKS TIIAROS. G31 



the lumiles are always faint, and very fi'equently, especially in the male, altogether 

 imperceptible, and arc immediately followed, above tlie upper median interspace, by a 

 broad, transverse blaclv patch, confluent with the mai'ginal band, wlien the lunules are 

 absent; below the upper median interspace by a similar broader patch, its interior 

 portion exteniiing somewliat into the upper metlian interspace. Tlie ui)per patch is 

 followed interiorly by an orange patch, broadening downward, and distinct only on the 

 two lower submedian interspaces, followed in its turn by a transverse, ti'iangular 

 black patch, often attenuated below, reaching the middle of the subcosto-median 

 interspace, and having an interior border subparallel to the exterior border of the 

 mesial band, and separate from it by about twice the width of an interspace; aliout 

 jnidway between the interior border of the lower snbmarginal patch and the exterior 

 boi'der of the lower portion of the mesial band, is a zigzag stripe, generally slender, 

 sometimes, in the female, and especially toward the inner border, moderately broad, 

 with a bend in each interspace and at eacii nervule; it runs from the upper median 

 nervule, sometimes connected with tlie lower extremity of the upper triangular black 

 patch, sometimes with that of the upper portion of the mesial stripe, sometimes 

 betAveen them to the inner border, and has a general direction at right angles to the 

 nervules ; a small black spot is sometimes seen (especially in the female) in the 

 medio-submedian interspace, midway between the zigzag stripe and the submarginal 

 black patch; fringe l)lackish broAvn at base, beyond varying from blackish brown to 

 dirty white, ratlier broadly interrupted with brownish at the nervure tips, excepting 

 at the apex of the wings. Base of the hind loings, half way to the first divarication 

 of the subcostal and median nervures, and the basal half of the medio-submedian 

 interspace, blackish; outside of this are two pairs of transverse, often tremulous 

 black lines, each set forming the borders of an open band; tlie interior band, often 

 partially obscured by the duskiness of the base, crosses the cell at the middle of the 

 inner two-thirds, forming, approximately or exactly, the figure 8; the exterior starts 

 in the costo-subcostal interspace by a coarse, arching streak, spanning the first divari- 

 cation of the subcostal nervure ; the inner line continues along the apical boundary of 

 the cell, marking its limits, while the outer crosses the interspace beyond it at about 

 the distance of the width of an interspace, sometimes uniting at both ends with the 

 inner line; with opposing curves, and forming a still open band of similar Avidtli, the 

 two lines cross the lower median interspace just within tlie second divarication of the 

 median nervure and terminate. The outer border, for about the width of an inter- 

 space and a half, is margined with black, but is enlivened at about the distance of an 

 interspace from the border by a series of delicate, often partially obsolete, greenish 

 yellow or faint orange lunules, opening outward; scarcely removed and equidistant 

 from the interior mai'gin of the black border, is a series of seven small black spots, 

 minute and round above, growing larger and more transverse toward the inner border; 

 a little further removed inward from this series than this is from the black bordering, 

 is a vague, sinuous, black line, subparallel to the outer border, generally obsolete for a 

 considerable space in the middle of the wing, increasing in importance as it passes 

 toward either border, terminating next the inner border at the internal nervure, which 

 it follows downward to the outer bordering, — next the costal border, foUov.'ing in a 

 similar manner the costal nervure ; between this line and the outer border the veins 

 are black ; fringe as in the fore wings. 



Beneath : Fore icings pale orange, more or less distinctly tinged with ochraceous 

 along the costal border, at the extreme apex and in the middle of the outer border; 

 the mesial black stripe is repeated beneath with equal or neai'ly equal distinctness, as 

 is also the triangular black patch depending from the costal border about midway 

 between the mesial stripe and the apex of the wing; it is sometimes followed, espcc- 

 tally in the female, by a slender stripe of whitish scales; ci'ossing the medio-subme- 

 dian. tiie lower median, and sometimes, less broadly, the upi)er median interspace, is 

 a broad, transverse, black stripe; the other black markings of the upper sui-face, and 

 especially on the basal half of the Aving, are indicated beneath by a greater depth of 

 orange; a transverse, wavy, cinnamoneous line, arched inward in each interspace, 



