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externally with luteous ; other femora white, the apex above suftused with pale orange, 

 tibiae and tai'si pale orange, whitish externally; spines reddish yelloAv, duskier toM-ard 

 the tip of the tarsi ; spurs slightly paler ; claws f nsco-rubrous. 



Wings above pale orange fulvous, inclining to yellow, generally deepest in tint on the 

 outer third of the hind wings. Basal three-fifths of the costal border of the fore icings 

 broadly niarginod Avith Ijlacik Avhich is continued downward at its extremity, at the tip 

 of the costal nervure, in a broad, transverse belt, whose interior border is scarcely 

 removed from the extremity of tlie cell and which temunates suddeidy at the middle 

 median nervure, its apical nuxrgin often covering the basal third of the same; within 

 this belt are the following markings : at the base of the cell is au oblong oval, longitudi- 

 nal, annular black spot (enclosing, more or less distinctly, a fulvous pupil), its outer 

 extremity near the centre of the cell, its basal half generally obscureil by the grimi- 

 ness of the base ; 15elow the median nervure and resting upon it is an elongated w^edge- 

 sliaped spot, its apex at the base of the Aving, its base just within the first divarication 

 of the median nervure and crossing half the interspace, also enclosing a similarly 

 shaped, sometimes obsolete fulvous streak; seated upon its termination a chain of 

 three black, roundish links, nearly equal in size, but frequently obscured or partially 

 merged together, cross the cell; the extremity of the cell itself is marked by a fulvous 

 streak, bordered outside by the broad mesial demi-band and inside by a rather narrow 

 edging of black; just beneath this the lower half of the wing is crossed by a black 

 baud of irregular width, the smaller portion, sometimes broken from the other, con- 

 sisting of a black patch at the base of the lower median interspace, excepting the 

 extreme base and sometimes extending half Avay across the medio-submedian inter- 

 space, the other a broad patch seated just within the middle of the submedian nerA'ure 

 and extending half or fully across the medio-submedian interspace ; the inner border, 

 to the submedian uervure, as far as this point and sometimes to the outer border, 

 blackish. Sometimes all the markings meutioued are nearly all blended into a mass 

 of black, enclosing a few indistinct, irregular, fulvous patches. The outer border is 

 so broadly bordered Avith black as to leave, betAveeu it and the markings just described, 

 only a broad, transverse, fulvous belt, extending from just beneath the black costal 

 edge to the internal nervure, broken by the principal black subcostal nervules, and 

 generally by the other nervules which are often blackish fuscous, at least on the outer 

 half of the band ; at the costal margin the band has the width of one of the median 

 interspaces; it Avidens below this, the outer border being directed dowuw^ard and a 

 little more outAvard than the exterior margin of the mesial demi-band, and sAveepiug 

 around in a rather uniform curAC to the internal uerA'ure, at about the distance of an 

 interspace from the oiiter margin ; Avithin this, from the upper median nervule down- 

 Avard, is often seen a rather broad black streak, vaguely formed of luuules opening 

 outAvard, parallel to the neighboring black border and occasionally Avholly, often par- 

 tially, confluent Avith it, enclosing small, pale fulvous spots in the interspaces, Avhich 

 continue upAvard above the median nervure, as far as the costal margin, in a curving 

 row, parallel to the outer border of small, whitish spots or dots, occasionally obsolete ; in 

 the upper median interspace is a small, submarginal, often partially obsolete, pale ful- 

 vous lunule, and a second smaller one is sometimes seen in the loAver median interspace ; 

 fringe AA'hite, interrupted rather broadly with black at the nervure tips, especially at 

 the loAver subcostal nervule. Hind vjings Avith all the veins blackish, the inner border 

 yelloAvish, but excepting that, and a bi'oad, dirty, yelloAvish patch at the base of the 

 costal margin, nearly the Avhole basal half of the Avings, as far as a line which x'uns 

 from the costal nervure at the middle of the costal border in a very slight stift" curve, 

 often ii-regular and interrupted, passing the upper median interspace at its very base 

 and reaching the middle of the submedian nervure, is obscured with blackish, enclos- 

 ing a few irregular fulvous patches; within this, in clearer specimens, a feAV definite 

 markings can be distinguished ; a black reuiform annular spot, the inner half of Avhich 

 marks the extremity of the cell; the tip of the cell marked by an equilateral fulvous 

 triangle, just Avithin which a coarse, blurred chain of tAvo or three black links crosses 

 the cell, Avithin Avhich again the cell is fulvous, l)ut greatly begrimed Avith blackish 



