NYMPIIALINAE : EUPHYDRYAS PHAETON. 691 



Palpi reddish orange, lij^liter tlian tlie orange parts of tlie -wings, and above, Avliere 

 appressed to the front, as well as on the inner side of the basal joint, furnished with a 

 few very short yellowish liairs. Antennae black, nearly naked, with a few pale yel- 

 lowish scales externally above on the basal half of the joints, especially on the basal 

 half of the stalk, the basal four or live joints of the club luteo-fuscous. Tongue dull 

 orange, slightly infuscated excepting at the base and extreme tip; papillae (61:43) 

 situated only on the narrowed apex of the tongue, on the middle of the under surface of 

 each maxilla, just not touching each other, the basal ones, figured on the plate, sub- 

 cylindrical, five or six times longer than broad, the apical round-oval, the apical cup 

 large and partly lateral, with a cylindrical, bluntly pointed filament, fully as long as 

 the width of the basal papillae. 



Thorax covered above with black or brownish black hairs, slightly tinged with 

 olivaceous, the hinder pai't of each of the protlioracic lobes with a few sparse, pale 

 greenish yellow liairs ; beneath with short, brownish black hairs mingled with a few 

 grayish yellow liairs and with a longitudinal dash of pale yellow scales next the 1)ase 

 of each Aving, and a small roundish one in the middle of the side of the prothorax. 

 Fore legs dark reddish orange, the femora considerably flecked with fuscous ; middle 

 and hind legs dark reddish orange, the tibiae above with a yellowish tinge, and below 

 with scattered pale yelloAvish scales, the tarsi slightly infuscated. Spines orange 

 luteous; spurs blackish, tipped with dingy orange; claws and pai'onycbia blackish, the 

 former with tlie apical half dusky orange ; pulvillus blackish fuscous. 



Wings above blackish brown, marked with dark reddish orange and very pale straw 

 yellow. Costal border of the fore wings tinged Avith reddish at the extreme base, with 

 an orange spot in the middle of the cell just above the first divarication of the median 

 uervure; it is iiTCgular and variable in shape, about half as broad as the cell, and not 

 infrequently divided in the middle longitudinally ; another similar, although generally 

 smaller and more frequently divided spot is found at the tip of the cell; midway 

 betAveen these spots, upon the lower border of the cell, and not infrequently also upon 

 the upper liorder of the same, is a roundish or subtriangular, generally small, yelloAvish 

 spot; all these spots, and especially the yellow ones, are occasionally obliterated; 

 close to the outer margin of the Aviug is a series of eight orange, roundish or quadrate 

 spots, sometimes trigonal, the base outwards, one in each of the interspaces aboA'e 

 the submedian uervure, of nearly equal size, but the loAver ones generally broader than 

 long, while the upper ones are longer than broad; foUoAviug these interiorly, and gen- 

 erally separated from them a very little more widely than they from the outer margin, 

 is a sinuous row of pale straw yellow spots in the same interspaces, transA'erse and 

 linear sublunate in the $ , roundish or trigouo-sublunate in the $ , in both sexes ap- 

 proaching the outer border most closely in the subcosto-median interspace. At about 

 an interspace's distance within is another series of similarly colored spots in the 

 same interspaces, more sinuous than the pre\'ious, but nearly parallel to it; the spots 

 are larger and more distinct than in the previous row, particularly in the $ , and are 

 roundish or longitudinally subovate ; the next to the lower one is about in the centre 

 of the lower median interspace. At a similar distance Avithin this series is another 

 imperfect series, still more sinuous, but generally obsolete on the loAver half of the 

 wing, particularly in the $ , the upper two spots reduced to mere dashes, the succeed- 

 ing three as large as those in the previous row, but with ill-defined borders, those 

 beloAT, Avheu present, ill-defined and broken up ; midAvay between this row and the 

 outer orange spot of the cell is a transverse series of similar vague, often obsolescent 

 pale straw yellow spots, generally trigonal and longitudinal, situated in the subcosto- 

 median and succeeding superior interspaces. Fringe black, interrupted rather broadly, 

 sometimes abruptly, on the outer half at the interspaces with pale straAV yellow. Hind 

 roni(/s Avitli the markings of the under surface appearing above, to a greater or less ex- 

 tent, upon the basal half of the Aving. In the subcosto-median interspace just beside 

 the last divarication of the subcostal, and very seldom also upon the opposite side of 

 the last subcostal uervule, a slight, often obsolete orange spot; Avhen it is present, a 

 similar one is generally to be found in the costo-subcostal interspace just above the 



