LYCAENINAE: MITURA DAMON. 



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tllscoitlal cell, it boiuls ajjaiii, (luite .as siuUlciily, toward the outer iiuiri>iii and reaches, 

 on the nervule dividins the median interspace, its greatest proximity to the outer 

 border — from two-thirds to three-fourths the distance from tlie base to the outer 

 margin of the wing ; having crossed the lower median interspace as a strongly bent 

 crescent, opening outward, it is again bent abruptly, crossing the next interspace, as 

 near the base as the band at its origin, as a bent crescent, opening outward, and the 

 last, a little more distant from the base, as a curved streak, opening .and directed 

 inward ; the l)and terminates near the tip of the abdomen. Near the base of the wing 

 are two streaks, colored like the extra-mesial band, but with the position of the colors 

 reversed, one above the subcostal nervure and one in the discoidal coll ; the llrst is 

 parallel to the initial portion of the extra-mesial band and is from one-third to one- 

 half the distance from the base of the wing to the band ; the second is irregular in 

 position and direction; usually it is bent at right angles, the lower limb nearly obsolete; 

 sometimes it is merely a straight stripe, eitlier parallel to or bent away from the base 

 at an angle with the first streak ; it is always situated considerably further from the 

 base than the first and usually approaches the inward curve of the mesial band so as 

 to be separated from it by only the width of an interspace. A very little beyond the 

 outermost point of the extra-mesial baud there Is a row of four or five small, usually 

 transverse blackish spots, distinct only in the median and submedian interspaces, 

 lying subparallel to the outer border, each spot narrowly annulate with white atoms ; 

 in the lower median interspace, a little beyond the spot of this series, there is another 

 similar one, the space between filled with obscure orange ; and, similarly situated, next 

 the inner border, is a white spot, often bisected transversely by a black line ; the 

 outer margin of the wing Is distinctly bordered with white, interrupted at the 

 nervure tips; upon this, as far as the row of .spots, often partially enveloping them, 

 and lessening toward the anal angle (where it is often supplanted to a greater or less 

 extent by ferruginous scales) the wing is gray with blackish or ferruginous scales, 

 largely sprinkled with snow white atoms — the latter color often predominating in 

 annuli as broad as the interspaces, giving the appearance of obscure large spots seated 

 on the outer margin ; nervure tips on the lower half of the wing bordered with black ; 

 extreme anal angle with a minute black spot; basal half of fringe dull ferruginous, 

 middle faint milk white, tip pale brown; tails black, white-tipped, the longer with 

 some ferruginous scales at base ; inner edge with brownish red and pale yellowish 

 hairs. 



Abdomen dark brown above, at sides with scattered brownish yellow scales, 

 beneath grayish yellow. Male appendages (34 : 28) ; alations of upper organ pretty 

 regularly and broadly rounded, furnished with a slight, angular lobe at the upper base 

 of the lateral arms ; the inferior edge rather broadly angled; clasps a little sinuous, 

 produced to a needle-like point, the whole as long as the upper organ. 



Described from 20 3 , 19 9 . Length of longer tails, 1.5 to 3.25 ; aver. 2.25. 



Varieties. In one specimen, the portion of the extra-mesial band of the seconda- 

 ries, which crosses the medio-submedian interspace, separates Itself entirely from the 

 rest of the band, and forms an independent, longitudinal, slightly curved streak, 

 almost connecting the lower basal streak with the extra-mesial band. 



A single specimen from the south differs from all otherwise similar specimens from 

 the north in having the wings above of a uniform brown color, lighted up by no red- 

 dish tints, and in having the longer tail of the hind wings 5.5 mm. long, or fully twice 

 the length of the average northern specimens — in all which it agrees with the illnstra- 



