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Thorax covereil iibovo with brownish fulvous, olivaceous and dusky hairs, tlic pala- 

 gla mostly with fulvous and reddish fulvous ones; beneath covered with profuse, 

 dollcate. white hairs. Femora pearly wliitc ; tibiae and tarsi dull, scarcely dingy white, 

 witli a blacl<ish brown spot at the l)aso and near tlio tip of tlie upper surface of all 

 the tarsi and at the middle of the same on the middle anil hind tibiae, as Avell as on 

 the middle half of the basal tarsal joints and the l)asai half of the other joints. 

 Spines Inteons, claws dark reddish Inlcons. 



W'iniis aliove rather pale yellowisli fulvous, marked heavily wilii very dark, rather 

 rich brown, varying greatly in the extent of encroachment on the fulvous tints; in 

 the lightest colored individuals, not correllated with sex, the darker markings of the 

 fore wings consist of a narrow fuscous edging to the costal border, faintly interrupted 

 at the uervule tips witli fulvous, a broad dash of blackish brown extending to a little 

 beyond the tip of tlie cell and occupying the whole of it excepting a narrow strip 

 along tlie posterior portion, generally limited above by a sinuous line and not 

 reacliing the tip of the cell ; a club shaped streak in the middle of the lower two-thirds 

 of the broati medio-submedian interspace, extending from the base of the wing to 

 below the tirst divarication of tlie median, wliere tlie club is roundish, a minute patch 

 occupying the very base of the upper median interspace and sometimes connected 

 •with the spot in the cell, an irregular roundish spot in the lower median interspace, 

 nearly as broad as the interspace and having its outer limit in the middle of the same ; 

 a narrow bordering to the outer margin — a little more than equal to the width of half 

 an interspace, broadening a little in the medio-submedian interspace, extending nar- 

 rowly along the inner margin lialf way or more to the base and connected at the 

 upper extremity witli a large patch depending from the costal Ijorder, broader than 

 long, narrowing to a bluntly rounded tip which reaches theiniildlc of the subcosto-me- 

 dian interspace, its interior border nearly straiglit and at nearly riglit angles to the cos- 

 tal margin. On thc/iind wings, the basal half is blackish, fuscous nextthe extreme base 

 and the outer half fulvous, separated by a line which runs from tlie hinder border 

 along the middle subcostal nervnle half way to the latter divarication of the median, 

 then crosses to. but not over, the lower subcostal, follows that as faras the same diva- 

 rication, to which it then crosses and jiasses in a nearly straight course, but mostly 

 hidden liy the infnscated surface and the fulvous hairs, to the inner border; a 

 small spot of black is found in the fulvous area in the subcosto-median interspace, 

 next the angle made by the outline of tlie blackish basal color; and small, roundish, 

 sut)marginal spots occur in the lower median and medio-subinedian interspaces. 



In the darkest individuals the blackish color prevails on the /ore wings, leaving only 

 an extremely irregular, central patch of fulvous, formed of two irregular patches 

 connected by a narrow neck next the base of the middle subcostal uervule; the basal 

 patch is limited above by a straight or sinuous line running along tlie middle of the 

 lower half of the cell almost to its tip, sometimes nearly enclosing the median ner- 

 vure. then passing downward in a slightly irregular course witli a general direction 

 toward a point a little beyond the middle of the submedian nervure, where it turns 

 inwards and almost immediately upwards towards, lint not quite to, the basal bifurca- 

 tion of the median nervure. curves over inward and then downward to the middle of 

 the medio-submedian interspace and then runs in a straight line to the base; that is, 

 the spots in the median interspaces connect with the dark markings of the inner bor- 

 der, and the other dark markings enlarging leave this irregular patch in their midst; 

 the apical patch occupies the l)asal three-fifths, excepting tlic extreme base, of the 

 upper median nervule and a scpiare patch extending upward over two interspaces at 

 the basal half of its upper Iwrder; generally there is a slight prolongation downward 

 upon the lower median interspace near its outer extremity. On the hind iriugs there is 

 a submarginal row of dark roundish spots, farthest from the border and largest in 

 the median and medio-submedian interspaces, smaller and almost resting upon the 

 border in those above; in the darkest specimens these coalesce to a greater or less 

 degree and sometimes form a l)roken, submarginal band, the inner border of the 

 larger spots reaching inwards to fully tlie width of one and one-half interspaces from 



