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seateil on the outer bonier, connected only by their bases; there aresoUlom any marks 

 of the band below the middle nu'dian norvide and it is occasionally restricted altogether 

 to the subcostal area; frinire pale pink and yellowish, the former prevailing on the 

 lower, the latter on the upper half. 



Beneath varying from rather pale to rather ileep sulphur yellow, generally brighter 

 in the $ tlian in tlie $ ; fore wiitgs usually paler on tlie lower half of the cell and the 

 base of the median interspaces, always paler next the inner margin ; the costal nuirgin 

 broadly bordered with a distant flecking of dusky scales and the costal edge of rather 

 a dark pink; outer limits of the cell marked by a transversely oval or roundi-sh black 

 spot, similar to that on the upper surface but usually proportionally broader in the ? 

 than in the $ and having a transverse white dash in its centre; across the middle 

 of the outer two-ttfths of the wing is a transverse series of generally not very distinct 

 occasionally often obsolete, dusky spots ; below the subcostal nervure they are in a 

 straight series, scarcely farther from the outer margin below than above, but there is 

 seldom more than a dot in tlie subcosto-median interspace ; above the s\d)costal nervure 

 the series curves strongly inward, the last one being scarcely within the middle of the 

 outer half of the costal border ; between these spots and the middle of the wing are 

 often a few sparsely scattered dusky scales ; fringe pink, changing to yellow below the 

 lowest median nervule and often infringing on the edge of the outer border so as to 

 make the fringe of apparently double w'idth. Hind winys not infrequently uniformly 

 and consideral)ly decked witli dusky scales, giving the wing a rather faint, griseous 

 appearance ; costal border and very frequently all the other borders edged narrowly 

 with pink; at the extreme base of the wing, in the middle, extending a very short dis- 

 tance into tlic cell, a short, dark pink, longitudinal dash ; at the extremity of the cell a 

 round or roundish silvery spot edged with a dull ferruginous brown annulus flecked 

 slightly with dusky ; witli the annulus it reaches from the lowest subcostal nervule 

 more than half way to the upper median nervule and is surrounded by a broader 

 clouded annulus of a paler, usually somewhat ochreous tint which deepens at its 

 external limits to a slender circle of a color as deep as the inner annulus ; resting upon 

 this compound spot is a similar one, when largest less than half the diameter of this, 

 seated near the base of the lower subcostal interspace; it is, however, frequently much 

 smaller or to a considerable extent obsolete; the silver is the first to disappear and 

 occasionally tlie whole spot is altogetiier wanting ; in the middle of the outer two-flfths 

 of the wing is a transverse series, nearly parallel to the outer border, of quite small, 

 rather indistinct spots of ferruginous pink, sometimes reduced to mere dots in the 

 subcostal, median and medio-submedian interspaces; and in direct continuation of the 

 series a transverse dusky pink or ferruginous bar crossing at least the upper half and 

 generally the w liole of the costo-subcostal interspace and reaching to the costal margin ; 

 in specimens where the dark markings are darkest, tlie costal margin is more or less 

 conspicuously marked with dusky fleckings which tlien connect witli the liase of this 

 bar; fringe pink, its thinner outer half pale or whitish. 



Abdomen above blackish very heavily llecked with greenish yellow scales; below 

 pale yellow, palest ventrally. In the male the hook of eiglith segment (35 : 4, 5) is 

 scarcely more than one-third the length of the rest of the segment, arched and almost 

 equally stout throughout excepting at the very extremity which is suddenly narrowed 

 and dependent. Hook of upper organ slenderer and rather smaller than in E. interior. 

 Clasps half as broad at the upper extremity as near the lower, but not broadened 

 above, the upper extremity broadly and deeply clianncllod transversely in the middle, 

 the upper angle less incurved than in E. interior. 



Describeil from numerous specimens. 



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