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witiifs, especially in the $, witli blnckish Ijrowii. Jlirui ici'nf/s lleckctl at the base as 

 oil the fore winsrs, but passing In 'nearly all specimens in a broad stripe alon-; the 

 median nervnre beyond the llrst divarication, more broadly and rather more heavily in 

 the ? than in the (f. Jnst above the extremity of the upper subcostal nervule, the 

 costal margin is bordered by a few ariseons scales, often obsolete in tlie (J , "{eneraUy 

 heavy in the ?. Kxceptini; tlieso marl<in;;s and a delicate dusky line often edging the 

 outer border, the wings are generally devoid of markings in the (J ; sometimes, how- 

 ever, a few scattered scales in the costal interspaces ami very rarely a few scales 

 flecking the extrenuties of the nervnies mark the position of tlio markings otherwise 

 peculiar to the ?, namely, a submarginal zigzag band, occasionally partially ob- 

 solete, of the same color as the markings of the fore wings, crossing the middle of 

 the outer two-Ufths of the wing, parallel to the outer border, the angulations nearest 

 the outer border occurring on the ncrvules and there joining a scries of marginal 

 spots similar to but rather smaller than those of the fore wings and thus enclosing 

 large pyriform or lozenge shaped white spots: in addition tlio nervures are sometimes 

 wholly tleckcd ratlier broadly but faintly with griseous scales, l)iit most conspicuously 

 in the median area. Fringe white. 



Beneath of the same white as the upper surface. Fore icings with the nervures on 

 the apical fourth of the wing occasionallybroadly , but seldom deeply, tinged with green- 

 ish yellow; a slight, similar hue is sometimes found at the tip of the coll; more com- 

 monly the same apical nervures are narrowly edged with dusky, although never to the 

 same extent as above; the other markings of the upper surface are repeated beneath, 

 generally a very little more broadly; they are usually less distinct, being more or less 

 sprinkled, excepting the median and sometimes the medio-snbmedian ones, with whit- 

 ish scales, occasionally forming in the spot at the tip of the cell a distinct grayish spot 

 within the dark one; outer margin sometimes very narrowly and very inconspicuously 

 edged with grayish. Hind icings sometimes wholly immaculate, excepting a few scat- 

 tered gray scales bordering the pale yellow nervule closing the cell, a faint cluster 

 crossing the upper subcostal nervule just below the tip of the costal nervnre and a sim- 

 ilar bent cluster a little before the middle of the outer two-thirds of the lower subcostal 

 interspace; usually, however, and especially in the ? , these latter markings are much 

 more distinct and form a part of a transverse, zigzag series of connected, bi-oad and 

 powdery, arrow-shaped spots, formed either of greenish gray scales or of blackish scales 

 on a greenish yellow ground, subparallel to the outer border, the outer extremities of 

 which reach the border at the nervule tips, and the inner extend along the interspaces 

 more than half way to the extremity of the cell. In addition, all the nervures, espec- 

 ially those surrounding and those parts of the others which lie in immediate proximity 

 to the cell and also the lower median nervule, are heavily bordered with greenish yel- 

 low more or less flecked with griseous ; sometimes the griseous fleckings alone remain ; 

 and between these two extremes there appears to be every grade of variation without 

 reference to geographical distribution ; in the specimens which are most heavily 

 marked the outer border is narrowly edged especially near the nervnre tips with 

 griseous: fringe white. 



Abdomen above black, heavily covered at the base with iron gray hairs, and beyond 

 thickly with dull, pale yellow scales; beneath with white scales becoming yellow at 

 the sides. Upper organ of male appendages (35 : 17, 18) about twice as long as broad, 

 the hook tapering a little more rapidly than the centrum to a point, reaching the poste- 

 rior border of the clasps ; the latter angularly rounded behind and above, the basal half 

 of the upper border straight. 



Described from 28 3 , 7 9 . 



