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which just include the autenuae and just fail of reaching the outer edge of the head, 

 diver^iing from each otlier as they pass backward ; the band of either side broadens in 

 passing posteriorly and originates at tlie very bottom of t!ie front, where it is distinct, 

 but along the front is bordered by a fringe of dark hairs whii-li partially conceals it; 

 behind the eye is a very slender border of white scales, and beneatli all the hairs are 

 of this color, with a slight yellowish tinge; palpi pure white throughout. Antennae 

 uniform dnll orange luteous, the under surface of the clul), especially toward the tip, 

 slightly infuscated, and the ui)per surface, especially next the sides and toward the tip, 

 sometimes similarly atVected. Tongue piceous tliroughout. 



Thorax black above, covered with erect, delicate, moderately long, pale greenish 

 hairs, which become less erect, more delicate and longer behind, the front half with a 

 pair of pale greenish yellow stripes, the continuation of those on the head, broadening 

 and becoming fainter as they pass backward, covering the patagia and terminating at 

 their tip. Beneatli, the thorax is black with a broad, longitudinal stripe of Islack hairs 

 extending from behind the eyes next the extreme base of the wings to the side of 

 the abdomen, the hairs faintly gray-tipped on the prothorax. Beneath this white with 

 a greenish yellow tinge, but along the median ventral line, between the coxae, covered 

 again and densely with black hairs. Legs very pale green, the femora covered exte- 

 riorly with white hairs, the base interiorly with black hairs; the tibiae faintly and the 

 joints of the tarsi more conspicuously tipped with pale castaneons; spines black; 

 claws reddish, spurs pale green, tipped with pale reddish ; claws reddish, pale next the 

 base, a little dark at the tip. 



Wings above blackish brown with a sllglit purplish tone, marked with broad, trans- 

 verse, dull whitish stripes with a faint, greenish yellow tinge. Fore wings with the 

 costal margin moderately and almost uniformly arched but with the basal fifth and 

 apical fourth a little more strongly than elsewhere; apex rather abruptly rounded 

 giving a subfalcate appearance; outer margin gently and uniformly convex above the 

 middle of the subcosto-median interspace, a very little more prominent in the J than 

 in the $ ; below this nearly or quite straight with a slight fulness next the tip of the 

 lowest median nervule ( $ ) , or very broadly and slightly convex ( <? ) ; lower outer 

 angle stiuarely rounded; inner margin slightly excavated, but full next the tip of the 

 internal nervure. The transverse stripes are as follows : next the base but not reach- 

 ing it one slender and more or less curving, extending from the inner margin where it is 

 broadest and about as broad as the eyes to the costal nervure, along whose inner 

 edge it turns and follows with whitish flecks to about as great a distance from the 

 base of the wing as half the width of tlie cell ; its inner edge is well-defined throughout, 

 its outer powdery; all the other stripes have somewhat powdery edges, but the outer 

 of the tjands crossing the cell less than the others ; the second band likewise crosses 

 the entire wing, excepting that it does not cover the costal edge and is generally fringed 

 on the inner border with dark scales; it is broad, its interior border a little convex, 

 opening outwardly, terminating below at the tip of the internal nervure, rarely just 

 within it, above midway between the base of the costal border and the upper interior 

 limit of the band above the interior base of the middle median interspace ; the outer limit 

 of the band is straight or nearly so and terminates below just within the middle of the 

 inner border, above midway tietween the base of the costal margin and the middle of 

 the black band which wholly or partially divides the pale bands surmounting the middle 

 median interspace ; the next baud is but a narrow, straight, or slightly sinuous or 

 curved stripe — sometimes but a powdery trace crossing the cell transversely and divid- 

 ing equally the dark band which separates the pale band just described from the next 

 beyond ; this is a very broad band crossing the entire wing, like the first broad band 

 described and with the same exception; it is divided above, in the cell, into two, by a 

 black stripe which sometimes crosses the entire cell, equal in width to the two pale 

 bands thus formed at its side, but generally narrows as it passes downward, and not 

 infrequently passes but half or two-thirds way across the cell, its terminal portion 

 heavily powdered witli pale scales, both its interior and exterior border usually curved 

 slightly, opening baseward ; the Interior border of this broad, pale band which crosses 



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