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scarcely before the miildle of the costal border to the lower outer ansleof the wln£js, 

 while tlie llfth, at the base of the upper median Interspace, Is trlanijular and wedged be" 

 tweeii the outer halves of the second and third spots, or, if sutjquadrate, leaves a little 

 triangular dark spot near the middle of the band ; the upper spot is small and square ; 

 the second which crosses the cell is also square or nearly so but large ; the third Is still 

 larger, crossing the lower median interspace, rhoraboidal, being longer than broad, 

 while the fourth in the upper half of the interspace below is smaller than the fifth, trian- 

 gular, depending by its base from the lowerouter angle of the fourth ; the interior margin 

 of the upper three spots is nearly continuous, straight and at right angles to the costal 

 margin ;there is also a similar, minute, triangular or roundish spot resting upon the mid- 

 dle of the upper median nervule, and, a little more than half way from the mesial band 

 to the tip of the wing, depending from the costal margin but at a little more than a right 

 angle to the central portion of the border, is a nearly straight series of three or four 

 minute, pale yellowish or amber colored, longitudinal or squarish spots, the lowermost a 

 little removed beyond the others and all more or less distinctly enclosed iu a blackish 

 penumbra ; the nervures are often darker than the ground color of the wing ; the 

 outer border is delicately edged with a black line; fringe pale brownish yellow, be- 

 coming paler below, the extreme base partially overlaid with dusky scales and the 

 whole interrupted abruptly and rather broadly with blackish brown at the nervure tips. 

 Uind wings yvith a very indistinct, broad, cloudy belt across the middle of the outer half ; 

 fringe as on fore wings but not interrupted so abruptly as there; the paler colors 

 forming broad lunules between the dark continuations of the nervules; below the sub- 

 median and on the inner border the fringe is wholly dark. 



Beneath, dark yellowish brown, freckled, tinged and striped with blackish; the 

 mesial spots of the upper surface of the /ore inngs are repeated beneath, as also in a 

 vague way those ou the apical half of the wing; within the mesial spots the ground 

 color is tinged with blackish ; blackish freckling follows also the coarse of the smaller 

 vitreous spots, and bounds interiorly a marginal series of small, grayish lunules, which 

 increase in distinctness toward the costal margin, and are caused by a sprinkling of 

 long white scales on a dusky ground ; the inner margiu is grayer than the other parts 

 of the wing, the outer margin is narrowly edged with black, and the fringe resembles 

 closely that of the upper surface. In the hind wings the ground color is nearly 

 obscured by white and black markings ; crossing the middle of the wing are two 

 rather narrow, tortuous, subparallel black stripes, extending from the costal margin 

 to the submedian nervure, connected in the lower median interspace, and generally just 

 below the costal nervure, and having all but their edges uniformly sprinkled with 

 slender, needle-like, white scales or hairs, giving the black an inky look; these bands 

 are less than an interspace in width, run almost parallel to the outer border, are equal 

 iu width, and separated from each other by their own width, the interior edge of the 

 outer one striking the onter divarication of the median nervure; the inner band 

 broadens toward the costal border by extending half way to the base of the wing, 

 between the costal and subcostal nervures ; the exterior edge of the outer Is vaguely 

 dellned and its border is not devoid, like the others, of the white needles; beyond the 

 outer stripe the wing is mostly dull white above the submedian nervure, and especially in 

 the middle of the wing, but it is flecked throughout with transverse, broken, tremulous 

 threads of yellowish brown, which increase in frequency, breadth, and generally also 

 in depth of tint on either side of the median area, and especially on the apical half of 

 the white belt above this area and the middle portion of the same in the medio-subme- 

 dian interspace ; especially in the latter it deepens to a distinct spot ; the whole inner 

 margin is of the fundamental color, flecked with frequent, transverse, dusky threads or 

 strigae ; outer border sometimes very narrowly edged with a blackish line ; fringe 

 much as above. 



Abdomen above of the color of the upper surface of the wings, the tips of the joints 

 very narrowly paler ; beneath slightly darker. Upper organ of the male appendages 

 (35:4+) with the hooks parallel, nearly straight, but slightly arcuate when viewed 

 laterally, slender, tapering a little on the apical half, as long as the centrum, the tip 



