HESPEKIDl: TIIOKYUES BATIIYLLUS. 1433 



Und trunkeii frleitct 

 Der Schmetterliug vom aeijiieii Blutcii|ifiili!e. 



Llngg. — Mittarjszauber. 



Hoy-day, what a sweep of vanity comes this way 1 

 They dance! 



Shakespeare.— TuHo?! of Athena, 



Imago (17 : 18). Head covered above with tjlackisli purple and dark Ijrowu scales 

 and brownish olivaceous hairs, mingled with a few pale ones; tuft on outer side of 

 the antennae black ; beneath pale dirty yellow, extending as a narrow rim behind the 

 eyes, nearly to the antennae and mingled above with brownish scales. Palpi pale sil- 

 very gray on the basal half, with a few dark fuliginous brown scales which gain the 

 ascendency on the apical half, especially in the middle, and grow darker toward the 

 tip ; blackish bristly liairs arc found on the exterior half of the palpi and the apical 

 joint resembles the parts al)out it. Antennae blackish purplisli above, the whole stalk, 

 excepting next the base, pretty heavily flecked with the silvery gray or nacreous tints 

 which occupy the rest of the antennae, excepting the blackish apical halves of the 

 joints on the anterior face; tlie anterior surface of the crook and the extremity of the 

 club is naked and varies in color from fusco-castaneous to blackish. 



Thorax above and beneath covered with dark brown hairs witli occasional, intermin- 

 gled, yellow and pale brown ones. Legs dark brown with purplish reflections, incon- 

 spicuously flecked above and externally with yellowish or pale scales, the inside of 

 the tibiae and tarsi and the under edge of the inner surface of the femora clay brown, 

 or excepting on the tarsi sometimes paler; the tibiae and joints of the tarsi are Incon- 

 spicuously tipped with the same; the fringes of the femora are dark gray from an 

 admixture of brown and yellow hairs ; leaf -like appendages of fore tibiae glistening 

 brownish yellow ; spurs dusky, flecked with pale yellowish and tipped with dark reddish ; 

 spines dark reddish; claws the same at base, the apical half blackish; pad blackish 

 brown. 



Wings above very dark rich brown, usually with an olivaceo-purplish tinge, but 

 on the apical third becoming gradually more or less considerably, though never greatly, 

 flecked witli dull yellowish scales which impart to it a grayish hue. Fore wings with 

 a narrow, mesial series of live disconnected white or silvery spots, all but the middle 

 cue of which are found in a line drawn from the middle or scarcely beyond the middle 

 of the costal margin to the extremity of the sulimedian nervure; the middle one 

 occurs in the upper median interspace, is subquadrate and its interior border is gener- 

 ally on a line with the exterior borders of the others ; the uppermost, above the sub- 

 costal nervure, is generally double and about as long as broad ; that in the cell 

 traverses it and forms a narrow, transverse stripe, or is more frequently hour-glass 

 shaped or broken into two triangular patches, their apices scarcely separate, oris even 

 wholly obsolete, although tliis is rare ; that in the lower median interspace is a nearly 

 equal, transversely oblique stripe, occasionally hour-glass shaped, generally fully 

 twice as long as broad ; the lowest is transverse, triangular, depending at riglit angles 

 from the lowest median nervule beyond the middle of the outer half and extend- 

 ing across half the interspace; occasionally there is a minute, white spot resting 

 on the middle of the upper median nervule ; depending from the middle of the outer 

 two-flfths of the costal margin, and almost at right angles to it is a scarcely arcuate, 

 almost equal series of three or four closely connected white spots, the lowermost a 

 little smaller than the others and inclined to be removed further tow-ard the tip ; the 

 transverse series is about twice as long as broad, terminating at the next to the lowest 

 subcostal nervule, ne.xt the lower edge of which still further toward the outer margin, 

 a white or silvery dot is rarely seen. Outer margin jindistinctly and narrowly edged 

 with a black line. Fringe brownish yellow, somewhat infuscated above, paler below, 

 the basal fourth dusky, but overlaid by pale hoary scales and tlie whole interrupted 

 aljruptly but not broadly with very dark or griseous brown at the nervure tips. Hind 

 wings narrowly blackish next the outer margin; fringe nearly uniform, pale brownish 



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