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more lumilate and receding slif^htly from tlie outer border in passing downward, 

 altlioniih tlie uppermost ones are often larger than tliose in tlie middle of the wing; 

 the spots are not so deep in tint as the other darker markings of the wing and they are 

 often followed exteriorly by faint, pale points. The space between the extra-mesial 

 and submarginal bands is filled, almost uniformly and rather profusely, but below 

 sometimes more abundantly next the former, with elongated, pale lilaceous scales; 

 minute crescents of the same, opening inward, are seated upon the outer border iu the 

 interspaces, and similar scales edge very slightly the interior border of the extra-mesial 

 band and both borders of the interior bands, in the former especially upon the lower, in 

 the others especially upon the upper half of the wing; a few elongated, hair-like scales 

 are scattered along the costal margin as far as the upper third of the cell but stop 

 short before reaching the subcostal vitreous spots ; outer margin edged narrowly with 

 black, slightly thickened at the nervures. Fringe of the ground color of the wing, a 

 little darker toward the base than at tip, the basal half flecked with white beyond the 

 middle of the interspaces. Hind loings with a submarginal, regularly arcuate series of 

 ill-defined, roundish, dusky spots, and a strongly sinuous series of similar, often 

 confluent, dusky spots, crossing the middle of the outer two-thirds of the wing, each 

 followed outwardly by indistinct, pale spots, correspondhig to those found in the 

 other species, but generally less distinct here and sometimes forming a faint, pale 

 cloud between the rows of dark spots. Outer margin edged with black, slightly 

 broadened at the nervure tips ; fringe of the lighter color of the wing, clouded with 

 black tov.-ard the base, especially next the nervure tips, and nest the interspaces over- 

 laid by a few w-hitish scales. 



Beneath dark fuliginous brown, with a slight piu-plish tinge, the outer half, espec- 

 ially of the fore wings, paler. Fore wings with the vitreous spots exactly repeated, 

 and the extra-mesial band faintly defined with independent spots, more uoticeable in 

 the subcostal area than elsewliere; the submarginal row of spots of the upper surface 

 almost exactly repeated beneath, preceded and followed by pale or whitish clouds, 

 less distinct and more extended within than without, below and along the inner mar- 

 gin bathing the whole in pale gray, and at the apex wholly supplanted by hoary or 

 lilaceous flecking, which occupies the apex of the wing beyond the extra-mesial band, 

 and continues next the outer border to the middle of the wing; the upper part of tlie 

 cell is filled nearly to the tip with a dusky band; the outer margin is edged with 

 black and the fringe is dark slate brown, a little pale at the extreme base. Hind wings 

 with a submarginal series of very large, rounded, triangular, nearly equal, independent, 

 blackish brown spots, their outer bonlers forming the base of the triangles, and placed 

 at half an interspace's width or less from the margin; they extend from the costal to 

 the submedian nervures, and are connected with the border by generally distinct, 

 short, whitish lines in the middle of the interspaces ; toward the base of the wing they 

 are edged with pale or whitish crescents, more distinct and broaxlest next the base, 

 and in the interspace beyond the cell a little removed from the spot itself ; tlicse are 

 followed immediately by another transverse series of somewhat smaller, less distinct 

 and less independent dusky spots, occupying the same Interspaces, sinuous in direc- 

 tion, inasmuch as they recede from the border between the principal nervures and ap 

 proach it between the nervules of the same system ; a similar spot is found in the 

 middle of the extremity of the cell, separated from that beyond by a faint, paler cloud. 

 Outer margin and fringe as in the fore wing. 



Abdomen blackish brown above, the segments tipped with dark cinei-eous ; beneath 

 grayish brown. {T/jper orjare of male appendages (36:21-23) with the centrum long 

 and slender, not elevated, unusually small; crest consisting of a pair of depressed, 

 slightly curving, lateral expansions, nearly horizontal, the anterior angle produced as 

 a small, narrow, rounded lobe, directed outward and slightly forward. Hooks short, 

 moderately slender, slightly divergent, broadly separated at base, the main body at 

 their extreme base expanding laterally in a ridge nearly or quite continuous with the 

 lateral arras; tooth stout, conical, directed somewhat forward, terminating 6luutly 

 with a slightly elevated apical ridge. Lateral arms slender, directed at first forward 



