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the joints beneath iihnost entirely while." (Llntner.) Tongue blackish fuliginous at 

 base, (lark castaneous at e.xtrenie base. 



Thi>rax covered above with mouse-brown hairs, having a slight olivaceous tinge, 

 niiiigleil with some more recumbent purplish anil tawny ones, and behind, on the sides, 

 with sonic pale gray scales ; beneath with rather paler, mouse-brown hairs, mingled 

 witli grayer ones. Logs reddish brown ; the femora covered on tlio Inner side with golden 

 gray scales, and both femora and tibiae fringed with long hairs of tlic same color as 

 those of the under surface of the body ; tarsi much darker above than elsowliere, pale 

 yellowish below; spurs light castaneous at tlio tip, elsewliere clotheil witli gray-brown 

 scales; spines castaneous ; claws castaneous at the base, beyond, with the pad, infus- 

 cated. 



Wings above with an umber-brown ground color. Fore loinys witli a very faint but 

 warm mulberry tinge, arising from a very general llecking of lioary or pearly lilaceous 

 scales over all parts of the wing l)ut the darkest, scarcely any two of which touch each 

 other, and which are most abundant on either side of the extra-mesial spots, especially 

 above, and on the upper third of the basal half of the wing. The most conspicuous of 

 the markings of the wing is the extra-mesial band of mingled black and dark brown 

 scales, forming rather strongly curving, radiating fusiform patclies in the interspaces 

 above the lower outer edge of the cell, and a straight series of two larger roundish or 

 rjuadrate spots in tlie lower median and medio-submedian interspaces, parallel to tiie 

 outer border, and scarcely before the middle of the lower median nervule ; the upper 

 spots of the radiating series — those which arc found in tlie superior subcostal inter- 

 spaces — are much slenderer and somewhat longer than tliose l)elow, and tliere are no 

 hyaline spots in this region or elsewhere. Witliin this extra-mesial, slightly falci- 

 form band the wing is marked by several more or less regular, dusky or blackish dusky 

 patches ; thus the extremity of the cell is marked by a slender, curving bar, and just 

 before it, within the cell, are a pair of dusky, sulirectangular spots, the upper twice as 

 large as the lower, and alone marked with black scales; the extreme base of the lower 

 median interspace is marked by a minute, triangular, dusky spot, with scattered iilack 

 scales, and a similarly marked subquadrate spot crosses the medio-submedian intersp.ace 

 midway between the extra-mesial band and base, which is itself more or less infuscatcd. 

 Beyond the extra-mesial band the markings are confined to a premarginal series of very 

 small, dark brown round spots, wliich are only distinct in the upper half of the wing, 

 being merged more or less into a general duskiness of the margin on the lower half ; 

 the extreme margin is flecked with blackish scales, and the lower margin uniformly 

 flecked with dark brown scales as far as the subraedian nervure. Fringe made of min- 

 gled pale and f Uiginous brown scales, with a few overlying pearly scales on the upper 

 half of the wing. Hind mugs of a duller and more obscure brown tliau the fore wings, 

 infuscated on the basal third, witli a transverse irregular series of small, pale Uiteous, 

 round spots with ill-defined margin, crossing tlie outer half of the wing, and accom- 

 panied on the inner side by an indistinct dusky spot of sliglitly larger size, which 

 touches it, and on the outer side, but midway between it and the margin, by a similar 

 dusky spot; the more distinct of these pale spots form two parallel straight rows, 

 the upper as far above the lower as the outer edge of the lower from the margin, and 

 both forming an angle of about 135° with the middle median nervule. Kxtreme outer 

 margin and fringe as in tlie front wing, but the latter with no pearly scales above. 



Bene.ith dark umber brown, pretty uniformly sprinkled with dark brown scales, as 

 far as the extra-mesial band. Fore icings with tlie extra-mesial Ijand of upper surface 

 repeated, but distinctly and with crowded blackish scales only in tlie upper half of the 

 wing. Outside of it the wing is heavily flecked with pale gray scales, forming ill- 

 defined, rounded spots immediately following the extra-mesial spots, and more or less 

 distinctly surrounding, at least externally, a transverse submarginal series of dark 

 brown round spots, which decrease in size in passing upwards to mere dots ; lower half 

 of outer margin infuscated. Fringe uniform pale slate brown; at base slightly over- 

 laid with very pale gray scales. Hind icings with a broad, irregular, submarginal series 

 of hoary gray, almost whitish, elongated and angulate lunules, rather distantly enclos- 



