HESPERIDI : IIESPERIA MONTIVAGA. 1537 



the tnrsi, tinged generally with l)rownlsli, occasionally distinctly chocolate brown; 

 spnrs white, at tip dnsky reddish ; spines luteous ; claws varying from Inteous to 

 dark reddish. 



Wings above blackish brown, slightly tinged with ferruginous, largely checkered 

 with white. Fore wings with the basal two-llfths of the costal margin, the middle of 

 the basal half of the cell, the basal half of the medio-submedian interspace, especially 

 above, and the inner border as far as the snbmedian nervure, excepting the apical (Ifth, 

 covered abundantly with not very long, bluish gray hairs, more abundant and conspic- 

 uous in the $ than in the $ ; the costal edge, excepting the extreme l)ase in the <f 

 and the basal one-third or two-tlfths in the J , is white, interrupted rather broadly with 

 dark brown at the nervule tips. Above tlie subcostal nervure and inferior subcostal 

 nervules,the outer four-sevenths of the wing is largely flecked with longitudinal white 

 dashes, mostly arranged in three transverse series of three or four spots each, sep- 

 arated by the nervules, larger and more conspicuous in the ^ , where they are nearly 

 confluent, than in the ? : the innermost series consists of three oblique dashes, the 

 middle one much larger than the upper and occupying the basal two-thirds or three- 

 fourths of the interspace between the flrst and second superior subcostal nervules ; 

 the lowermost is usually reduced to a mere dot, and is not infrequently absent; the 

 middle series consists of four nearly equal, shorter, generally wedge-shaped dashes, in 

 a series nearly at right angles to the costal border, the uppermost occupying the 

 middle of the interspace between the second and third superior subcostal nervules, the 

 other three at the extreme base of the succeeding lower interspaces ; the three spots of 

 the outer series are in the same interspaces, separated by but a narrow space from the 

 middle series and occupying the whole width of the interspaces, are broader than the 

 preceding and subquadrate, with rounded corners ; the uppermost is often accom- 

 panied, especially in the ^, by a minute dot just beyond its outer extremity. In the 

 cell and the interspaces lying beyond it, including the upper median interspace, these 

 series are continued as two sets of white spots : the innermost, of about equal size in 

 J and $ , is quadrate, usually simple and squarish, sometimes partially or wholly 

 divided into an upper and lower; it crosses the cell close to its extremity, its upper 

 outer angle usually lying opposite the middle of the space between the base of the 

 second and third superior subcostal nervules; the outer series consists of three spots, 

 one in each of the interspaces, always larger and more distinct in the J than in the ? , 

 situated in a transverse series, their inner edges as far beyond the extremity of the 

 cell as the outer border of the cellular spot lies within it, and when fully developed, 

 they extend half way to the outer border, at least below; in the $ they are often re- 

 duceil to mere cloudy dashes in the middle of the interspaces, but in the $ , although 

 separated by the ner^TjIes only, they are at least twice as long as broad. This series 

 is in direct continuity with the middle of the three superior series; the upper half of 

 the space between the two series of the middle of the wing is usually occupied, at 

 least in the $, by two white dots, the upper the larger; below the middle median 

 nervule, this field is occupied by but a single transverse series of three spots, the two 

 in the medio-submedian interspace occasionally merged into one; it runs subparallel 

 to the outer border, is directed between the two median series, and is of about the 

 width of the outer of them, generally much more conspicuous in the ^ than in the 9 ; 

 the upper spot is quadrate, generally twice as long as broad, and the largest spot In 

 the wing; the two spots below are usually separated only by a line, subquadrate, but 

 variable and often quite irregular in outline ; within these, at the extreme base of the 

 lower median interspace, is a small, triangular spot, occasionally obsolete, and usually, 

 and as often in the ? as in the $ , accompanied by a small quadrate spot, seated on 

 the submedian nervure, below the base of the lowest median nervule. The outer por- 

 tion of the wing is provided with a sligiitly tortuous, submarginal series of subequal, 

 roundish, occasionally quadrate or even sublunate spots, eight in number, two of 

 which are in the medio-submedian interspace, and one in each of the succeeding inter- 

 spaces above, usually at slightly more than an interspace's distance from the outer 

 border ; from above downward they regularly approach the outer border as far as the 



