FA.Ml'HIIJDI: PIIYCAXASSA VIATOR. 1605 



( 9 ) ; it consists of two more or less coiilluent, longitudinal, oval dashes, tlie lower the 

 inner; tlicre is an extra-mesial irregular series of unequal spots of a similar color, 

 varjiug aoconliuji to the sex, of which two or sometimes three are found in the sub- 

 costal interspaces, midway between the cellular spot and the apex of the wing; the 

 lowermost largest, twice as long as broad, tlie next above not more than half as long, 

 and of somewliat similar shape but shorter, .and the third and uppermost, when present, 

 rarely more than a mere dot; the interior edges of these spots lie in aline perpendicular 

 to the costal margin; the next spots of tills series, with the exception of a rarely occur- 

 ring collection of scattered scales in the interspace beyond the cell, somewhat more 

 than half way between the cellular spot and the margin, are situated in the median inter- 

 spaces, equally near the base; the uppermost, in the second median interspace, midway 

 between the cellular spot and the margin of the wing, is generally triangular, lunulate, 

 and occupies the entire width of the interspace but does not encroach upon the uervure; 

 that in the first median interspace is of a somewhat similar form but more rounded 

 basally, sometimes truncate, its outer border just outside the inner border of the spot 

 above ; this is followed by a spot in the upper half of the medio-submedian interspace, 

 about as large as tliat in the second median iuterspace, but transverse and rhomboidal 

 or subrhomboidal ; and this by an elongated streak sometimes tawny in the female, 

 often confluent with the above, which runs along the lower half of the medio-submedian 

 interspace half way or less toward the base. Hind wings : Whole discal portion of the 

 wing tawny, excepting certain parts in the female, especially in the upper median and 

 subcostal interspaces, which may be pale tawuj', leaving in all cases a broad margin with 

 wavy outline, twice the width of an interspace, around the whole outer margin; inner 

 margin also of this blackish brown color above the subcostal nervure ; the inner mar- 

 gin to a similar extent gray by an intermingling of fulvous hairs and pale tawny 

 scales; the central discal, t.awny spot, however, is traversed by veins of the color of 

 the ground, often broadly marked, especially in the female, and including a distinct 

 streak across the extremity of the cell and filling the extreme base of all the inter- 

 spaces. Fringe of all the wings pale brown apically, blackish brown at base. 



Beneath, dark gray brown, the fore wings sometimes much deeper in color, becom- 

 ing blackish brown, especially in the males. Fore wings with the basal two-thirds of 

 the costal margin as far as the cell more or less heavily washed with tawny, including 

 a tawny spot more or less vague at the extremity of the cell, across the middle or outer 

 edge of which runs a slender blackish bar marking the termination of the cell. The 

 extra-mesial spots of the upper surface are repeated beneath, the subcostal ones whitish 

 in the female, occasionally slightly paler than the other markings in the male; the re- 

 maining markings are more or less confluent in both sexes, generally much more so 

 than above, and are fulvous in both sexes, though rather paler in the female than in 

 the male. Hind wings diflering considerably from the upper surface, in that the mark- 

 ings are largely confined to a broad obscure bar, slightly paler only than the ground, 

 which extends from the base filling the entire cell and running to the outer limit of the 

 extra-mesial row of spots, which here consist, above this ray, of a large, longitudinal, 

 oval or sublunulate spot in the middle of the subcostal interspace, not i-eaching its 

 upper margin, and of a straight series of similar spots in the median and medio-sub- 

 median interspaces, especially the former, which runs subparallel to the outer border, 

 but from the cell inward at an increasing distance from the outer margin, the edges of 

 those in the median interspaces near the centre of their respective interspaces ; these 

 are of a pale fulvous color, decidedly paler in the female than in the male, often be- 

 coming almost dirty white, and are bounded by a darker cloud, most distinct on the outer 

 side. Fringe of all the wings tolerably uniform, very pale brown, the edge of the wing 

 itself marked by a fine thread of brown. 



Abdomen blackish brown, much fiecked, especially upon the sides, with brownish 

 yellow scales ; beneath with pale clay yellow. The centrum of the upper organ of the 

 male appendages (37 : 10) is remarkable for the independent tumidity of each half 

 above, at the point of greatest bend in the upper organ, the apical portion of the latter 

 developing a similar central boss just next the base of the hook; the lateral arms are 



