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THE BUTTERFLIKS OF NEW EN(JLANI). 



dash; it is accompanied beneatli by a more or less distinct, clouded patch, shorter but 

 broader than itself, with a rounded Iwrder and composed of partially erect segregated 

 scales, changable, metallic green and i)urple by reflected light ; the outer edge is marked 

 narrowly with blaclvish, and the fringe is pale or whitish fulvous, tinged witli brown- 

 ish, especially in the ? , and on the basal portion above the lower median nervulc. 

 Hind u-inr/s with an outer border similar in character to that of the fore wings, increasing 

 regularly in width in eitherdirection from the subcosto-median interspace, where it is less 

 than an interspace in width, to tlie medio-submedian interspace, whei'e it reaches more 

 tlian one-fourth way to the base of the wing ; the whole costal margin is also bordered 

 with darl< brown as far as the subcostal nervure and in the middle of the wing, even 

 broadening so as to include the base of the subcostal interspace and the very extremity 

 of the cell; the inner margin is similarly bordered as far as the submedian nervure, 

 but is largely obscured by tawny hairs, as is also an obscure, dusky spot, often absent 

 from the ^ , but always present in tlio ? , occupying the bases of the median and medio- 

 submedian interspaces, and in the $ reducing the tawny marks to a pretty broad, equal, 

 tawny band, wliich sends a slender streak liaseward in the cell and is broken by the 

 uervures slenderly traced in brown. Fringe as in fore wings, but paler. 



Beneath pretty uniform, Ijrownish yellow, approaching bnfl". Fore wings with the 

 basal portions only of the marginal spots present and in diminished intensity and size, 

 forming a series of independent, triangular, submargiual spots, those of the interspaces 

 beyond the cell often obsolete; the oblique streak marking the tip of the cell is also 

 present and is sometimes accompanied — notably in the ? — by the dashes beyond it, Init 

 much obscured ; the lower lialf of the base of the wing as far as opposite the middle of 

 the cell, the inner margin as far as the submedian nervure, and the <J dash, or its cor- 

 responding spot in the $ , are blackish fuscous; between the last mentioned markings 

 and tlie submarginal spots, especially on the lower half of the wing, the In'igliter colors 

 become paler, occasionally and particularly in tlie ? somewliat livid; the outer margin 

 is delicately traced in IMackish, and the fringe rcsemljles tliat of tlie upper surface. 

 Hindwings witli a submarginal bent series of independent, small, dusk_y, occasionally 

 sagittate spots, corresponding to the apices of the marginal spots of the upper surface, 

 and varying in size and intensity; there is also a frequently obsolete series of similar, 

 but generally when present, smaller and more obscure spots in the same interspaces, 

 parallel to the submarginal row and crossing tlie middle of tlie wing; between the two 

 series the wing is frequently a very little paler, occasionally very much so, especially 

 when the wliole wing excepting the transverse 1>elt tlius formed is tinged, as it occa- 

 sionally is, especially in the ? , with a greenish brown hue; there is, also, a small dark 

 spot at the extreme base of the subcosto-median interspace, and sometimes another, 

 usually larger, and occasionally forming a longitudinal dash, in the centre of tlie cell ; 

 the outer margin above the lowest median nervule is very delicately traced with dark 

 brown, and the fringe is pale fulvous, in tlie $ tinged with brownish. 



Abdomen profusely furnished above and on sides with tawny hairs, beneath pale bufl'. 

 Upper organ of male appendages (37 : 13) with the centrum broadly channeled aljove, 

 from the thickening of the edges; hook fully two-thinls the lengtli of the centrum, a 

 little longer than broad, docked at the tip, a little longitudinally channeled above, the 

 upper edges minutely denticulate, with a larger tooth next the base, below which the 

 lateral arms appear as a sliglit expansion. Clasps less than twice as long as broad, only 

 reaching the lateral arms of the upper organ, pretty regularly triangular, terminated 

 above by two similar, equal, cylindrical, blunt-tipped lingers, directed backward and 

 slightly upward, attingent, their length equalling half the breadth of the hook. 



Described from 21 3,29. 



