PAMPIIILini: KRYNNTS MANITOBA. 1647 



of the ni.irkinirs of the uiulei' surface; the outer eilge of all the whigs marked with a 

 black thread, the friiige dark brown at base, on the lower half of the fore wing, 

 and on the upper two-thirds of the hind wins, especially the latter, followed more or 

 less distinctly by white. 



Beneath : Fare icintjs fulvous, the apical third much Itecked with greenish yellow 

 scales, crossed in the middle of the outer half of the wings by an exceedingly irregular 

 transverse series of spots, far more conspicuous in the female than in the male ; in 

 the latter they are conliiied almost altogether to two or three often obsolescent sub- 

 costal spots midway between the apex of the cell and of tlie wing, and to two 

 invariably present, snbconfluent, sulxpiadrate spots in the interspace beyond the cell, 

 distant from the outer margin by from one-half to the whole of an interspace; in the 

 female these markings are always conspicuous in all their parts and hold a similar 

 position and rarely are connected at the lower outer corner of the upper and the 

 upper inner corner of the lower, but usually are separated from each other by their 

 own width; beneath this, in the female, rarely in direct connection with the preceding, 

 is a series of three large subquadrate lunules in the median and medio-submedian inter- 

 spaces, increasing in size from aljove downward, the low'est generally very vague, 

 fading out on either side, the others rendered much more conspicuous by the suffusion 

 of the whole part of this wing on either side of these spots by blackish brown, which 

 is almost totally wanting in the male, where these spots are indicated by a pallid wash 

 rarely with any distinct margins. Hind wings: excepting for the markings, the wing 

 is almost uniformly greenish yellow, varying, however, from a bright olivaceous to a 

 dark greenish gray : the markings consist of a white spot, round or angulale at the 

 apex of the cell, very variable in form, not infrequently extending over the median 

 nervule into the interspace below and running along this nervure toward the base; in 

 such case it is alw.ays accompanied by a similar, triangular, elongate spot at the ex- 

 treme base of the costo-subcostal interspace, more commonly present In the female 

 than in the male ; further, of the extra-mesial series of spots common to this genus, 

 which here consist of white spots usually quadrate, those in the median area generally 

 confluent or subconflueut, especially in the female, occasionally intensified by a black 

 edging and altogether at their fullest forming a belt bent at right angles or a little 

 less, across the wing; very rarely all the spots are connected and in such case 

 tongues of white scales are thrown out from the band along the uervules on either 

 side, especially on the outer; the upper portion of this bent band consists of two spots 

 in the costo-subcostal and subcostal interspaces, the upper sometimes absent, often re- 

 duced to a mere dot. the lower generally (luadrato or at least quadrangular, not in- 

 frequently rhomboidal, and situated in the middle of its interspace ; the spots in the 

 interspace beyond the cell are almost always confluent and form a transverse sub- 

 quadrate spot generally excised on the inner margin, usually distant from the outer 

 margin by the width of an interspace ; the remaining spots forming the lower arm of 

 the bent baud are sub-par.allel to the outer border and their outer margin is as far from 

 the same as the inner margin of the spots in the interspace beyond the cell; they are 

 subequal, generally quadrate. Fringe much as above. 



Abdomen blackish brown, much flecked with pale fulvous scales on the sides and 

 with whitish scales beneath and at tip. Upper organ of male appendages (37:5,9) 

 roundly and strongly bent at base, beyond straight; hook scarcely a fourth the length 

 of the centrum, being exceptionally brief, curved, gently tapering to a blunt point as 

 seen from the side, semi-ovate, not much longer than broad as seen from above, with a 

 slight median sulcus ; lateral arms slender, gently tapering, pointed, curved slightly 

 upward. Clasps nearly twice as long as their basal breatlth, reaching backward nearly as 

 far as the upper organ, tapering regularly, the upper edge sharply though only slightly 

 excised next the inner base of the inner spine, the upper apex, including the apical spines, 

 incurved, the spines of about equal size and separated by a narrow space, perhaps 

 equal to the middle width of one of the spines ; the recurved edge of the lower margin 

 has a single denticle next the apical spines. 



