PAMI'llILlDl: KRYNNIS METEA. 



1651 



Between the sexual band and the marginal obfuscation tlie wing is fulvous. Hind 

 icings blackish fuscous obscured, except broadly along the costal border and very 

 narrowly along the median ncrvure, by long, greenish fulvous hairs and fulvous scales, 

 and brightened near the outer margin l)y an abruptly bent, rather conspicuous band, 

 corresponding to the one on the under surface, of yellowish ami fulvous scales, oblit- 

 erated below the first median ncrvnle; both wings edged narrowly with black along 

 the outer border; Wie fringe asliy at base, dirty white at tip. 



Beneatli,/yre icfni/s with the general position of the markings as upon the upper sur- 

 face; the basal part of the wing is bhacklsh brown, obscured by slender, longitudinal 

 streaks of fulvous scales and hairs along the costal border ; apical portion of wing, 

 exclusive of the whitish spots, which replace, but more largely, the whitish fulvous 

 spots of the upper surface, pale brow^n, with pale fulvous scales interspersed; the 

 large spot in the median Held Is whitish, tinged faintly with fulvous, and reaches the 

 border near the inner angle. Jlitid icinfjs i\ark brown, with paler brown and fulvous 

 scales sparsely interspersed; faint spots of pearly white scales are found on the cos- 

 tal border near the base, and just below the apical half of the cell, extending also into 

 the cell; a few white scales follow the internal vein, but the most conspicuous of all 

 is a broad, transverse band of pearly white scales, somewhat obscured in the costal 

 region by very pale pearly brown scales ; the inner edge of this band arises near the 

 middle of the costal border and passes in a series of gentle waves, the general direc- 

 tion of which is a nearly straight line, subparallel to the submedian nervure, to the 

 middle of the interspace between the last branches of the subcostal, at about two- 

 thirds the distance from the divarication to the outer edge; here it is abruptly bent at 

 much less th.in a right angle, and passes in a series of very gentle curves in a general 

 slightly bowed direction, scarcely subpai-allel to the outer border, and terminates at 

 the submedian nervure; the outer edge of the band is subparallel to the inner, but 

 more irregular in outline, and is bent at about a right angle ; the band is broadest in 

 the costal field and reaches the border in the last interspace internally ; near the middle 

 of the costal border an ovate brownish spot is included between the transverse band 

 and the costal spot of white scales ; the anal border and the anal angle are largely 

 sprinkled with fulvous scales. 



Abdomen purplish black, obscured by long, dark greenish and greenish yellow hairs, 

 beneath whitish, the apices of the segments above and at sides frequently marked by 

 fulvous aud paler scales. Last segment of male cylindrical, densely covered with 

 long, fulvous and black scales, which extend beyond the edge of the segment by nearly 

 the length of the latter, and leave an obscure terminal opening; when denuded, the 

 segment is seen to be obliquely docked, and the appendages (37:0) protrude slightly 

 beyond the terminal orifice. The upper organ is nearly twice as long as broad, taper- 

 ing from a little before the middle, the sides of the centrum expanding, just before its 

 extremity, into a rounded lobe, abrupt anteriorly, the hook preserving the curve of 

 the centrum and tapering, at first rapidly, afterwards more gently ; lateral arms not 

 nearly so broad at the base as the hook, tapering regularly to a point. Clasps fully half 

 as long again as the basal breadth, the inner spine the longer, both a little incurved 

 and finely pointed, separated from each other by more than the width of their base. 



Accessory sexual peculiarities. The discal stigma of the male has been described 

 under the wings ; the scales contained in it consist of jointed threads with uniform 

 slender joints (48: 7 c), accompanied by a very varied assortment of subspatulate 

 or spatulate rods and elongated scales ; sometimes also trilobed, those in the inner 

 stigma being figured at 7 i, k, 1, those in the outer stigma at 7 e, h ; the upper base of 



