PAMnilLIDI: POLITES PECKIUS. 



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space ; the spot in the costo-subcostal interspace is seldom present, and when it occurs 

 is very small, its outer limit on a line with the interior limit of the spot below, which 

 occupies the middle third of llic suljcostal interspace; that in the interspace Ix'vond 

 the cell is longest, being usually twice as long as broad, divided longitudinally in the 

 middle by a dusky line, and distant from the tip of the cell and the border of the wing 

 by about the width of the interspace; the one below occnpies the basal two-flfths of 

 the upper metlian interspace, while that in the lower median interspace extends 

 further toward the base and to a similar point outwardly ; the spot in the upper half of 

 the medio-submediau interspace is seldom present, and then often obscure, ahvays 

 small, just below- the one above it; occasionally, also, there is a small, tawny spot in 

 the lower half of the cell, just above the base of tlie lowest median nervule. Fringe 

 as on the fore wings. 



Beneath : Fore icings dark fuliginous brown, the upper half and the outer margin 

 much glossed with tawny, often giving it a cinnamoneous tint ; the markings of the 

 upper surface of the female repeated beneath in yellow in both sexes ; outer margin 

 with a. slender blackish edge, the fringe much as above. Hind wings mostly occupied 

 by two large, broad, sharply defined bands of deep straw yellow, often confluent in the 

 middle of the wing; otherwise the wing is ferruginous or cinnamoneous, enlivened 

 witli Hushes of fulvous or tawny in small interspaceal spots seated on the outer border ; 

 the inner of the two yellow bands runs parallel to the inner border, its interior margin 

 nearly touching the base, its upper limit at au equal distance from the costal margin, 

 or midway between the costal nervure and the costal margin; its exterior margin 

 parallel to its interior, but usually irregular or crenate, directed toward and usually 

 reaching the second divarication of the median nervure; here it is usually connected 

 more or less closely with the outer band ; not infrequently the basal band is confluent 

 with the other throughout the whole lower half of the exterior margin of the former, 

 and sometimes it touches it only at its lower extremity and in the middle of its exterior 

 margin ; the outer band is transverse, arcuate, subparallel to the outer border, very 

 broad and reaches from the costal to the submedian nervure; its breadth is unequal, 

 tapering a little toward the inner border, and in the interspace beyond the cell abruptly 

 broadened, often to twice, rarely even to thrice, thebreadthof the adjoining parts, occu- 

 pying Che basal three-fourths of the interspace or even almost touching the outer mar- 

 gin ; next the costal margin it terminates squarely against the nervure ; below it is 

 rounded ; the upper half of its exterior border usually consists of a series of angular 

 steps successively further from the base, while the lower half is continuous; in the 

 lower median interspace the interior edge of the band almost always extends toward the 

 base of the wing, occupying the whole base of the interspace and thus connecting with 

 the basal band; usually the bands are unbroken, but occasionally the nervures which 

 traverse them are dusky ; the outer margin edged delicately with a blackish line ; the 

 fringe much as upon the upper surface. 



Abdomen blackish brown above, enlivened with tawny hairs, especially on the lower 

 half of the sides, the apical half of the joints and the apical half of the abdomen. Be- 

 neath pale yellowish brown, with a gi-eenish tinge. Male appendages (37 : 24, 25) with 

 the centrum of the upper organ composed almost wholly of the lateral walls ; hook 

 scarcely arched and just before the tip slightly upcurved, tapering only just beyond 

 the middle, three or four times as long as broad. Clasps three times as long as broad, 

 very simple; lower border a little convex, the upper a little concave, the upper pos- 

 terior angle a little less than a right angle, the extremity of the upper margin incurved 

 to form a minute, horizontal, spatulate, lobe-like expansion. 



Described from 131 3 , 71 9 • 



