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convex and their outer concave ; they are as broad as the interspace and longer than 

 broad ; in the same line, but below the outer edge of tlie median spots, more illy de- 

 fined, small, triangular spots occur in the upper and lower halves of the interspace 

 below, the upper often obsolete and both more tinged with tawny than the other spots 

 ( ? ) ; or, the basal two-thirds of tlie wing, marked by the same limitations as the 

 outer edges of the spots in the female, is copper-tawny, excepting, of course, the sexual 

 dash, and excepting also the nervures above tiie middle median nervule, the upper 

 interspace beyond the cell, the costal edge, and occasionally also the whole costal 

 border to the subcostal nervure, excepting the spots, wliich would then wholly corres- 

 pond, save in depth of color, to the upper subcostal spots of the female; all tliese are 

 of the color of the outer margin ; Ijut the upper interspace beyond the cell is some- 

 times flecked with tawny, especially outwardly and sometimes the upper half of the 

 interspace below is also blackish ; tlie extreme base of the wing is much begrimed 

 with dusky scales so as to leave it but little tawnier than in the other sex ; the sexual 

 dash (43:10) is velvety black and consists of two oval patches, each a little more 

 than twice as long as broad, almost in continuity, but the innermost sliglitly lower 

 than the other, extending from the final divarication of tlie median nervure to the 

 middle of the basal two-thirds of the submediau nervure (S)- Basal third of fringe 

 blackish, beyond pale dusky, often tinged slightly with tawny. Hi7ul wings of tlie 

 same color as the fore wings, the lower half of the wing, excepting the basal third, 

 covered with rather profuse greenish tawny hairs, a little duller in the female than in 

 the male; either furnished with a transverse series of three or four pale tawny longi- 

 tudinal dashes in the middle of the subcostal and median interspaces, those in the 

 interspaces beyond the cell twice as long as the others and approximate, the outer 

 limit of all forming a regular curving line subparallel to the outer border at a little 

 beyoud the middle of the outer two-thirds of the wing ( ? ) ; or, these same spots are 

 present, but nearly or quite as bright tawny as the brigliter parts of tlie fore wing, 

 and bleuded into an area cut only by the dusky nervures, and tliose of the interspaces 

 beyond the cell often completely united; sometimes, however, the wing is almost 

 wholly Immaculate ($)■ Fringe, as in the fore wing, but more often tinged with 

 tawny. 



Beneath : Fore wings blackish fuliginous, the costal Ijorder and whole apex heavily 

 flecked with cinnamoneous tawny, the patch extending down the outer border, narrow- 

 ing as it goes, to the tip of the lower median nervule; the spots of the upper surface 

 of the female are repeated in both sexes beneath, and the nervules in the outer third 

 of the wing, especially below, are often flecked lightly witli pale ochreous scales; in 

 the male the reverse of the sexual dash is black, rather than fuliginous. Fringe black- 

 ish at the base, beyond dusky, but below the lowest median nervule pale, often tinged 

 with tawny. Sind wings cinnamoneous tawny, more or less obscured by dusky, upon 

 which the spots of the upper surface of the female appear in both sexes as dull tawny 

 with obscure outlines ; the united spots of the interspaces beyond the cell often extend 

 vaguely toward the base and the medio-submedian interspace is often sufi'used from 

 base to border with a similar, though not so distinct a tinge, making two broad rays 

 of tawny along the wing ; the veins are generally flecked with pale bufl' scales. Fringe 

 blackish on the basal third, Ijeyond obscure tawny, clearer next the inner margin. 



Abdomen blackish brown above, overlaid at base by grayish green hairs ; lower part 

 of the sides tawny, merging into lemon yellow beneath. Appendages of the male 

 (37:30) with the upper organ not so long as the clasps, the hook, as seen from 

 above, equal throughout, the tips slender, cylindrical, separated by twice their 

 own diameter, straight; lateral arms free only from the base of the separated tips of 

 the hooks and then forming a common, depressed, straight or slightly twisted blade, 

 extending beyond the hook and split down the middle. Clasps much more than twice 

 as long as broad, of nearly equal width throughout, but with a deep pre-mesial oblique 

 slit, just beyond which the upper edge is distinctly lobed and incurved ; apex angu- 

 late but barely pointed above. 



