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of elongate spots on the upper side of the hind wings, 

 seen fairly only in certain lights. 



Body above dark brown, lighter beneath. 



Atlantic States, Mississippi Valley, Texas. 



146. Pamphila Peckius, Kirby. 



Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



Female. — Upper surface dark blackish brown, the 

 markings dark yellow, slightly fulvous-tinted; there 

 is a slight sprinkling of yellow scales over the surface, 

 especially the basal portion. The mark- 

 ings of the fore wings are : a slight ray Fig. 84. 

 in the upper part of the cell, and traces 

 of one in the lower part ; and a broken 

 band of seven spots beyond the middle, 

 the two opposite the cell beyond the line 

 of the others. The first three of these Rimphiia iv-ciuus, 

 spots are oblong in the subcostal inter- 

 spaces; the next four mostly quadrate; sometimes the 

 fourth of the seven is wanting, and there are occasionally 

 a few scales on the. submedian vein in line with the last 

 spots. Hind wings with a band of five spots, in width 

 about one-fourth the length of the wing ; spots 3 and 

 4 the largest. 



Under side fulvous brown, the basal half of the fore 

 wings fuscous ; the spots of the fore wings are repeated, 

 lighter yellow, there being eight of them instead of seven. 

 The hind wings have two broad pale yellow bands, a 

 little irregular in outline, the lower part of the inner 

 often united with the middle of the outer, as in Fig. 84. 



Male. — Of the same color as the female, the basal two 

 thirds of the fore wings heavily washed with yellow ; 



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