366 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE 



This is the largest species of the genus, and is sepa- 

 rable from Juvenalis and Propertius by its darker color, 

 less distinct ornamentation, less rounded wings, and the 

 absence of white spots of the hind wings in cells 6 and 

 7 ; from Ncevius by its larger size, more distinct mark- 

 ings, and the contrasting lighter shade of the palpi. 



Indian River, Florida. 



188. Nisoniades Ncevius, Lintn. 



Expanse of wings from 1.45 to 1.65 inches. 



Upper surface fuscous, almost black, with a purple 

 reflection. The fore wings have four minute, subquad- 

 rangular, costo-apical, hyaline spots, of which the fourth 

 may be obsolete, resting on the first four spots of the 

 submarginal band, and a similar spot on spot 7 of this 

 band, but none on spot 8 nor at the end of the discal 

 cell. An irregular umber-brown spot centres on the 

 discal cross- vein, and between the median and submedian 

 veins is another, showing more distinctly in the female. 

 The terminal row of obscure, rounded, intervenular fus- 

 cous spots rest on a dark umber-brown ground. All the 

 markings are nearly lost in the dark ground ; those best 

 defined are two confluent trapezoidal spots above the 

 submedian vein, forming the posterior termination of 

 the transverse row of spots, and defined without and 

 within by a W in umber-brown. The spots of the trans- 

 verse row are not of the ordinary sagittate form. The 

 hind wings dark brown, showing faintly the two rows 

 of intervenular paler brown spots, more distinctly in the 

 female. Fringes dark brown, lighter upon their outer 

 half in some males, and pale, approaching whitish, in the 

 female. 



