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of Clyton, but the colors are all intense; the cell and 

 nearly all the spots of the fore wings buff, the extra 

 discal area deep ferruginous; the basal area of hind 

 wings deep gray-brown, tinted with ferruginous next the 

 costa and towards the anal angle. The sinuous discal 

 stripe is deep ferruginous, as is also the field on which 

 are the ocelli, and between this stripe and field the space 

 is lilaciuous ; the ocelli intense ferruginous, with obsolete 

 rings, and lilaciuous pupils. On both wings the broad 

 marginal band is cut by a conspicuous blue-black stripe 

 from the anal angle to the second subcostal venule on the 

 fore wings. This stripe is so expanded next the posterior 

 angle of the fore wings as to occupy full half the width 

 of the band. 



Female. — Duller colored, but as little obscured as the 

 male. The fore wings are crossed by a broad, sinuous, 

 deep black discal band, which in the usual Clyton is 

 brown or ferruginous, and the bars in the cell are black 

 and heavy. A broad submarginal black stripe com- 

 pletely crosses both wings, the margin outside this stripe 

 being ferruginous, concolored with the cell. The cre- 

 nated line is absent from the hind wings even at the 

 outer angle. 



This description is slightly modified from Mr. Ed- 

 wards's description as given in " Butterflies of North 

 America," vol. ii. The following description of the pre- 

 paratory stages is from the same author in the " Canadian 

 Entomologist" for May, 1881. 



The egg is similar to that of Clyton, nearly spherical, 

 flattened at base, marked by eighteen or twenty slightly 

 prominent vertical ribs and many fine equidistant striae : 

 3olor yellow-green. 



