354 I'HE BUTTERFLIES OF THE 



ing of a series of intervenular, somewhat sagittate spots. 

 Fringes white, cut with black at the ends of the veins. 



Under side a little paler than the upper, sprinkled 

 over with white scales so as to be grayish brown. The 

 spots of the fore wings are repeated, but enlarged and 

 coalescing. The hind wings have three distinct bands 

 of white, one near the base which does not show on 

 the upper side, consisting of three patches united ; the 

 middle one enlarged and blended ; the subterminal one 

 not much more prominent than on the upper siu'face. 



Body black above, with gray hairs, the scales and hairs 

 below white ; antennae annulate with black and white; tip 

 of club ferruginous. 



New York, West Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado. 



179. NisoNiADES Brizo, Bd. — Lee. 



Expanse of wings from 1.3 to 1.5 inches. 



Upper surface dark brown, the outer portion of the fore 

 wings sprinkled with gray. Near the outer margin of 

 the fore wings is a row of small gray spots, and between 

 these and the cell is a row of larger contiguous gray 

 spots, varying from oval to orbicular, bordered, except 

 where they come together, by a line of darker brown 

 than the ground color ; the spots of the upper end of the 

 row have the brown pointed outwardly. A similar row 

 crosses the wing about through the middle, but this has 

 no points on the outside; and there is a dark spot at 

 the base of the cell. The hind wings have two wavy 

 rows of ochre-yellow spots, which are dull and ob- 

 scure. 



Under side a little paler than the upper, with two rows 

 of white spots parallel with the outer margin, common 



