366 ^^^ 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 A^evius by its larger size, more distinct mark- 

 ings, and the contrasting lighter shade of the palpi. 



Indian River, Florida. 



188. NisoxiADES NiEVius, Lintn. 



Expanse of wings from 1.45 to 1.G5 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 

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

 cell. An irregular umber-brown spot centres on tlie 

 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 ro^vs 

 of intervenular paler brown spots, more distinctly in the 

 female. Fringes dark brown, lighter upon their outer 

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

 female. 



