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across wing at inner fourth on costa to inner third on dorsal margin, divided into 

 two parts by a narrow broken line of brown, and each side is divided by a leaden 

 metallic blue line; its inner edge is deeply excavated for more than half its length 

 in the middle, the outer edge sends an oblique spur through middle of cell and is 

 indented a quarter above dorsum. The outer fascia begins on costa a little beyond 

 middle in the form of two outwardly oblique costal dashes, which run into a flattened 

 ovate patch over end of cell, which sends out two spurs at right angles to each other, 

 one to the anal angle and one to dorsum at about two-thirds from base; the latter 

 sends a short spur obliquely upward at about the middle of its length, which almost 

 meets the outer spur of the inner fascia. This outer fascia, like the inner, is divided 

 by a narrow brown line and each side subdivided by leaden blue. From the costa 

 beyond this fascia are three geminate streaks, the two inner coalescing below and 

 sending a spur down to middle of wing at outer margin; between this spur and the 

 margin is a vertical geminate line. The basal area, within the inner fascia, contains 

 a roughly triangular pale patch of the same shade and construction as the fascise, 

 separating this from inner fascia is the ground color. Cilia fuscous, with a black 

 spot at apex, and two pink streaks below apex, and two pink streaks above anal 

 angle. The dark ground color, between the fascise is velvety black but more or less 

 heavily overlaid with ochreous red scales, in some specimen the overlaying scales 

 are rich Indian red. The fascise and spots are pale shining pinki.sh white and fuscous, 

 subdivided by shining leaden or steel blue. On the costa where these pale fasciae 

 and spots overlay it, the color is creamy white and there are six spots of this color. 

 In the specimens of the Indian red type, the thorax and head are several shades 

 darker than described and frequently the white scales are missing. 



Hind wing olivaceous brown, cilia white and patch above cell white; underside 

 creamv white mottled with fuscous at apex and below costa. Underside of fore 

 wing smoky fuscous with costal spots and spots in cilia repeated. 



Six specimens, bred from larv?e feeding on buckeye, collected by Mrs. 

 Beutenmiiller, May 18 



My notes on the larviie are uncertain, as two species were in the same 

 box but it is likely the. following may be applied to this species. "About 

 16 mm. long, very intense green, head and P. T. shield small and jet black, 

 slightly tapering to either end. Rolls and crumples the ends of the leaves 

 often involving more than one leaf." 



— Exartema merrickanum sp. nov. 

 Plate VIII, Fig. 1. 



Expanse 18 to 20 mm. 



Head yellowish-gray. Palpi whitish yellow, with a blotch of fuscous on outer 

 end of second joint, and a tiny dot of the same color at base, outside; apical joint 

 black. Thorax ashy gray mixed with olivaceous scales, posterior ends of patagia 

 and thoracic tuft white. Abdomen white on segment beneath thoracic tuft ; other 

 segments fuscous, shining; anal tuft ochreous-brown. 



Fore wing grayish white and olivaceous gray, with a dark shade from ba.se to 

 middle of costa and a large triangular patch of Indian red in apex, enclosing an o\'al 



