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white, with an intermixture of black hairs. Thorax of a deep 

 maroon red, overlaid with grayish hair. Patagiaj black, overlaid 

 with long grayish hair. Abdomen very pilose, being, as well as 

 the male tuft, of the brightest rust red color, but having a lateral 

 layer of blackish hair from first to fourth segments. 



Beneath the thorax is rusty red and the abdomen deep black, 

 with a sprinkling of short whitish hair on the segments. The 

 heavy pilose covering of the up])er part of the abdomen and the 

 anal tuft overlapping the sides, giving it the appearance of a heavy 

 rust red fringe. Legs black, femora heavily furred Avith rusty red 

 and the tibiae having a light black and white hairy tuft. 



Primaries opaque brownish black, the costa and fringes being 

 concolorous. The space near anterior margin sparsely powdered 

 with white scales, hardly perceptible. A transverse, small discal 

 spot of light yellow, surrounded by a broad black patch or ring. 

 A transverse extra mesial band of grayish white, starting from sub- 

 costal vein and resting on submedian vein. The band is of quite 

 irregular shape, being broadest at the space between discal spot and 

 exterior margin, and narrowest at the intersection of median veins. 

 The inner part of this mesial band, between discal spot and base, 

 being obliterated and indicated only by a grayish white crescent 

 line, just sufficient to round off the shape of the black halo sur- 

 rounding the discal spot. A whitish subcostal line, commencing at 

 base of wing, and terminating within half of the space between 

 base and discal spot. Costa somewhat concave in the middle. All 

 the veins crossing the mesial band appear black. 



Secondaries black, opaque, with concolorous fringes. A mini- 

 mal discal spot of light yellow with darker indications of a sur- 

 rounding black patch. 



Beneath the wings as above, the mesial band of primaries 

 being dirty gray, and the subcostal vein of primaries, as well as the 

 subcostal and discoidal veins of secondaries, being indicated by light 

 yellow lines. 



Expands. 1^-2^ inches. 



Length of body. ^-^ inch. 



? . Thorax dark brown-red, heavily overtufted with black and 

 white hair. Patagia^ M'ith very heavy black and white tufts. Ab- 

 domen black with short grayish white hair on segments and an anal 

 tuft of bright rusty red with an upper layer of gray and white 

 hair. 



Primaries as in the $ , the middle of the costa also somewhat 

 concave, the extra mesial band broader, and the sub-costal white 

 line from base towards the middle of the wing more conspicuous 

 than in ^ . The powdering of whitish scales between discal spot 

 and anterior margin also more pronounced. 



Secondaries brownish black with concolorous fringes. An 

 extremely small, light yellow discal dot ; its tint being nearly suf- 

 fused by the darker black of its surrounding halo. An indication 



