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Color of male, on both surfaces, similarly marked ; a few 

 black scales are scattered between the ends of the apical bars, sug- 

 gesting a cross band. 



From six examples, 3 <J 3 ? , taken by the late Mr. J. Boll, in 

 western Texas, March, 1878. Mr. Boll informed me, in answer 

 to my inquiry, that he took many more, and all were of the type 

 sent me. The species is nearest Olynipia, Edw., and the banding 

 of under side is of same character. It differs from that species 

 by the immaculate apex, and by the presence of the straight, ob- 

 lique costal bar, instead of an irregular patch. 



LlMENITIS HULSTII. 



Male. — Expands 2.75 inches. 



Apical area of primaries and all secondaries one shade, pale 

 red-fulvous, the remainder of primaries darker, and deepening 

 gradually from inner margin to cell and costa, where the color is 

 castaneous ; costal edge of primaries brown, inner margin red- 

 dish-brown ; hind margin broadly bordered with black, within 

 the inner edge of which is a row of crescent white spots, 

 or near costa rounded ; beyond cell are four sub-triangular 

 small white spots, one in the middle of each interspace, the 

 two upper ones on narrow, dark fulvous ground, the others 

 merely edged with this color; a white spot at origin of upper 

 sub-costal interspace; in ceil, next sub-costal, three-fourths 

 the distance from base to arc, a white point surrounded by 

 black scales. Secondaries have a broad black marginal border, 

 through which runs a series of white points ; across disk a macu 

 lar black line, broken at the nervules, widening next costa, 

 each spot edged on the inner side by white ; the nervures and 

 branches of both wings black, but not edged with black; fringes 

 alternately black and white. 



Under side of secondaries and of apex of prim.aries light 

 orange-fulvous, clouded, whitish along the nervules ; the re- 

 mainder of primaries much as above ; castaneous next base in 

 cell ; the black border crenated on inner side on both wings, • 

 the spots in same repeated, but now large crescents; between 

 these and the margins another row of narrow whitish crescents ; 

 the spots on primaries repeated, enlarged, edged on outer side by 

 deep brown, and a patch of same brown lies in lower median in- 

 terspace, in line ; a second spot in cell near base and next sub- 

 costal ; costa brown ; on secondaries the black line is continuous, 

 heavier, edged by white on inner side ; the nervures of both v. ings 

 black, without any edging of black scales. 



Body above covered with fulvous hairs, below black on thorax 

 with white spots on sides ; abdomen with a bwff lateral band and 

 another on venter, between them a black stripe ; legs black, the 

 first pair white in front ; palpi black, in front white, (antenncE in 

 example under view wanting). 



From a single male taken in Utah and sent me by Rev. Geo. 



