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costal one small, the second long and ovate, the third and fifth 

 about the size of that on the costa, the fourth minute. 



Secondaries pure white, with a few black scales at the base 

 of the median vein ; and sometimes in specimens which are very- 

 dark beneath, there are visible portions of the submarginal band, 

 as seen beneath. 



Beneath, the primaries show the same general markings, but 

 the white spots in the apical black patch are much larger, with 

 more diffuse margins, and are increased to six in number by the 

 addition of one between the first and second at the extreme tip 

 of the wing. 



Secondaries pure white ; all the veins black, with a narrow 

 submarginal band, most remote from the margin about the mid- 

 dle of the outer edge. Occasionally the veins are intensely black, 

 with the scales spreading more or less over the disc of the wing, 

 in which case there are many powdery black scales, most con- 

 centrated along the outer and inner margins, the former in this 

 case having a narrow terminal black line. Fringes white. 



In occasional specimens there are traces along the costa and 

 on the outer margin between the nervules, of the red markings 

 so characteristic of the female. 



? . — The primaries differ from the $ by the extension of the 

 black apical patch to the inner angle, it gradually narrowing 

 thereto from the second median nervule, and containing a small 

 white spot between the first and second median nervules. The 

 same ornamentation is repeated beneath. 



The secondaries above are white, with a marginal and sub-mar- 

 ginal narrow black band. The nervules, black between these 

 bands, dividing the enclosed space into six unequal lunules, as in 

 the male beneath. The outer band sometimes faintly inter- 

 rupted between the veins with a few orange or brick-red scales. 



Beneath, all the veins are broadly black, as are both the outer 

 bands, reducing the white spaces to a series of narrow inter- 

 venular patches and six reduced outer lunules, giving the wing a 

 very gray appearance. On many specimens there is no red at 

 all ; on others the whitish costal openings and a small patch in 

 the terminal black band between each of the nervules is a brick- 

 red. 



Habitat. Country round Spokane Falls, Washington Terri- 

 tory, July 26. 



Alar. exp. $ . ? 2.00 to 2.20 in. 



Mr. Strecker's figure very fairly represents the upper side of 

 the females here described, but the under side is totally unlike, so 

 far as the secondaries are concerned. In all I have seen from the 

 locality quoted there is more black than white on the secondaries 

 beneath. None of them have so much red ; many none at all, and 

 not one shows any trace of the streak near the inner margin. As 

 I have not access to the description of the ? by Felder, I forward 



