PAl'ILK) INDKA. itKAKurr. 



rilOC. EXT. SOC. PHIL, \T. j.. l-'3, 1800. 



Male. Expands 3 inches. 



Antenna", liead and tliorax black, two small yellow spots behind the eyes, sides of collar 

 and i(atay,i;e dull yellow; abdomen black with a yellow dash on each side of the anal segment. 



Upper surface black, jirimaries with a sub-marginal row of eight pale yellow lunate spots 

 ■wliieli become gradually smallei- as they approach the posterior angle; also a band of nine 

 larger spots of same color, extending from costa to inner margin, the second one haying a black 

 mark on the inner end ; disco-cellular neryules defined by a yellow line. 



Secondaries haye the yellow band of the primaries continued ; this band is diyided by the 

 black yeins into seyen parts, the three nearest to the costal and the two nearest to inner margin 

 are of parallelogram form, and pretty much of one size; the two remaining parts, laying be- 

 tween the second sub-costal and third median ycinlets are of irregular shape, extending in 

 obtuse points beyond the line of the others ; along the outer margin are fiye yellow spots, the 

 one nearest the outer angle is a mere dot ; the next, which is the largest, is oyal, and the 

 three remaining ones are lunate ; the anal spot is large, fulyons, and encloses a black pupil ; 

 in the space between the inner band and sub-marginal spots is a sciics of clusters of blue scales, 

 almost obsolete towartis the eosta, but Ijecoming more distinct as they approach the interior 

 margin, where the last and best defined one surmounts the anal ocellus; eniarginations regular 

 and pale yellow, the tail, if it deserye such a distinction, is but little more than a tooth. 



Under surface, ground color, paler, that of markings much the same as on upper surface ; 

 on the primaries the sub-marginal lunules are larger than above ; the inner band remains the 

 same; on secondaries the markings of the upper side are also reproduced, with the addition of 

 one more lunulc placed between the iirst and second median neryules, also, the one nearest tlio 

 outer angle, which is on the upper surface indicated by a mere yellow dot, is here adyanced to 

 the dignity of a respectable sized crescent, tinged in the middle with fulvous ; some greyish 

 yellow scales are in conjunction with the blue ones intermediate between the lunular and mesial 

 bands. 



Of the female I am not fortunate enough to be able to say anything, for the one reason, 

 that, as far as I am aware of, no examples of the sex have yet turned up ; all the specimens I 

 know of being the males in the museums of the Am. Ent. Soc, W. H. Edwards and myself, 

 which -were taken by Mr. Ridings at Pike's Peak, Colorado, in 1861, nor has any collector 

 since been lucky enough to obtain it. 



Mr. Reakirt in his description of this species in the Proc. Ent. Soc. says : " I cannot 

 reconcile this beautiful species with Dr. Boisduval's description of Pap. Aristor Godt." neither 

 can I nor do I think it was much worth the while to say so considering that Pap. Aristor 

 is described as a tailed species with a band of five spots, some red, some yellow on the under 



