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it, is a V-sliaped band of equal width, openinj^ inward ; in the middle 

 of tiie cell, a rather broad arcuate patch, opening outward, depends 

 from the sub-costal nervure. but does nut reach the median, and next 

 to, and separated but little from it, is a slender lunule opening inward, 

 and forming the outer limit, at this point, of the general duskiness of 

 the base of the wing ; at the first divarication of the median nervure 

 there starts downward a narrow streak, suddenly bent inward at right 

 angles, generally produced outward slightly at the angle ; the outer 

 border of the wing is narrowly, but distinctly edged with black, next 

 to which is a row of slender, not very pointed, sagittate spots, enclos- 

 ing between them and the border a row of fulvous spots, usually en- 

 tirely continuous, and generally of a lighter color than the other 

 parts of the wing; midway between the border and the mesial band, 

 not so arcuate as the border, is a row of round black spots, very 

 slightly larger toward the inner border, the lowermost a little outside 

 the curve; midway between this and the mesial banil, on the costal 

 border, is a narrow dusky patch, crossing the subcostnl ncrvules. A 

 broad, mesial, transverse band crosses the hind winf/s, the outer nar- 

 row, black border of wliicli takes the following direction : it crosses 

 the costo-subcostal intersj)ace at two-fifths the di^tance i'rom the base, 

 follows along the upper subcostal nervule outward to a point opposite 

 the middle of the costal border, crosses the next interspace at right 

 angles to the nervures and the succeeding very obliquely outward, 

 continuing along the lowest subcostal nervule and crossing obliquely 

 the subcosto-median interspace at about one-fourth of the distance 

 from the cell ; thence crossing the next two interspaces by two cres- 

 cents opening inward, each successively nearer the base, it is lost in 

 the duskiness of the inner border; its interior border takes a direc- 

 tion in general parallel to this, and there is beside's a transverse streak 

 crossing the extremity of the cell ; within this mesial band the base of 

 the wing is very dusky, almost black, except generally some fulvous 

 spots towai'd the costal border ; the band itself is sometimes almost 

 entirely black, but generally encloses between the black nervules 

 ochraceo-fulvous spots of variable size; the outer border of the wing 

 is much as in the fore wings, but the lulvous spots between the mar- 

 gin and the ariow-head spots, are less frequently continuous, generally 

 lozenge-shaped and of a slightly lighter tint, generally ochraceo-ful- 

 vous ; midway between the border and the mesial band is an arcuate 

 band of round, equal, black spots, separated toward the base by a 

 narrow, faint, ochraceo-fulvous band, from a series of faint dusky cres- 



