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cents, which form a slender transverse band, bent and generally inter- 

 rupted in the middle. Fringe pale oehraceous, interrupted with black 

 at the extremities of the nervules, longer on secondaries. 



Beneath. Fore v-ings pale fulvous, deej)est at the base, the u)ark- 

 ings of the basal half of upper surface repented ; the outer border 

 has a narrow line of deep fulvous or black, next to which is a rather 

 broad oehraceous band, more or less interrupted at the nervures, ex- 

 cept at apex, with fulvous fading into pale fulvous toward inner bor- 

 der, surrounded with slight, sagittate, dusky spots, distinct only in 

 the middle ; the arcuate row of black spots of the upper surface is 

 repeated, the upper ones pupillcd faintly with white ; midway be- 

 tween this row and the mesial band on the costal border is a rather 

 faint narrow patch of pale cinnamon-red, dividing a broad patch of 

 oehraceous; between this and the apex is a quadrate patch of pale 

 cinnamon-red. Bind wmr/s cinnamon-red; the mesial band is a rep- 

 etition of that above, very pale straw-color, occasionally whitish, nar- 

 rowly edged with black; a rather large spot of same color between 

 each of the uervures at the base, that in the costo-subcostal inter- 

 space smallest; another spot above the costal nervure; the outer 

 border is very narrowly margined with black, upon which is a row of 

 silvery-white spots, rather large, pointed inward and margined nar- 

 rowly with black : midway between the outer border and the mesial 

 band is an arcuate band of round silvery-white spots, bordered with 

 black; above this a narrow band of oehraceous, regularly crenulated, 

 and occasionally bordered with dusky scales toward the base, extend- 

 ing downwards in the subcosto-median and upper median interspaces 

 to the black borders of the marginal silvery spots, but more or less 

 mingled with reddish scales. 



Body covered above with fulvous, below with ochraceo-fulvous 

 hairs; legs pale cinnamon-red, femora with oehraceous and black 

 hairs; palpi covered with mingled fulvous and black hairs; stalk of 

 antennffi fulvous, black above, interrupted with white at the base of 

 the joints; club of antennae black, apex fulvous. Expanse of wings 

 45 mm. The males and females do not differ. 2 d, 2 ?, Caribou 

 Island, Straits of Belle Isle, Labrador, (A. S. Packard, Jr., S. R. 

 Butler). Specimens have also been taken at Mackenzie River (W. 

 H. Edwards) and in Colorado (T. L. Mead). 



]SIany years ago I distributed specimens of this butterfly under the 

 MS. name of Arg. Lais. 



