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in zigzag, the upper and lower narrower than the middle one, the up- 

 per crossing the upper median nervule very obliquely, the middle one 

 crossing at right angles the upper median interspace, while the third 

 crosses very obliquely the middle median nervule and extends to its 

 attachment ; from just beyond this attachment, the lower third of the 

 band commences ; it is broader than any of the other parts of the 

 band, and extends to the submedian nervure, beyond that being 

 merged into the general duskiness of the internal border; it is formed 

 of two halves in the two interspaces which it crosses, the upper half 

 being directed outward more than the lower, and the upper part of 

 the lower removed outward beyond the lower part of the upper by 

 about half the width of the band ; but sometimes they are more 

 closely united ; the lower half sends inwards a point or narrow streak 

 from its middle. Within the mesial band just described are three 

 equidistant transverse parallel bands crossing the cell; the outer and 

 an.l narrowest follows the outer bordei- and is twice as broad above as 

 below ; the nervures between it and the mesial band are black and 

 marked a little more heavily than those of other parts of the wing ; 

 the middle one is constricted in the middle ; its lower extremity rests 

 upon the median nervure between its two divarications; the inner 

 one is simple, and there is still another at a similar distance toward 

 the base, the outer border only of which is manifest, the duskiness of 

 the base obscuring the rest ; there is also a more or less distinct \/- 

 shaped streak below the median nervure, the V directed to meet the 

 inward projection of the mesial band between the median and sub- 

 median nervures, the upper ones being a continuation of the third 

 transverse band of the cell, and the lower directed toward the in- 

 ner border at less than a right angje to the upper ai-m ; sometimes 

 this V-shaped streak is merged in the general duskiness of the base 

 of the wing, which latter is enlivened by long pale greenish-fulvous 

 hairs. There is a marginal row of blackish triangles, sometimes de- 

 veloped into sagittate spots, with their points directed outward, situ- 

 ated in each of the interspaces opening on the outer margin above the 

 submedian nervure. The space between these apd the border is filled 

 with commingled dusky and fulvous scales, the dusky scales predomi- 

 nating along the edge, forming a narrow blackish border, deepest 

 in the middle of the interspaces and the fulvous in excess in the 

 middle of tlie interspaces ; the whole, with the triangular spots, form- 

 ing a dusky border to the wing, slightly broader than the width of the 

 median interspaces at the margin of the wing. There is also a sub- 



