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rounded so as to form a hand with a crennlatcd honler; the !nner 

 Vow is formed of five cireidar or oval sjiots, of which the upper two 

 arc. situated midway l)etweeu the outer row and the tip of the cell, 

 while the lower three form a curving row beneath and a little within 

 these, the open part of the curve outward ; the tip of the cell is 

 marked by a distinct transverse black spot bordered narrowly with 

 pale crerulean. Hind wings : a dusky spot at the tip of the cell, as 

 in the fore winos of the female, but less distinct than there, and in 

 tlie male often obsolete ; a straight row of small circular dusky spots 

 crosses the wing, midway between the cell and the outer border, not 

 reaching cither border ; it is generally quite obsolete, always so in the 

 male; upon the outer border, which is edged with black, are seated 

 round pale cierulean spots, separated only by the nervules, extending 

 over the subcostal and median areas ; each spot encloses a dusky or 

 blackish spot, sometimes a mere dot, sometimes nearly usurping the 

 place of the whitish spots. These markings are sometimes sulmbso- 

 lete in the male, and generally less distinct there than in the female ; 

 fringe whitish. 



Lower surface. Fore winr/s pale slate brown, marked heavily with 

 white and spotted with black and fuscous ; at the tip of the cell 

 marked ilistinctly as it is above in tiie female, but bordered with 

 white in the middle of the cell a similar mark, except that the inner 

 black streak is generally broken in the middle ; sometimes one is ob- 

 solete or both are very faint, or, indeed, occasionally the whole mark- 

 ing is reduced to a faint whitish spot ; there is a submarginal row 

 of six broail, dusky, or fuscous lunules parallel to the outer margin, 

 their outer edge at least an interspace's distance from it; and mid- 

 way between this row and the tip of the cell a row of six black spots 

 enclosed in white, usually circular ; the fourth from the tip, however, 

 is sometimes triangular, and the last ordinarily transverse, or broken 

 into two suKiU ones, one above the other; the second and third are 

 parallel to the outer border outside of the spot terminating the cell, 

 and about midway between that and the submarginal band, though 

 usually slightly nearer the latter; the first is situated above the prin- 

 ciple subcostal nervure, nearer the base of the wing than the 

 second, and even in some cases nearly half way between this and that 

 at tip of cell ; the fourth is a little nearer the base of the wing than 

 tlie third, and usually just as much nearer as the first is nearer than 

 the second ; the fifth bears the same relation to the fourth as the 

 fourth to the third, and the sixth, in the medio-submedian interspace, 



