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IX. ON SOME SPECIES OF NISONIADES. 



Nisoniades Pacuvius n. sp. 



Head and palpi thickly clothed with bristling brown and 

 gray hairs, the obtuse tip of the third joint of the palpi only 

 visible ; antennse brown above, the joints bordered with white 

 beneath and within. Thorax and abdomen beneath with long 

 brownish hairs; legs brown with pale hairs at their joints. 



Wings approaching those of N. Persius in shape, but the 

 primaries somewhat narrower. 



Primaries umber-brown, mottled with black as in Martialis ; 

 near each extremity of the cell, conspicuously marked with a 

 large black spot, the outer one having the hyaline white cellu 

 lar spot on its outer margin. A row of black spots cross the 

 nervules, upon which are the following white hyaline spots : 

 four costo-apical ones, of which the costal one is scarce more 

 than a dot, the second, the largest and quadrate, the third and 

 fourth quite small, with their longest diameter in the direc 

 tion of the breadth of the wing ; in cells 2 and 3 each, a tri 

 angular spot with the apex directed toward the outer margin 

 of the wing that in cell 2 but partially hyaline ; in cell 1 b, 

 two triangular spots (not hyaline), marked with white scales 

 so obscurely in the somewhat imperfect specimen, that pos 

 sibly they may not prove a constant feature. Some white 

 hairs and scales separate this row of black spots from a sub- 

 terminal row of rounded black spots, which is again separated 

 by a few similar white scales from the black terminal margin. 

 Fringes umber-brown, their base cut by some white scales 

 projected from the black margin. 



Secondaries fuscous, faintly marked by some brown spots 

 and an indistinct subterminal row of brown dots. Fringes 

 snow-white with some brown scales of the terminal margin 

 cutting their base, and at the apical angle of the wing, extend 

 ing nearly to their outer edge. 



Beneath, primaries pale brown, the hyaline spot in cell 3 

 showing conspicuously, and with white scales covering the 

 extreme apical portion of the wing. Secondaries reddish 



