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form, narrowly edged before with black ; at the tips of the 

 veins, a row of subtriangular black spots. Legs, thorax and 

 abdomen clothed with long, white hairs. 



Female. Above uniformly brown, being without the inte- 

 rior violet-blue shade characterizing Scudderii ; a few (per- 

 haps twenty on each side) purple scales are to be seen beneath 

 the basilar portion of the median of the primaries and at the 

 base of the secondaries. On the primaries, a sub marginal 

 crescentiform fulvous band, which is more distinct between 

 the nervules of the median ; on the secondaries a submarginal 

 row of six semi-elliptical black spots, preceded by fulvous 

 crescents, and followed by a few pale scales. 



Beneath : on the primaries, the extradiscal row of black 

 spots rather weaker than in Scudderii (as also on the second- 

 aries), while the outer row of the submarginal series, which, in 

 that species is often obsolescent, is in this, well denned and of 

 nearly equal strength to the interior row. The secondaries 

 show but two of the usual four extrabasilar black spots ; the 

 remaining ornamentation much as in the other sex. 



Expanse of wings, $ , 1.30 inch ? , 1.25 inch. Length of 

 body, & , .5 inch $ , .44 inch. 



This species differs principally from the allied species with 

 which it is compared, in the black veins and brighter and 

 more glossy wings of the $ , and the uniform brown wings of 

 the ? , with its submarginal fulvous band on the primaries ; 

 in the stronger submarginal spots of the lower surface, and 

 the weaker interior spots ; the more numerous metallic scales 

 and their peculiar hue ; the shape of the fulvous crescents 

 and the narrowness of the black lines bordering them ; the 

 heavy black termination of the veins, etc. 



The secondaries are more prolonged on the sub median 

 nervure, giving to the anal angle a greater prominence. 



Hab.y etc. Mendocino, California. Two examples. Collec- 

 tion of W. H. Edwards. 



Pamphila Osceola n. sp. 



Wings above dark glossy brown as in P. Metacomet ; outer 

 margin blackish -brown ; fringes, dark brown. 



Male : primaries with some dull yellowish scales on the 

 inner half of the costa, on the outer side of the discoidal stig. 

 ma, and within it between the median and submedian nervures. 

 Discoidal stigma velvety-black, consisting of two acutely ellip- 



