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triangular, traverses the middle of the wing, which partly includes, and is 

 partly edged, by a sickle-shaped silvery streak ; the part representing the 

 handle of the sickle being broader than the rest, and sending forth 

 externally near its apex a short branch, which, with the internal apex of 

 the handle, forms a fork ; the inner tine, or branch, of which terminate; 

 in a slend.r line running in a curve to the costal margin, where it touches 

 the scutellum ; a lirown indistinct cloud, or band, also runs obliquely from 

 the anal to the apical angle of the wing ; a very minute, pale streak marks 

 it just transversely above the former angle ; the posterior margin is slightly 

 indented ; the secondary wings are reddish-brown, with an obsolete, pale, 

 submarginai band. 



432. I'LusiA 101 A Linn. — Expansion of wings i^ inch. Taken in 

 Nova Scotia by Dr. Mac CuUoch and in Canada by Dr. Eiigsby. 



[309.] Body, legs and antennas fawn-colored, as are likewise the paler 

 parts of the wings ; primaries clouded and streaked with dark, and reddish- 

 brown ; the disk of these wings is occupied by a large cloud of this color 

 inscribed with two, sometimes silvery, and sometmies golden, brilliant 

 metallic spots, tending to form an obtuse angle with each other ; the upper 

 one, or that nearest tiie base of the wing bemg acuminated towards that 

 part, rounded towards the apex, and sending forth two branches towards 

 the costal area ; the lower spot is subtriangular or V-shaped, with the 

 point towards the base of the wings ; the two together form, in some sort, 

 a semicolon reversed ; between the lower or ovate spot and the costa is a 

 rather indistinct circlet of gold or silver, and two streaks of the same 

 lustre may be traced lower down between it and the inner margin of the 

 wing ; the disk near the apex is bronzed ; from the brown cloud men- 

 tioned above runs a wavy brown streak to the external apical angle, the 

 apex itself is terminated by a band formed by indistinct black crescents ; 

 and above the streak is a transverse band formed by two faint lines of 

 dark indistinct crescents including a pale band ; secondary wings darker 

 at the apex. 



N. B. In the Nova Scotia specimens the discoidal spots are silvery, 

 while in that trom Canada their lustre is golden. The synonymy of this 

 species seems very doubtful ; the metallic signature can scarcely be said 

 to represent either a mark of interrogation, or a Greek Iota reversed ; 

 they most resemble a semicolon. 



