144 FIELD AND FOREST. 



Cybele, but sometimes encroached on by the ferruginous ground, so 

 that the buff area is restricted to the middle of the space, and there it 

 is more or less dusted with ferruginous scales, in these features re- 

 sembling Aphrodite ; the hind margin brown ; the spots sometimes well 

 silvered, sometimes imperfectly, and in this last case are bnff more 

 or less dusted with silver; the spots of the outer row are either lunular 

 or triangular, edged posteriorly with a fine black line, and anteriorly by 

 brown; the second row consists of seven spots, the first three from 

 costa and fifth long oval, equal ; the fourth minute ; the sixth semi- 

 oval ; the seventh irregularly lunate ; all edged with black above ; the 

 third row of three, of which the outer ones are lunular ; the middle 

 one a truncated pyramid ; all edged above with black ; a round spot in 

 cell and an oval below, both in black rings ; a patch at base of cell, an- 

 other at top of subcostal interspace; shoulder well silvered, inner mar- 

 gin lightly, but where the silvering elsewhere is slight, it is here so 

 likewise, and the color is buff. 



Body black, with fulvous hairs ; below, the thorax gray and fulvous, 

 the abdomen ochraceous ; legs fulvous ; palpi fulvous in front and at 

 tip, buff at sides ; antennae black above, fulvous below ; club black, 

 tipped with bright ferruginous. 



Female. — Expands 2.25 inches. 



Color more tawny, the base more obscured ; the marginal lines 

 heavy and more or less confluent; the spots within the subapical lu- 

 nules paler than the ground ; the markings somewhat heavier than in 

 male ; in one example the discal lines on secondaries are broken, as in 

 Aphrodite, but in the others examined they are confluent, as in the 

 male. 



Under side of primaries sometimes as in the male, but often more 

 reddish over basal area and disk; the belt varying as in the male ; the 

 spots also varying in degree of silvering. 



From 12 % 4 $ received from Colorado. Several of these were taken 

 in the north of that State by Mr. Mead in 1871, and I have until re- 

 cently been undecided respecting them, but others, fresh and unin- 

 jured specimens, received from Mr. Morrison, and taken in the South 

 in 1877, leaves no doubt on my mind as to the distinctness of this 

 species. It is somewhat smaller than Atlantis, of size of Liliana, 

 Irene and Macaria, which are found towards the Pacific. 



Wm. H. Edwards. 



