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brown bands along the upper edge, one at the end of the discoidal 

 cellule and the other near the summit, from which it is separated 

 by three or four crescents paler than the ground color. Towards 

 the internal angle, there is a brown spot slightly united to the 

 border, which is deep brown. 



The secondaries have the extremities blackish, insensibly mingling 

 with the fulvous, which is marked with two small black spots. A 

 little before the outer edge, there is a row of fulvous spots, some- 

 times indistinct. The angulated tails of the secondaries are tinted 

 with grayish-violet, and the emarginations of all the wings are 

 bordered with yellowish-gray. 



Under side brown, striated with blackish, with a paler band 

 towards the outer edge, angulated on the primaries ; a white mark 

 on the disk of the secondaries, which has a faint resemblance to the 

 letter L. 



Some female specimens have along the marginal edge on the 



under side some shining greenish crescents, more or less distinct, 



and nearly united in a continuous line. These have the upp&r side 



of a less brilliant fulvous. 



United States. — Expands two inches. 



Boisd. 



4. V. antiopa Linn. Syst. Nat. II, 776. Figured in most of the Euro- 



pean works. 



Upper side velvety black chestnut, with a yellowish terminal 

 band, the internal side of which is a little sinuous, preceded by a 

 line of seven or eight dots of violet-blue. 



The primaries have the upper edge finely interrupted with yel- 

 lowish-white, and marked between the middle and the bluish points 

 with two transverse and parallel spots of the same color as the 

 border. 



Under side obscure black, with wavy lines of deeper color, and 

 a small central grayish point. 



Body and antennce black ; club ferruginous. 



United States and Europe. — Expands three inches. 



Boisd. 



5. V. lintneri Fitch. Third Report to N. Y. State Agr. Soc, p. 485 of 



Trans. 



Wings of the same form and color of V. antiopa, but their 

 pale border is twice as broad, occupying a third of the length of 



