Scudder.] 296 [December 23, 



cents, which form a slender transverse band, bent and generally inter- 

 rupted in the middle. Fringe pale ochraceous, interrupted with black 

 at the extremities of the nervules, longer on secondaries. 



Beneath. Fore wings pale fulvous, deepest at the base, the mark- 

 ings of the basal half of upper surface repeated ; the outer border 

 has a narrow line of deep fulvous or black, next to which is a rather 

 broad ochraceous band, more or less interrupted at the nervures, ex- 

 cept at apex, with fulvous fading into pale fulvous toward inner bor- 

 der, surrounded with slight, sagittate, dusky spots, distinct only in 

 the middle ; the arcuate row of black spots of the upper surface is 

 repeated, the upper ones pupilled faintly with white ; midway be- 

 tween this row and the mesial band on the costal border is a rather 

 faint narrow patch of pale cinnamon-red, dividing a broad patch of 

 ochraceous ; between this and the apex is a quadrate patch of pale 

 cinnamon-red. Hind wings cinnamon-red; the mesial band is a rep- 

 etition of that above, very pale straw-color, occasionally whitish, nar- 

 rowly edged with black; a rather large spot of same color between 

 each of the nervures at the base, that in the costo-subcostal inter- 

 space smallest; another spot above the costal nervure; the outer 

 border is very narrowly margined with black, upon which is a row of 

 silvery-white spots, rather large, pointed inward and margined nar- 

 rowly with black : midway between the outer border and the mesial 

 band is an arcuate band of round silvery-white spots, bordered with 

 black ; above this a narrow band of ochraceous, regularly crenulated, 

 and occasionally bordered with dusky scales toward the base, extend- 

 ing downwards in the subcosto-median and upper median interspaces 

 to the black borders of the marginal silvery spots, but more or less 

 mingled with reddish scales. 



Body covered above with fulvous, below with ochraceo-fulvous 

 hairs; legs pale cinnamon-red, femora with ochraceous and black 

 hairs; palpi covered with mingled fulvous and black hairs; stalk of 

 antennas fulvous, black above, interrupted with white at the base of 

 the joints; club of antennas black, apex fulvous. Expanse of wings 

 45 mm. The males and females do not differ. 2d 1 , 2 ?, Caribou 

 Island, Straits of Belle Isle, Labrador, (A. S*- Packard, Jr., S. R. 

 Butler). Specimens have also been taken at Mackenzie River (W. 

 H. Edwards) and in Colorado (T. L. Mead). 



Many years ago I distributed specimens of this butterfly under the 

 MS. name of Arg. Lais. 



