1874.] 305 [Scudder. 



Under surface. Fore wings slightly paler than above, with black 

 markings ; the black markings of the basal half of the wing above 

 are repeated narrowly beneath ; the mesial band is usually more or 

 less interrupted, and its upper portion is not straight but bent almost 

 at right angles at the lower subcostal nervule, the angle pointing in- 

 ward ; the row of circular spots is repeated distinctly in black, and 

 the spots are of about the same size as above. The submarginal row of 

 roundish spots is also repeated as a row of dusky circular or triangu- 

 lar spots, and from the centre of each, or at least of the upper ones, a 

 white dash extends to the border, broadened generally at the point of 

 contact with the spot and always at the border ; the costal border is 

 grayish or olive-brown ; there are two transverse streaks of yellowish- 

 brown extending from the costal border across the subcostal nervules, 

 one just within the inner row of circular spots, the other just above 

 the outer row ; just within each of these the wing is more deeply 

 tinged than elsewhere, approaching ferruginous. Hind wings reddish- 

 brown, or ferruginous, flecked with black scales, more or less fulvous 

 on outer half; sometimes the whole wing is deep fulvous, marked 

 with snow-white ; an interrupted mesial white band crosses the wing, 

 the borders marked with black, indicating its direction, the interior 

 mainly white but so much interrupted with broad patches of fulvous 

 or ferruginous (lighter than the rest of the wing) especially next the 

 nervures, that the white is especially noticeable as three reel-shaped 

 patches, the longer diameter along the wing, situated, one between the 

 costal and subcostal, one between the subcostal and median, but in- 

 cluding generally a part of the lower subcostal nervule, and one be- 

 tween the median and submedian nervures ; the band is bordered 

 within by a line which crosses the costo-subcostal interspace before 

 the divarication of the subcostal nervule, is bent at right angles 

 in the middle, its angle outward ; is there broken and starts be- 

 tween the two divarications of the subcostal, forms a similar bent 

 line across the cell just within the subcostal nervure and strikes the 

 median at its first divarication ; from here it crosses the next three 

 interspaces by similar bent or curving lines to the inner border in 

 such a direction that its general course is at right angles to the pre- 

 vious general course of the line ; on the outside the line curves or is 

 bent in the interspaces in a direction opposite to the interspaceal 

 curves of the inner line; in the middle of the wing the last divarica- 

 tion of the median nervure is in the middle of the band, which is of 

 average equal width except in the area occupied by the subcostal ner- 



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