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lies below the fifth ; the upper five therefore form a curving row 

 around the spot at the tip of the cell. The outer margin is edged 

 narrowly with black, and there is generally a transverse interrupted 

 dusky line midway between the submarginal row of spots and the 

 margin. Hind wings dark, slightly olivaceous brown, marked heavily 

 with white and with black spots ; in the interspaces next the outer 

 border and separated from it only by its black or fuscous edging, is a 

 series of spots ; they are ordinarily white, although those in the me- 

 dian and submedian interspaces are occasionally tinged wholly or in 

 part with pale dull orange ; they are separated from one another 

 only by the dusky nervules, are sharply curved on the inside, ordina- 

 rily extend up the interspaces to a distance equal to the width of the 

 spaces between the nervule tips, and enclose a black or dusky trans- 

 verse streak (or sometimes a round spot) which is sometimes obsolete ; 

 on the inside these spots are bordered with dusky lunules, increas- 

 ing to black, which occasionally encroach upon the white spots and 

 form a considerable olivaceous brown band, and whether as lunules, 

 or as a continuous band, are generally heaviest in the median inter- 

 spaces ; these lunules, with more distinct outline on their inner side, 

 are the boundaries of a broad white band, enclosing in the middle 

 of each interspace a small black spot which is sometimes obsolete ; 

 the band extends from the costal to the internal nervure, its outer 

 crenulated limit is the row of lunules just mentioned, and is more 

 distant from the outer border at the median than at the subcostal 

 nervules ; its inner border is quite irregular ; between the subcostal 

 nervules it is not half as broad as the interspaces, abruptly enlarging 

 beyond the cell to fully that width, broadening by regular abrupt 

 changes in successive interspaces until in the lower median inter- 

 space it has become fully twice as broad as the interspace, while in 

 the lowest interspace it is sometimes no broader than in the first, but 

 generally a little broader ; within this band the wing is of uniform 

 tint, except some grayish scales next the base and the following white 

 spots: a large transverse spot covering the vein closing the cell, 

 which sometimes forms a dusky or blackish streak in it ; above and 

 just outside two pretty large confluent circular spots, the upper in 

 the costo-subcostal interspace and a little within the lower, which is 

 in the lower subcostal interspace; they each enclose black spots, the up- 

 per one containing the largest, that of the lower being sometimes ob- 

 solete ; a pretty large circular spot midway between the base of the 

 wino- and the upper of the spots just mentioned and occupying the 



