By William Spence, Esq. 31 



orange. Upper wings brown, beautifully variegated with 

 many irregular streaks of orange, and a few of silver. The 

 silver streaks are situate chiefly next the margin ; one just 

 above the middle of the wing, anteriorly dividing into a 

 fork, whose ends approach the margin ; another below the 

 middle, extending in a curved direction nearly to the apex, 

 and sending off anteriorly two or three branches towards the 

 margin. These silver lines are margined with orange, as are 

 two other short transverse silver lines near the inner angle of 

 the apex of the wing, which include a small silver spot, and 

 two longitudinal orange bars. Besides numerous orange 

 streaks and marks, which it is unnecessary to describe mi- 

 nutely, the wings are characterized at the outer margins by 

 about six short oblique yellow spots. At the apex they are 

 fringed with brown cilia, which in some lights have a metal- 

 lic shade, and are interrupted by two longitudinal bars of 

 yellow cilia. Under wings, above wholly of a brownish black, 

 except at the outer margin from the base to the middle, 

 where they are white. At the apex they are fringed with 

 cilia, white at the apex, and circumscribed just above the 

 brown base with a very fine and almost imperceptible white 

 line. Under side of the body and' legs of a silvery or pearly 

 white ; the tibiae and tarsi of the latter ringed with black. 

 Length of the body about one-third of an inch; of the 

 wings, when expanded, from half to three quarters of an 

 inch. 



Long as the above description may seem, it will not be 

 deemed too minute by any one acquainted with the diffi- 

 culty of discriminating many of the minuter species of this 

 tribe of insects ; nor could I have contracted it consistently 



