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GKAPTA COMMA. 1—5. 
Grapta Comma, Harris, Ins. Mass. C-album, Fitch, New York Reports, 1856. 
Male. Expands 2.3 inches. 
Primaries deeply incised; hind margins slightly dentated; a broad tail of 
medium length on middle of secondaries. 
Upper side bright fulvous; primaries have a black marginal band of medium 
width, dilated at apex, edged within by a series of pale yellow spots; on inner 
margin a ferruginous patch joins the marginal band,- a similar sub-apical patch on 
costa ; on costal margin a broad sub-rectangular black patch ; within the cell two 
small rounded black spots transverse, and at right angles to these three others in 
the submedian and first and second median interspaces; costal edges of both wings, 
and the incision of inner margin of primaries, sprinkled with black and yellow or 
pale fulvous. Secondaries have the outer limb deep ferruginous and the rest of 
wing to base mottled with ferruginous and fulvous; a sub-marginal series of small 
yellow lunules; on costal margin a large, elongated black spot, another of small 
size at base of first sub-costal nervule and a third at base of second median ; fringe 
of both wings fuscous, whitish in the emarginations; the margins themselves nar- 
rowly edged with purplish. 
Under side mottled in shades of brown and yellow; the basal space limited 
by a line, angular on primaries, wavy on secondaries, next inside which the color 
is darkest, next base greyish; in cell two long, narrow, dark spots; extra basal 
space greyish; apex of primaries dark brown, often castaneous, enclosing on the 
edge a yellowish spot or lunule; sub-apical patch grey-brown inclining to white; 
along the incision a broken or wavy stripe of metallic blue, anterior to which is a row 
of black points, distinct at the extremities and the posterior ones enclosed in oliva- 
ceous patches; costal edge specked with brown, grey and buff. On secondaries 
the extra basal space is mottled with brown, grey, olivaceous and yellow ; the sub- 
apical patch olivaceous or castaneous, as is also the curved stripe extending from 
this patch to anal angle; along the margin a line of metallic blue lunules partly 
separated from the patch and stripe by yellow; a row of black points as on prima- 
ries; the silver C varies in size and form, being thick, rounded and barbed, or deli- 
cate and open with no barb; occasionally also interrupted as in Interrogationis ; 
the whole surface of both wings inscribed with fine brown abbreviated lines. 
