GRAPTA VI. 
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GRAPTA SATYRUS. 
Grapta Satyrus , (Sat'-y-rus) Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1870. 
Male. — Expands 2 inches. 
Primaries moderately incised and dentated; tail long, tapering; anal angle 
produced. 
Upper side uniform yellow-fulvous, dusky at base, and spotted with blackish 
brown; marginal borders narrow, often obsolete next margin, so that but a line or 
stripe of brown remains within ; a large subapical spot on costal margin of prima- 
ries, and a second covering the arc, sub-rectangular, dilated on costa; other spots 
as in Comma and allied species; marginal border of secondaries preceded by a 
series of irregular pale brown or ferruginous patches, usually more or less obsolete, 
but sometimes crossing the entire wing; a large blackish spot on middle of costal 
margin, another in cell, the two often confluent, and a small spot at origin of the 
upper median nervules; fringes dark brown, white in the emarginations. 
Under side marbled in shades of brown, more or less suffused with yellow; 
the basal area, occupying nearly half the wings, limited by a line that is angular 
on primaries, wavy in secondaries, as in Comma, on the inner side of which the 
shade of brown is darkest; in cell of primaries three elongated brown spots edged 
by darker lines, the extra basal space more or less tinted with yellow, much covered 
with fine, abbreviated, ferruginous streaks ; apex of primaries yellow-brown, some- 
times tinted with olivaceous, enclosing three ferruginous points and limited below 
by a ferruginous line running back from the angle of margin ; sub-apical patch 
greyish-white; incision bordered by a broad band which anteriorly is black and en- 
closes luteous lunules; secondaries have a similar but abbreviated border next 
above the tail, and posteriorly traces of such a border, obsolete; a sub- marginal 
ferruginous or olivaceous arc from anal angle to tail, and similar colored subapical 
patch; both wings crossed by an extra discal row of black dots, not complete except 
at the extremities; silver mark shaped like an inverted C, large, open, often very 
slender, barbed at lower extremity. 
Body fulvous above, beneath either yellow-grey or vinous ; legs pale buff, pro- 
legs vinous, with blackish stripe on front ; palpi buff below, fulvous at tip ; antennae 
dark brown above, buff below; club black, buff' at tip. 
