GRAPTA VI. 
GRAPTA ZEPHYRUS. 
Grapta Zephyrus (Zeph'-y-rus), Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1870. 
Male. — Expands 1.8 to 2 indies. 
Primaries deeply incised, moderately dentated ; secondaries have posteriorly 
three prominent dentations, usually equal, sometimes the second produced; tail long, 
united at base with third dentation; outer angle strongly produced, and margin 
deeply incised. 
Upper side fiery-red fulvous, fading into yellow fulvous on disk; primaries 
have a narrow fuscous border often suffused with ferruginous, preceded throughout 
by a series of elongated yellow lunules; the border of secondaries still narrower, often 
interrupted, sometimes ferruginous, and supporting large yellow lunules, which are 
rather indistinct in outline, and always confluent; primaries have a large subapical 
ferruginous patch, a smaller one near inner angle; a large black spot, depressed, 
covering the arc, frequently much dilated on costa; five small black spots arranged 
as in the allied species; secondaries have the outer limb more or less irrorated 
with ferruginous, forming a sort of band anterior to the yellow lunules; a large 
black patch on middle of costa and a small sub-triangular spot on arc, sometimes 
connected with the patch; fringes fuscous at tips of nervules and somewhat on the 
interspaces, mixed irregularly with yellow and white. 
Under side grey-brown, but varying much in individuals, in some the grey 
shade predominating, giving a hoary appearance to the whole surface, others quite 
dark, but all densely covered with fine, abbreviated lines darker than the ground; 
the basal space is usually brown, limited on the disk by a moderately irregular 
outline, very closely as in Gracilis and Progne , well defined except against cell 
of primaries ; in the cell three elongated brown spots edged with black, two being 
in line next sub-costal and the third against the space that is between the two 
others and next median; both wings have an extra-discal complete row of 
black points, edged by luteous scales, often conspicuously, except those on costal 
margin of primaries which are edged anteriorly by small pure white lunations; 
three dark brown serrated spots at apex; the incision bordered by a cinereous, 
sometimes plumbaginous, wavy line, edged anteriorly by velvety black ; on sec- 
ondaries a similar line, but interrupted beyond the tail and frequently there 
obsolete; costal margin of primaries marked with irregular patches of dark brown 
and grey white; edge of inner margin of same wings and of costal of secondaries 
beaded with brown and white; discal silver spot narrow, bent at an angle of about 
fifty degrees, not barbed, but acuminate at either extremity, the limbs either of even 
length or the lower one shorter. 
Body fulvous, beneath grey-brown; legs grey; palpi grey, blackish in front 
