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the breathing pores are placed, extends along each side of the abdomen and is 
edged on its front side with a narrow white stripe, and on its opposite side is 
an elevated black point upon each segment. Along the middle of the back is a 
whitish stripe which becomes double towards its lower end, and on each side 
of this is a dull olive spot on each segment with an obtuse elevated point out¬ 
side of each spot. The lower end or head is deeply notched so as to form a 
somewhat conical point on each side, resembling a pair of horns. 
The butterfly measures across the spread wings from 1.90 to 2.30. Its fore 
wings are of a bright tawny orange color, sometimes paler tawny towards their 
tips or over their whole surface. Their hind border is black, commonly freckled 
with yellow or gray scales on its outer half. Along the forward edge of this 
black border is a row of seven faint crescent-shaped spots of a paler yellow 
color than the ground, the second one from the inner margin largest, and 
those next to the outermost one oval rather than crescent-shaped and commonly 
with a black dot more or less distinct, placed upon their forward ends. For¬ 
ward of these pale crescents is a dark rust-red spot upon the inner and a larger 
one upon the outer margin. A large somewhat square black spot is placed for¬ 
ward of this last one, upon the apex of the discoidal cell, which spot becomes 
dark rust-red towards its outer end and sometimes does not reach the outer edgo 
of the wing. Upon the disk are live smaller round black spots,the three for¬ 
ward ones in a transverse row. of which the two outer ones are placed in the 
discoidal cell and nearer to each other and are often smaller and ,deeper black 
than the other three, which form a longitudinal row inside of and parallel with 
the middle vein. The outer margin and hind part of the inner margin is black 
r irregularly alternated with grayish white. At its base the outer margin is 
strongly contracted or obliquely excavated instead of being straight or merely 
rounded inward as in other species. The hind margin is irregularly scalloped 
or wavy along its edge, with a more or less deep rounded excavation in the 
middle, at the outer end of which is a projecting prominent angle which is com¬ 
monly acute. The fringe is black with whitish alternations between the pro¬ 
jecting teeth. The inner margin is also strongly excavated or arched. The kind 
wings are black gradually shaded into rusty-red across their middle and here 
often showing short transverse black lines, the basal portion tawny orange with 
' r. wide blackish margin and two round black spots, the inner one smaller and 
tapering anteriorly to a point. In the black ground forward of thehind margin 
is a row of pale yellow dots, those towards the inner margin more faint and 
often obliterated. The hind edge is scalloped and wavy, with a deep round 
excavation between the middle and the inner angle, on each side of which is a 
projection resembling a short tail which is rounded at its apex and of a bluish 
gray color. Under side dark gray with numerous irregular transverse streaks 
of black, dusky and brown, giving the surface a peculiar curdled appearance 
like that of the fabric called “ chcne cloth.” The fore wings are crossed pos¬ 
teriorly with a broad paler gray irregular band, which is widened at its outer 
end into a large hoary white patch occupying the whole apex of the wing. In 
the centre of the hind wings is a silvery-white mark which is bent at an obtuse 
angle in its middle with the two ends straight. This mark is variable, being 
sometimes slender through its whole length, sometimes twice as thick at its 
