GRAPTA I. 
GRAPTA SILENUS, 1—4. 
Grapla Silenus , Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 15. 
Male. — Expands 2.2 inches. 
Primaries moderately incised ; slightly dentated ; tail long, broad, and straight; 
a prominent dentation between tail and inner angle, which last is much produced. 
Upper side deep red-fulvous, clouded with brown-ferruginous next base of 
each wing and on disks, and spotted with black ; hind margins have a broad com¬ 
mon border of nearly uniform width, black with a ferruginous tint; on the inner 
side a series of separate, pale fulvous spots, yellowish next apex of primaries, 
irregular in size, lanceolate; primaries have a large sub-apical ferruginous patch 
on costal margin, another near inner angle, a broad black spot from costa cover¬ 
ing the arc, two oval spots in cell placed transversely and sometimes confluent, 
two others in first and second median interspaces, and* a large sub-ovate spot on 
sub-median interspace extending partly over the one next above. 
Secondaries have the entire costal margin brownish-black, a large irregular 
black patch on disk between upper branch of sub-costal and the median nervure ; 
a brownish-ferruginous patch at base of the upper median nervules; the whole 
extra-discal area suffused with ferruginous, passing imperceptibly into the mar¬ 
ginal border; fringes fuscous, with a very little white in the emarginations. 
Under side mostly in shades of black or blackish-brown, the entire surface, ex¬ 
cept where deep black prevails, covered with fine, abbreviated streaks darker 
than the ground; apex of primaries faintly tinted with olivaceous; costal margin 
brown, with a few gray scales near apex, a whitish patch beyond extremity of 
cell and a smaller one nearer base ; base of primaries brown, of secondaries 
brown next costa, black towards abdominal margin ; the disks crossed by a com¬ 
mon, broad, black band, very irregular in its exterior outline, on lower part of 
secondaries merging into the black basal area, outside the band, on primaries and 
upper part of secondaries, grayish-white for a little space, densely streaked, and 
beyond to margin blackish-brown; the extra-discal points nearly or quite lost on 
the dark ground; sub-marginal crescents black, obsolescent, often wanting alto¬ 
gether ) in the cell of primaries three elongated, narrow, deep black spots, two of 
