GRAPTA III. 
GRAPTA RUSTICUS, 1—4. 
Grapta Eusticus, Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., Yol. V., p. 107,1874. Var. Silvius, 5 , Edw., id., p. 108. 
Male. — Expands 2 inches. 
Near Faunus; primaries rather deeply incised ; both angles of secondaries pro¬ 
duced almost equally; tail long, broad, curved, followed by a deep incision, and 
at extremity of lower branch of median nervure a prominent tooth. 
Upper side dull red-fulvous, pale on disk of primaries; marginal border of 
primaries broad, dark red-brown, in the incision nearly black; of secondaries 
wholly red-brown, occupying one third the wing, clearly defined on its inner 
edge, and not shading gradually into the fulvous ground, as in Faunus ; the sub¬ 
marginal spots lunular, bright yellow, those of secondaries large ; the other mark¬ 
ings deep black, and disposed as in the allied species; hind margins edged with 
yellow scales, especially along the incision, and upon the anterior half of second¬ 
aries ; fringes largely black, with a mixture of red-brown, and in most of the 
interspaces a little white. 
Under side much less variegated than in Faunus; the basal areas brown, dark¬ 
est along their outer limits, and contrasting sharply with the pale olive-brown of 
the remainder of tire wings; in cell of primaries two long concolored spots, edged 
with black, in that of secondaries a transverse curved black stripe, and above this 
cell a few abbreviated fine black streaks; on costa of primaries a narrow edging 
of white one third the distance from base to apex, and a sub-apical gray patch 
on white ground; the points on hind margin above the incision ferruginous ; along 
the incision and to inner angle a submarginal band of green, formed of confluent 
crescents edged with black, and on basal side narrowly by gray ; beyond this band 
is a transverse series of green spots, — the one on upper median interspace obso¬ 
lete, — all edged on the outer side by black scales, and more or less by gray. 
Secondaries have a submarginal row of green, black-edged spots, separated, mostly 
crescent, crossing the entire wing, and an inner row larger than those on pri- 
