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TWO NEW HESPERIDS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Henry Skinner
Affiliation:
Prof. Ent., Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia.

Extract

Male.—Expands 1.50 inches. Upper side: Superiors tawny with a fuscous border a little more than one-eighth inch in width; there are from one to four small subapical tawny spots in the fuscous border; at end of cell a dark spot which may or may not be connected with the stigma; stigma rather more than an eighth inch in length, very narrow and unbroken, and extending to inner margin. Inferiors have the same fuscous border and tawny central area. Under side: Superiors with tawny central area and border same as upper side; there is a large triangular spot extending into the wing from the base. The tawny colour above this spot is of a darker hue than that below and outside of it. Inferiors very light brown, generally with four or five very faint tawny spots in the central area.

Type
Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1896

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