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DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW CALIFORNIAN BUTTERFLIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Theodore L. Mead
Affiliation:
New York

Extract

Male–Expanse 1 8/10 to 2 8/10, inches, average 2 2/ inches. Upper side of primaries fuscous, with velvety discal bar and a submarginal row of gray-ochraceous spots between the nervures. These spots are usually six in number, situated in the consecutive interspaces between the nervules, beginning with the last but one subcostal interspace, counting from the apex of the wing. The second of these spots always contains a black ocellus, pupilled with white. On the fifth intersprce (last median) are usually faint indications of e fuscous dot in about one-third of the specimens examined ; in one instance this dot is distinct and pupilled with white.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1878

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