DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF HESPERIAN FROM TEXAS

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Upper side blackish-brown ; primaries have the costal margin to cell and nearly to apex densely covered with fulvous ; the basal area and the inner margin sprinkled with fulvous scales; and the cell wholly deep fulvous except towards the outer end, where through the middle runs an oar-shaped blackish stripe; midway between cell and apex an elongated yellow-white spot, cut into three by the sub-costal nervules, the one of these spots nearest costa nearly lost in the fulvous ground ; across the disk an oblique band of yellow-white spots, the upper one small and in the upper discoidal interspace, placed a little outside the costal spot, the lower one in the submedian interspace, the spots widening as they proceed towards inner margin, and the 3rd and 4th deeply excavated on the outer side.