150 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



iiitL'i-nii)te(l narrowly with Ijlack at tlie nervurc tips. The male is also provided (43 : 2) 

 with two Ijlack streaks of hair-like scales, one next the base beloAv the median nervure 

 restins>: upon and extendina,- to its tirst branch ; the second, separated by this branch 

 from the llrst, rests upon the median nervure both above and below, divided by it and 

 extending to the termination of the cell, having a small patch between the second and 

 third median nervules. Hind xnufjs with a band before the border similar to that of 

 the fore wings, continuous, or nearly so. in !)oth sexes and within it, in every interspace, 

 a more or less distinct pale yellow dot, except in the upper median interspace, where 

 there is a small eyelike spot, indistinctly pupilled with white ; the lower median inter- 

 space occasionally develops a similar but indistinct spot; the separation of the band 

 from the border is less distinct in the female than in the male. 



Beneath. Fore wings slightly paler than on the upper surface ; the whole costal edge 

 mottled with black and white; ape.x and upper half of outer border either uniform 

 gray from the equal commingling of dark broAvn scales, or, by the clustering of scales 

 of the same color into spots, pretty uniformly marbled with white and dark brown 

 or lilack; outer half of the wing with a yellowish (?) or slight ochraceous (J) tinge, 

 seldom with any mark of the light band of the upper surface, excepting as a halo, 

 distinct and large (?) or faint and narroAV (J) around the spots of the lower sub- 

 costal and lower median interspaces, which reappear on this surface, the upper always, 

 the lower generally, pupilled distinctly Avith Avhite. Hind irini/s marl:)led Avitli narrow, 

 transverse, generally Avavy l)ars of clustered grayish Avhite and broAvn or blackish 

 brown scales, sometimes one, sometimes the other predominating, the lighter colors 

 being fainter or nearly absent on the mesial band, and generally most conspicuous next 

 its outer limit; the mesial band is darker than the ground color, not very prominent 

 l)ut broad ; its outer border, generally only edged narroAvly Avith blackish, is deeply 

 crenate excepting toAvard the inner l)order, Avhere the curves are slight and broad or 

 Avanting; it extends from the costal border at a little more than tAvo-thirds the distance 

 from the base to exactly the extremity of the cell, in three very prominent arches, 

 each of the first tAvo occupying an interspace, the third broad and arching over two 

 interspaces; from the extremity of the cell the border bends backward toAvards the 

 base, with a prominent arch in the next interspace, but in the remaining, by Avhich it 

 reaches the inner border, a little nearer the tip of the sul)median than that of the in- 

 ternal nervure, only slight curves or none at all ; the interior border is much less 

 distinct, starts from the costal margin at a little more than one-third the distance from 

 the base, has an angular depression betAveen the costal and subcostal nervures and a 

 very deep and rounded one in the loAver half of the cell ; it sti'ikes the median nervure 

 at or a little Avithin its first divarication and then, turned iuAvard in a direction at right 

 angles to the internal nervure, is lost in the next interspace. Costal edge mottled Avith 

 black and Avhite, the outer edge narrowly lined Avith black, before Avhicli is generally 

 a narrow faint band Avhei-e the grayish scales predominate over the black. The 

 remainder of the Aving is generally uniformly uiai-bled, but occasionally the narroAv 

 dark line bordering the loAver half of the outside of the middle band continues on in a 

 straight line to the outer angle of the Aving.at the termination of the second subcostal 

 nervule. The ocellus of the upper surface appears again beneath, very prominently 

 pupilled Avitli Avhite, sometimes so much so as to appear almost altogether as a Avhite 

 spot; the spots in the other interspaces are generally larger, more prominent and 

 paler; nervures not flecked Avith Avhite. 



.\bdomeu blackish broAvn throughout with a fcAV taAvny scales at thetii)of the apical 

 joint. Male appendages (32 :.")) : Upper organ Avitli the centrum scarcely arched longi- 

 tudinally, so that its upi)er surface and the median line of the hook lie in nearly a 

 straight line; hook considerably arched above, the under surface a little arcuate in a 

 contrary sense, or nearly straight but deeply and roundly excised at the base, the tip 

 scarcely uncinate and the Avhole scarcely more than three times as long as broad ; lat- 

 eral arms \ery slender, nearly equal on the apical half, much more than half as 

 long as the liook. Clasps Avith the apical fourth equal, the tip obliquely truncate, its 

 scarcely produced upper angle being provided, like the ai)ical third of the upper sur- 



