194 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



soon (lies out; just Avithiu this border, and often half way to the apex of the cell, 

 tlie Aving is much darker and often blackish ; the extremity of the cell is marked by a 

 slender, blackish streak ; the outer two-fifths of the wing is considerably paler, especially 

 in the ? , becoming often neai'ly straw colored, especially nest the border of the darker 

 portion; toward the outer border it gradually deepens, the margin itself being nar- 

 rowly edged with blackish brown, and followed at less than half an interspace's dis- 

 tance, by a similar, but broader dark line in a narrow, pale stripe, which borders it 

 equally on either side ; the darker portion of the border deepens both in intensity and 

 width at the apex of the wing; and in the lowest subcostal, snbcosto-median and two 

 median interspaces, there is a nearly straight row, subparallel to the outer border, of 

 roundish, blackish spots ; that in the upper median interspace removed a little in- 

 wards; each bordered with a faint, dull yellowish annulus, the lower occasionally 

 with a white central dot ; each whole spot scarcely occupying, even in the narrowest in- 

 terspaces, the entire width betAveen the nervules; excepting the upper one, they are 

 situated midway between the border of the darker base, and the submarginal dark 

 line ; fringe uniform pale gray -brown. Hind wings brown, with the division between the 

 darker and paler portions of the wing less distinctly marked than in the fore wing; some- 

 times it is scarcely at all apparent, in others it passes in a nearly regular course from the 

 middle of the costal margin, to the upper branch of the median, as farbeyondits base as 

 it is from the first divarication of the median, and then, bent at nearly right angles, 

 crosses the lower interspaces in a series of waves, toward the middle of the outer half 

 of the inner border; the outer margin is marked just as in the fore wing, and there is 

 a submarginal curving row of six nearly equal, roundish or longitudinally subovate spots 

 in the subcostal, subcosto-median, median and submedian interspaces, their outer limits 

 usually about an interspace's distance from the outer border, and each composed of a 

 small, roundish black spot, with a central white dot, and narrowly and ecpially margined 

 with pale yellowish, this a little more broadly with pale brown, and this again with a 

 similar pale annulus, the last barely crowded between the nervules; the spots in the 

 subcostal interspaces are not infrequently wholly bluri'ed Avith blackish, eftacing the 

 successive annuli, and that in the medio-submedian is usually fainter than the others and 

 often subobsolete ; the guttered portion of the inner border is paler than the rest of the 

 wing ; fringe as in the fore wings. 



Beneath, slaty broAvn on the basal half, paler beyond, the tAvo tints separated by an 

 irregular, slender, dusky stripe. Fore iciufjs haA'ing the apex of the cell marked by a 

 slender, broAvnish fuscous stripe, and the cell crossed in the middle of the outer tAvo- 

 thirds by a similar, gently curving stripe, its convexity outAvard, beneath striking the 

 origin of the first median nervule, and sometimes faintly continued over the medio- 

 submedian interspace ; the similar and equal though irregular stripe, Avhich limits the 

 darker basal tint of the Aving, starts from the subcostal nerA-ure at the origin of the penul- 

 timate superior nervule, and passes tremulously, but with a direction in general par- 

 allel to the stripe at tip of the cell, to the upper median nervule, just above which it 

 generally protrudes slightly outward and here is slightly bent, passing in a slightly 

 irregular course as far as the middle of the lower median interspace, having a general 

 direction at about right angles to the lower median nervule, beloAv Avhich it continues 

 to the submedian nervure in the same general direction, but l)ent in a broadly zigzag 

 course; outer margin delicately edged Avith blackish broAvn, folloAved by a slender, 

 dusky line at less than half an interspace's distance ; between these two, the narroAV 

 space is pale, dull, umber yelloAV, and the submarginal line is bordered narrowly 

 Avithin Avith pale ; midAvay betAveen this submarginal line and the extra-mesial stripe, 

 at least on the loAver half of the Aving, is a series of four ocellate spots in the loAver 

 ■subcostal, subcosto-median and median interspaces, generally diminishing regularly in 

 size upAvards, each consisting of a roundish black spot, Avith a Avhite or bluish Avhite 

 central dot and annulated distinctly Avith pale yelloAvish, and this again more narrowly 

 and less distinctly Avith dusky; the four spots .are then enclosed in a common, equal, 

 broader, but very faint encirclement of pale, foUoAving their curves; the outer half of 

 the Aving above the subcostal vein is clouded Avitli fuscous, so as to be nearly or quite as 



