204 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Love liiiu, or leave liim alone. 



Wordsworth. — Bedbreast and Butterfly, 



I6u, bello roso viergiuello, 

 M'espandirai dins I'espinas ! 

 — O Magali, se tu te fas 



La roso bello 

 Lou parpaiouu i6u rae farai, 

 Te beisarai. 



MiREio.—Mistnd. 



Imago (14 : 7). Head covered with long pale brown hairs, often with an olivaceous 

 tinge, mingled, especially behind, with some dusky hairs. Palpi at base sordid white, 

 beyond, on the sides and above, pale cinereous tinged slightly with buff; fringed beneath 

 with a long compressed mass of blackish brown bristles, flanked on the inner side with 

 a thin fringe of whitish bristles fully as long as they, and on the outer side by a thin- 

 ner, shorter and unequal fringe of similar bristly scales. Antennae luteous and in large 

 part naked, the upper surface covered with dark brown scales, more broadly at the 

 apes than at the base of the joints, becoming less and less abundant beyond the middle, 

 disappearing entirely in the middle of the apical half, and edged both interiorly and 

 exteriorly with whitish scales which nearly meet upon the under surface, especially 

 toward the base of the antennae. Tongue luteous throughout. 



Thorax covered above with hairs of the color of those on the head, those on the 

 patagiamost distinctly tinted with olivaceous, beneath a little paler. Legs rather dark 

 and uniform brown, pretty heavily and uniformly flecked with pale cinereous scales, 

 sometimes almost to the exclusion of the brown ones. Spurs reddisli luteous, deepening 

 toAvard tip, Avhere it is blackish, but excepting there covered with cinereous scales; 

 spines pale; claws reddish luteous, dusky at tip; paronychia luteous. 



Wings above uniform soft dark, or mouse, brown, the fringe of the same color, but 

 with a very inconspicuous, very slender, darker line in the middle of the basal two- 

 thirds, beyond which the fringe is thinner. 



Beneath slightly paler, with a faint grayish tint, becoming olivaceous in the basal 

 half of the wing, caused by a slight powdering of scales and short hairs of these colors. 

 Fore wings with four faint, transverse, narrow, ochreous stripes; two in the middle and 

 two next the margin ; the first traverses the cell in a nearly straight line from the base 

 of the first superior subcostal nervule to midway between the bases of the first and 

 second median uervules, turns inwards if it passes this point and stops at the low- 

 est median nervule, close to its base; or crosses a portion of the interspace below, 

 opposite the extreme base of the same nervule ; the second is a little sinuous and irreg- 

 ular in direction, passing from the subcostal nervure, just beyond the origin of the 

 fourth superior nervule, toward the middle of the cell, but bent in the middle of the 

 basal two-fifths of the lowest subcostal interspace, and passing in a slight curve, open- 

 ing outward, to a little beyond the middle of the submedian nervule, crosses the upper 

 median nervule just beyond the extremity of the cell ; the third runs parallel to the 

 outer margin, and is distant from it by the width of half an interspace; the fourth is 

 separated from the margin by only its own width ; the two median stripes are of about 

 the width of the basal expansion of the median nervure and the outer ones a little nar- 

 rower ; the middle half of the space between the outer ones is fiecked with gray, which 

 is more conspicuous, by contrast, than the almost equally abundant powdering of the 

 wing for some distance within the third stripe; just beyond the middle of the upper 

 median and subcosto-median interspaces, these gi'ay scales form a delicate, very incon- 

 spicuous, minute ring of the diameter of the larger stripes only, enclosing a fuliginous 

 dot free of such scales, which is almost imperceptible when the annulus is absent; 

 outer margin edged very narrowly Avith a black line ; fringe as above. Hind xoings also 

 with four transverse, narrow, ochi'eous stripes, but a little more distinct and slightly 

 broader than those of the fore Avings and equal in breadth ; the first one crosses 

 the Aving in an irregular slightly sinuous course ; starting from the tip of the costal 

 nervure, it passes in a curve opening outAvard to the first divarication of the subcostal 

 nervure, ci'osses the cell in a nearly straight but gently sinuous course to the first 



