268 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



joints faintly annulated at tip witli castaneous, the apical half of the clnb faintly anil 

 narrowly annulated at tip Avith ferruginous, the last joint (?) or the last three joints 

 ((J) tinged decidedly Avith bright ferruginous. Palpi black, the sides, excepting the 

 basal half of the basal joint, covered with white scales, between which appear a few 

 black hairs. Tongue black, its tip fusco-luteous ; papillae (61 : 28) as long as the width 

 of one maxilla, comparatively slender, four times as long as broad ; apical filament of 

 similar shape, slightly shorter than width of papilla. 



Thorax black, slightly tinged with olivaceous; l^eneath, at the extreme base of the 

 costal border of each wing a white dot, and at the base of the wing itself a short, 

 slender, longitudinal, white streak ; on the middle of the sides of the middle and hind 

 coxae a pretty large, white spot, the anterior roundish, the posterior obliiiueand oval; 

 tips of these coxae white; femora black; rest of legs blackish brown, the tips of the 

 middle and hind tarsi edged above with white, whole exterior surface of the fore tibiae 

 and tarsi white ; spurs and claws dark reddish ; spines black. 



"Wings above varying in color from a dull yellow orange, tinged slightly with brown, 

 to a cinnamoneous orange, or even, in the southern states, to a dark cinnamon; the 

 veins are all edged with black. Fore wings having the costal margin slightly less 

 bowed than in our other species, and the middle of the outer margin slightly less con- 

 cave. Third superior subcostal nervule originating midAvay between the base of the 

 second, and the centre of the interspace enclosed between the terminal branches; 

 origin of the fourth superior subcostal nervule less than half way from the origin of 

 the third to the tip of the wing. The Avhole costal border, as far as the subcostal 

 nervure and the outer border, more broadly than the width of an interspace, margined 

 with black ; inner border similarly margined as far as the submedian nervure ; a large, 

 triangular, black patch depends from the costal margin half way between the extremity 

 of the cell and the apex of the wing, and sends downward as far as the upper median 

 nervule a black stripe, Avhich strikes the outer black border in the middle of the lower 

 median interspace; there is also a small, black spot next the under edge of the sub- 

 costal nervure at about the middle of the outer half of the cell, sometimes white pu- 

 pilled; there is a submargiual row of moderate sized, quadrate, occasionally lunulate, 

 white spots, one in each interspace, the lowermost double, distant from the outer 

 border by a little less than the Avidth of an interspace; occasionally, mUhvay betAveen 

 these and the margin a f cav scattered white scales ; the base of the upper of the broad 

 subcostal interspaces is filled Avith a patch of white and the interspace beloAV has 

 sometimes a dot at the extreme base; the loAver two subcostal interspaces, and some- 

 times the one next to them, have roundish, AA^hite spots in the interior half of the 

 subapical black patch, the edges of which are poAvdery ; the limit of the discoidal 

 cell is sometimes indicated by an inconspicuous line of broAvn scales; fringe black, 

 suddenly and rather broadly interrupted Avith Avhite in the interspaces. Outer margin 

 of the hind-wings alike in both sexes, strongly and regularly rounded, but not so 

 strongly as in the other species, thus resembling Anosia which it mimics in color; the 

 border is but faintly crenulate. First median nervule originating at the same distance 

 from the base as the last subcostal nervule. Outer border margined Avith black as 

 l)roadly as on the fore Avings, and, as there, with a submarginal roAV of white spots or 

 lunules, and occasionally a second faint row of scattered scales; a narrow, somewhat 

 arcuate, median, black stripe, sometimes reduced to a faint line on one or two inter- 

 spaces, sometimes broader than the black edged veins, crosses the Aving from the 

 middle of the outer tAvo-thirds of the costal border, Avhere it is broadest, to the sub- 

 median vein, just Avithhi the black bordering of the outer margin; fringe as on fore 



Avings. 



Beneath resembling the upper surface, but paler and Avith the same black markings ; 

 the Avhite spots also are all repeated, their edges often varied Avith bluish Avhite scales, 

 the submarginal rows more distinctly lunulate and the outer series nearly as disthict 

 as the inner; the costal and subcostal veins of fore-wings, betAveen the subapical black 

 spot and the outer limit of the cell, more or less Avashed Avith Avhite, as occasionally 

 happens above ; and the median stripe of the hind wings is sometimes partly bordered 



