322 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLxVNl). 



its basal half, a little further out below it thau alcove ; there are tAvo otlier small 

 black or blackish spots ; one occupying the extreme base of the upper median inter- 

 space, the other following the extreme base of the lower subcostal nervule and crossing 

 part of the base of the upper subcostal interspace in direct continuation of it ; there 

 is a submarginal series of indistinctly limited, triangular, fulvous spots similar to those 

 of the fore wings, parted at the upper median nervule and lying at a distance from 

 the outer border, to which they are parallel, by a little more than on the lower half of 

 the fore wings ; whole outer border, including the Avhole of the tail, and also the 

 costal nervure edged as in the fore Aving; fringe cinnamoneous, interrupted in the 

 interspaces by pale olivaceous brown, overlaid in part by the bloom. 



Beneath of a general wood broAvn tint of varying shades, made up of a very inti- 

 mate and varying commingling of ochrey yellow and paler or deeper cinnamoneous 

 scales, nearly the Avhole, but especially the basal two-thirds, more or less but almost 

 always very slightly, Avashed Avith an exceedingly delicate pale bluish-hoary or plumbe- 

 ous bloom, all the contrasts much more distinct in the $ than in the $ . Fore wings 

 with the basal fourth of the costal margin as far as the costal nervure white or yel- 

 lowish white, heavily mottled with cinnamon broAvn; the liiiiits of the transverse 

 patch at the tip of the cell above are marked beneath by slender creniilate threads of 

 cinnamon broAvn, between which the Aving is a little darker reddish, especially in the 

 g ; from a point on the upper median nervule, as far beyond the tip of the cell as that 

 is beyond the second divarication of the median nervure, a straight, cinnamoneous 

 line runs to the middle of the basal four-fifths of the sul)median nervure ; at and Avitliin 

 this mark, the inner border, as far as thesubmedian, is transversely and slenderly striped 

 with dusky ; and beyond this line, Avith alternating narroAV bars of ochraceous and 

 ferruginous ; f olloAving this transverse line interiorly is a rather broad and nearly equal 

 band, darker than most of the wing, made up of ferruginous tints, darker and more 

 pronounced in the $ than in the ? , the tint diminishing in depth interiorly, so that 

 in the $ it is hard to determine its inner limit, but Avhich in the g is seen to be half- 

 way to the base of the loAver median interspace ; crossing the middle of the cell is a 

 cloudy, plumbeous, irregular, zigzag, slender, reddish-edged stripe connecting the base 

 of the first subcostal and median nervules, often parted in the middle and much more 

 distinct in the S' than in the $ ; a similar, quite small, ovate spot, parallel to the sub- 

 costal nervure, is seated on the median nervure a short distance from its base; in the 

 outer half of the Aving, excepting near the costal and outer borders, the nervules are 

 delicately traced in yellow ; the wing is palest in this same region, being ochraceous 

 tinged slightly with ferruginous, and so presenting a considerable and sharply defined 

 contrast Avith the mesial band in the J , but scarcely paler than the Avood broAvn of the 

 whole Aving in the $ ; it is palest next the costal margin, but is interrupted by a large 

 reddish fuscous cloud in the middle of the outer half of the border, more distinct in 

 the $ than in the ? , and Avhich reaches nearly or quite to the upper median nervules ; 

 there is a sinuous series of nine blackish, sometimes indistinctly blue-edged dots 

 in all the interspaces Avhich open on the outer border, (two in the medio-submedian 

 interspace) obsolete or obsolescent in the ? , very inconspicuous in the $ ; the first is 

 considerably nearer the base than the second, Avhich is in the middle of the basal tAvo- 

 thirds of the apical subcostal interspace ; beloAV this they regularly recede fartlier 

 from the outer border (that in the upper median in the middle of its interspace) until 

 the lower median nervule is passed, Avhere they are at the same distance from it as in 

 the loAver median interspace ; beyond these the Aving becomes darker again and is pro- 

 fusely mottled Avith most delicate, short, transverse threads of dark and paler cinna- 

 moneous and ochraceous, much darker in the J than in the $ , the apex and lobe of 

 the outer inferior angle more or less covered Avith bloom, little dots of Avliich — notice- 

 able only by the lens— occur midAvay betAveen the sinuous roAV of black dots and the 

 outer border of the wing; fringe cinnamoneous, the apical half, except at the nervule 

 tips and the falcation, marked Avith Avhite. Hind wings Avith an irregular mesial l)and 

 of similar Avidth and color to that of the fore Avings, and like that deepest in tint 

 externally ; the outer edge, starting from the middle of the costal border, passes Avith 



