334 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



ileepening into blackish, especially outwardly; iiiwanlly it bleiuls gradually into the 

 basal color; crossing the middle of this darker portion, its outer edge at a distance of 

 more than half an interspace's width from it, is a series of yellowish fulvous, 

 roundish or triangular spots with ill-defined edges, becoming more or less transversely 

 linear below the upper median nervule, nowhere so high as broad, and always clearly 

 separate from one another; margin of the Aving distinctly, but rather narrowly, 

 covered with a hoary bluish bloom, most conspicuous at the nervule tips; fringe 

 blackish, broadly interrupted in the interspaces with Avhitish, partly overlaid by fus- 

 cous scales. 



Beneath, dark l)rown on the basal half of the fore icings, lunitecl by a bent line, the 

 limbs of which are usually a little concave, opening outw^ard, running from the costal 

 margin (close to the tip of the costal nervure) to the base of the straight portion of 

 the upper median nervule, and thence to the inner margin before its middle. Within 

 this area the $ has the following markings, some of which in the $ are always very 

 obscure, and others at a distance from the costal margin, -wholly obsolete : the darker 

 portions are outwardly and more or less distinctly limited as a band by a bent line, 

 the upper half of Avhicli reaches to the median nervure and is parallel to the simi- 

 lar portion of the outer bent line, and so far distant from it as to make this part of the 

 baud f iilly three-fourths as broad as its length ; the lower half is also sub-parallel to 

 the low^er pai't of the outer bent line, but the band is only half as wide as above and 

 tapers toAvard the inner border; above the middle of the cell the baud is bordered on 

 either side by a zigzag thread of black, and there are also a fcAv similar marks Avithin 

 it; it is folloAved interiorly by a hoary patch, Avhile in the cell are three obli(iue, 

 mostly black edged, dark broAvn, linear streaks, about as long as half the Avidth of 

 the cell, one seated, on cud, on the median nervure close to the base and directed 

 parallel to the subcostal nerA'ure, a second on the same nervure at its first divarication 

 directed tOAvard the upper outer angle of the cell, and a third depending from the cos- 

 tal margin directed betAveen the first tAvo ; the Avhole costal margin is irrorate Avith 

 blackish ferruginous and AAiiitish or yellowish ; the apical half of the Aving is paler, 

 being ashy broAvn ( $ ) or hoary ash ( J ) , excepting the outer border and a (luadrate 

 clouded, darker portion, somcAvhat darker and much more distinct in the $ than in the $ , 

 occupying the Avhole apex of the Aving above the loAver subcostal interspace and 

 beyond the origin of the third superior subcostal nervule, darkest at its interior and 

 inferior borders, and enclosing in its middle next the costal margin an obscure paler 

 spot, reaching to the next, at the loAver subcostal nervule. This paler part of the 

 Aving is frequently tinged Avith olivaceous in the $ , particularly outAvardly and near 

 the inner margin, and in both sexes it is varied by frequent, short, transverse, delicate 

 threads of blackish and reddish broAvn or fuscous ; there is a transverse roAv of black 

 dots, often obsolete in some of the interspaces and never conspicuous, but almost 

 alAvays present in the lower tAvo subcostal, loAver median and medio-submedian inter- 

 spaces, in a similar position to those of interrogationis ; the outer margin above the 

 subcostal angulation is slightly paler than the surrounding parts in the ? , but in the 

 male is deeper and generally distinctly and rather broadly olivaceous; beloAV the 

 angulation and excepting the extreme loAver angle, Avhich is like the apex, the margin 

 is dark like the base in the $ , but in the $ is greatly variegated, being olivaceous 

 brown enlivened by many blackish, fuscous, and dark ferruginous scales, mostly ar- 

 ranged in transverse roAVS, and limited, parallel to and at half an interspace's distance 

 from the outer border, by a slender black stripe, enclosing an interrupted thread of 

 bluish green scales; the first inferior subcostal nervule is broadly bordered Avith 

 ferruginous to its tip. Fringe much as above. Hind wim/s of the same general hues 

 as the fore Avings, the darker base separated from the paler external portion by a 

 black bordering thread, Avhich in the upper half of the Aviug has a sinuous course, from 

 the middle of the outer tAvo-thirds of the costal margin to the loAver subcostal nervule 

 at a short distance from its base, Avhere it is interrupted by a silver comma; the 

 loAver half has a crenulate, nearly straight, general course from the upper median 

 nervule, an interspace's Avidth from its base, tOAvard the deepest part of the excision 

 of the inner margin of the Aving. Within this the Aving is nearly uniform dark broAvu 



