350 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW EN(iLAXI). 



Beneath, grayish lirown. greatly variegated, more so than in any other species of 

 Polygonia. The Iiasal half of the /ore wings is a little darl-cer than the apical half, and 

 at its outer Ihnit becomes developed — always in the J , usually in the $ , — into a much 

 darker colored mesial band whose exterior border only has a definite outline ; this 

 passes from a little beyond the tip of the costal nervure in a shallow curve, opening 

 outward, to the base of the straight portion of the i;pper median nervule, just previous 

 to reaching which it is generally blurred ; from this point it crosses the upper median 

 interspace in a straight line and then passes in another shallow curve, opening outward 

 and backward, and sometimes interrupted at the nervules, to a little before the middle 

 of the inner margin; the 1)and is black next this exterior margin but speedily becomes 

 dark, fuliginous brown; above the cell the band has also a distinct interior margin, 

 striking the subcostal nervure at the base of its second branch, and is followed inte- 

 riorly by an ashen patch becoming brownish yellow in the cell; in the cell are three 

 brownish plumbeous, obli(iue streaks, the basal one black edged, parallel to the subcos- 

 tal nervure, resting upon the median nervure close to the base and directed toward the 

 second, which is slightly arcuate, on a line with the previous but always separated from 

 it by a little space, depending from the subcostal nervure, just within its first divarica- 

 tion ; the third, edged with black only occasionally or partially, is seated upon the 

 median nervure just Avithin its first divarication and has its inner edge on a line with 

 the outer edge of the second, with Avliich it becomes sometimes partially confluent and 

 often has its outer border more or less blended in tlie mesial band ; from the first 

 inferior subcostal to the lower median nervule there is a submarginal series of black 

 lunules, which have become so blended as. on account of the excision of the wing, to 

 form one continuous luuule with crenulate interior border, broadest in the upper median 

 interspace and diminishing toAvard either end, Avhich is A'cry largely filled with I'ather 

 pale, dull green, scarcely connected lunules ; connected Avith this series there is a double, 

 greenish spot in the medio-submedian interspace edged on all sides AA'ith black ; and in 

 the tAvo subcostal interspaces succeeding it above are slight greenish spots, edged in- 

 teriorly Avith black arroAv -heads, and Avithout Avith a fcAv cinnamoneons scales; outside 

 the connected lunules the border of the Aving is dusky, cousideral^ly variegated, especially 

 in the tAvo middle interspaces. Avith ochraceous next the margin, and Avith Avhitish next 

 the lunules ; above the first inferior subcostal nervule tlie apex of the Aviug is filled by 

 a quadrate patch of ochraceous, tinged, especially iuAvardly, Avith dusky ferruginous, the 

 upper interspace having a ferruginous arrow-head in continuation of those in the inter- 

 spaces beneath ; following this and the black lunules is a slender, obscure, Avhitish 

 stripe nearly obliterated in the middle of the Aving, but moderately conspicuous tOAvard 

 either border, and Avhich is crossed Ijy a pretty strongly sinuous series of pale green, 

 roundish spots, edged to a greater or less extent on the exterior half, and occasionally 

 entirely, Avith black scales; above the loAvest subcostal nervure they follow the Avhite 

 stripe exteriorly ; 1)elow it they folloAv it interiorly ; by far the largest of them is in the 

 medio-submedian interspace, Avhere it reaches from nervule to nervule, and is foUoAved 

 interiorly by a hoary cloud of nearly the same size ; those in the lower median and 

 loAver subcostal interspaces are of about the same size, the former about one-third of 

 the Avidth of its interspace ; the rest are smaller, and that in the upper median reduced 

 to a black dot; the rest of the outer half of the Aving is of a A'arying dull, pale, yelloAvish 

 broAvn, transversely streaked by short threads of dusky ferruginous, more frequent, 

 shorter and indistinct in the subcostal area, more distant and pronounced in the median 

 area; above the middle of the loAvest subcostal interspace is a large quadrate patch of 

 ashy lilaceous. in about the centre of Avhicli occurs the last divarication of the subcostal 

 nervure; Avithin this patch, and as far as the mesial band, the Aving is again a little 

 paler. Fringe l)lack at the nervure tips, Avith intermingled cinnamoneons scales at the 

 apex, l)roadly interrupted Avith Avhite in the interspaces. Iliud vnngs similar to the 

 fore Avings in the color and general disposition of the markings ; the darker basal 

 half is separated from the outer portion by a sinuous, black line Avhich folloAvs the 

 same course as in comma; midway between it and the origin of the precostal is a trans- 

 verse black line Avhich, al)ovc the costal, is a little further removed from the base than 



