380 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEAV EXGLAND. 



row of the same along the middle of the niider surface, one or two scattered black 

 scales along the sides, and all the long hairs below and at the sides black, excepting 

 on the apical joint, Avherethey are partly rnfous; the apical joint and the upper sur- 

 face of the middle joint pale, dingy rufous, the superior fringe of middle joint pale, 

 blackish at base, causing a blackish, slightly oblique stripe from the upper edge 

 of the middle of the joint to, or nearly to, its apex; antennae blackish above, faintly 

 and irregularly enlivened with rufous, beneath naked and then castaneous, the basal 

 half of each joint on its outer inferior surface heavily flecked with whitish; club 

 blackish above, dusky beneath, the white flecking dying out on some of the basal 

 joints, the apical three or four joints wholly luteous ; tongue luteous at base, with 

 blackish edges, beyond black, paler interiorly, the tip bright luteous. 



Thorax covered above with olivaceous and tawny hairs, beneath Avith pale yellowish 

 brown ones ; fore legs deep black down the middle of the front, fringed with pale 

 brownish yellow; the other legs clayey brown, the femora marked above and narrowly 

 beneath with purplish black, their tips slightly tawny, the tarsi, especially of the hind 

 pair, slightly dusky above; spines reddish luteous, the spurs the same, but black 

 tipped; claws reddish, their apical third darker; paronychia blackish. 



Fore wings above at base for scarcely more than one-fourth way to the apex, dark 

 tawny, more or less infuscated; the costal edge mottled with blackish and yellowish 

 white ; crossing the cell is a broad, irregular black bar, the outer upper corner of which 

 is at the origin of the first subcostal branch, and which just fails of reaching the 

 median nervure; it is generally rudely angular or protuberant in the middle of its 

 exterior border, and is nearly twice as broad, from nervure to nervure, as long; 

 beyond this is a large black patch depending from the costal border and reaching the 

 median nervure ; its interior limit follows the outer limit of the cell ; its exterior forms 

 an irregularly sinuous curve, which passes usually just within the origin of the third 

 superior subcostal nervule ; the patch is half as long again above as below ; beyond 

 this is another black patch of similar size and form, but with less sharply defined 

 borders, depending from the costal margin, reaching scarcely past the lowest sub- 

 costal nervule, its interior border separated at the costal margin from the preceding 

 patcli by the same distance as that is from the spot in the cell, and receding a little 

 from it as it passes downward ; it tapers rapidly in its posterior half, is rounded 

 beneath, and followed next its upper half by a small, transverse, diagonal, Avhite sti-ipe, 

 broken by dusky nervules ; beyond this to the marginal band the wing is blackish in 

 the upper subcostal area ; between these two black patches the wing is of a more or 

 less deep orange tawny, paler or yellowish in the upper third or more ; these two 

 tints occupy all of the wing beyond the base not covered by black patches ; a large, 

 reniform, black patch, with ill-defined borders, occurs just below the second divarication 

 of the median nervure, and crosses both the lower median and the medio-submedian 

 interspaces diagonally, in a direction at right angles to the costal border; in the median 

 interspaces, at a similar distance from the outer border, their outer edges next the 

 middle of the middle median nervure, are two large, deep, subquadrate, black lunules, 

 scarcely reaching the median nervules, which are edged with deeper tawny than the rest 

 of the wing ; the extreme base of the upper median interspace is more or less infuscated ; 

 in the medio-submedian interspace, midAvay betAveen the large reniform spot and the 

 outer border, is a large, transverse, ovate blotch of the same color crossing the Avhole 

 interspace, lying parallel to the lowest extremity of the outer margin, and, Avith the 

 spots in the median interspaces and the costal patch in the middle of the outer half of 

 the Aving, forming a rude, interrupted, transverse, sinuous band,Avhose outer limits are 

 suljparallel to the outer border, and Avhich is f oUoAved in the loAver tAVO subcostal inter- 

 spaces, and all those beloAv it excepting next the inner border, by orange taAvny , more or 

 less begrimed Avith broAvnish, and enclosing in the middle of the interspaces faint, ill- 

 defined, longitudinally ovate, pale patches; outer mai-gin to the depth of half an inter- 

 space dusky broAvn, occasionally enlivened Avith greenish yelloAV or taAvny, and almost 

 always paler in the interspaces, and especially in those of the median area ; this is 

 deepened interiorly into dark ferruginous broAvn, sometimes mingled Avith blackish and 



