382 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



to the lower subcostal nervule there is a submargiual l)lack stripe, parallel to ami 

 distant by the width of an interspace from the outer margin, enclosing next its exterior 

 limit an equal stripe of dark dull bluish, half as wide as the black stripe in which it 

 occurs ; betAveen this and the dark basal half of the wing it is mottled and blurred in 

 the J with black, white, pale brown, pale j-ellowish brown and ferruginous scales, 

 forming a freckled, ashy gray band, more or less ochrey in the apical half, with paler 

 patches next the costal margin opposite the lighter parts above, and with darker 

 clouds in the interspaces down the middle ; in the $ it is nearly uniformly dull, dirty 

 gray brown, paler in the costal patches and next the darker base; in both, the interior 

 half, below the middle median nervule, is traversed by frequent, short, transverse, 

 nearly straight, black or dusky threads, and there is a transverse, sinuous series of 

 blackish dots subparallel to the outer border in all the interspaces that open on the 

 outer border above the lower median nervule ; that in the upper median interspace 

 occurs in its centre; the outer margin of the wing is darker again, especially between 

 the next to the lower subcostal and the lower median nervules, where it is usually 

 marked by a darker stripe lying midway between the edge and the subnuirginal stripe. 

 Fringe as above, or not so dark. Hind wings having the darker basal half limited, 

 across the whole or nearly the whole wing, by a slender black stripe, which starts at 

 about the middle of the outer two-thirds of the costal margin and runs to the middle 

 of the basal two-thirds of the upper subcostal nervule, just before which it is bent 

 outwards ; it then curves outwards in a series of bent lines to the lower subcosta 

 nervule at a short distance beyond the base ; a second similar curve carries it to the 

 middle of the basal two-thirds of the lower median interspace ; here it starts again on 

 a similar curve, but passes as far only as the lower median nervule, then starts again 

 from beyond the middle of this nervule and passes in a series of deep loops opening 

 inward to the base of the excision of the inner margin ; lost for a short distance, a 

 continuation of the line is seen passing, when most complete, in a series of large and 

 deep loops, toward the base of the wing parallel to the inner border, crossing the 

 internal nervure two or three times ; the base of the wing is traversed abundantly by 

 transverse, short, blackish threads, and by one more distinct nearly straight stripe, 

 passing from the costal margin at right angles, and striking the subcostal at its first 

 divarication; two darker clouds, faintly edged with black, cross the cell, one at the 

 tip and a broader, slightly angular one in the middle ; there is also a small roundish 

 spot at the extreme base ; a slender, augulated, white line follows the lower half of the 

 vein closing the cell and the upper edge of the upper median vein beyond it, the 

 longitudinal limit of the L thus formed being sometimes twice as long as the trans- 

 verse; sometimes it is wholly or partially obsolete; distant from the outer margin by 

 the width of an interspace is a series of nearly or quite connected bluish crescents, 

 edged on either side with black, generally more heavily in the middle of the wing on 

 the interior side ; and between these and the mesial black line the wing is colored much 

 as in the apical half of the fore Avings, excepting that it is more or less clouded with 

 olivaceous ochrey in the middle of the outer half of the band, and within which the 

 arcuate series of black dots is found above the lower median nervule, that in the 

 upper median interspace scarcely beyond its centre; the wing is margined as the 

 middle of the fore wing and fringed as on the upper surface of the hind wing. 



Abdomen above black, more or less flecked, especially on sides and at the apex of 

 the segments, with tawny fulvous, beneath dark brown toward the base, gradually 

 merging into the dull yellowish brown which marks the apex of the segments and the 

 whole of the terminal joints. Male appendages (33:17, 18): upper organ; hook 

 almost straight, a little tumid on basal third, beyond equal, depressed at base, and 

 bearing beneath a prominent tooth. Clasps nearly four times as broad as long, diag- 

 onally falnform, the upper hinder angle slightly l)ut broadly produced and incurved a 

 little; upper basal process nearly as long as the breadth of the clasp, tapering through- 

 out but less so on the basal three-flfths than beyond ; basal portion compressed, 

 thickened along the upper edge, directed backward and somewliat upward and slightly 

 curved inward, beyond curved strongly iuAvard and slightly downward, the apex ex- 



