444 J'HE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW FINGLAND. 



simious exterior l)ordering of bluish -wliite and yellowish white scales, and interiorly 

 more or less enlivened by similar or by dark red scales. Scarcely beyond the middle 

 of the cell is a velvety black tlgnre-of-eight spot, crossing the whole of the cell and 

 narrowly edged, exteriorly and interiorly, but not within, with white scales; just 

 beyond it, a slender, irregular, broken, tortuous stripe of dark red scales crosses the 

 wing; the extremity of the cell is marked by a narrow bordering of velvety black, 

 enclosing a black or olivaceous brown nervule, the portion within the cell extending to 

 tile last divarication of the subcostal nervure, and there curving over outward into the 

 iq^per subcostal interspace ; that outside the cell crossing both these interspaces and 

 in the upper curving upward to meet the upper portion. Basal half of costal l^order 

 more or less spotted with dark red, interrupted by pale, dirty yellow scales; on the 

 costal border, its interior margin just alcove the ilivarication of the subcostal nervure, 

 is a large yellowish white patch, extending half way to the extremity of the costal 

 border and dowMnvard, greatly narrowing in its course, half way or wholly across the 

 costo-subcostal interspace, interruptedly edged, interiorly and exteriorly, with black, 

 sometimes in broken continuation of the branches of the black spot at the extremity 

 of the cell. A short distance beyond the tip of the cell the wing is crossed by a pair 

 of irregularly parallel, tortuo-sinuous, delicate lines, the inner blackish, the outer dark 

 red, distant fi'om each other by half the width of an interspace, the inner from the 

 extremity of the cell by double that distance. There is a series of large, roundish or 

 o\al, blackish fuscous spots, each occupying the Avhole width of an interspace, their 

 outer edges coinciding with the interior border of the marginal orange band of the 

 upper surface, those iu the subcosto-median and upper median interspaces being 

 almost wholly tinged with dull metallic green, the others pupilled with brighter 

 green, all having a delicate pale edging, surmounted interiorly by a black crescent 

 and followed exteriorly by a moderately broad band of yellowish l)rown, mingled with 

 some dark red scales, and this again, at about three-quarters of an interspace's distance 

 from the outer border, by a narrow, often interrupted stripe of metallic l)lue and 

 green scales in a black iield, broadest and someAvhat sagittate in the centre of the 

 interspaces; tlie large spots are only conspicuous in the subcostal, subcosto-median 

 and median interspaces where the subniarginal metallic stripe is narrowest ; iu the 

 medio-submedian interspace, its place is occupied only by the black surmounting. The 

 outer bordering is dull white, having a pale pinkish hue, more or less sprinkled, es- 

 pecially in the upper third of the wing, Avith blackish scales, the margin itself nar- 

 rowly edged with alternate patches of dark red scales mingled with black and dirty 

 yelloAv, the former at the nervure tips, the latter surmounted, in the middle of the 

 interspaces, by slender, tapering black dashes. The inner area is mostly occupied by 

 a grayish commingling of yellowish white and blackish scales, but also enlivened by 

 metallic, reddish and brown scales, scattered irregularly thi'oughont and by transverse 

 lines of clustered scales of the same colors, mostly in continuation of those in 

 tlie middle of the wing. Inner half of the wing covered with a few scattered, 

 not very long Avhite hairs ; fringe as above. 



Abdomen above purplish black, covered, especially near base, with long, brown 

 hairs; beneath with mingled, dull olivaceous brown and dull, pale yellow scales, some- 

 times one and sometimes the other predominating. Appendages of male (33 : 29, 29a) : 

 upper organ pretty large, body compressed above, strongly arched ti'ansverse- 

 ly, straight longitudinally; hook as long as body, the basal four-flfths stout and 

 tumid, arched transversely, but slightly depi'essed, tapering, the apical flfth equal, 

 l)ifid, formed thus of two lateral pieces, their apices pointed and slightly incurved; 

 inferior arms stout, equal throughout, bent at nearly a right angle in the middle, 

 bluntly rounded at the tip. Clasps of about equal length and breadth, half as broad 

 again at the base as at the tip, with the lower and hinder edges slightly incurved, 

 the upper posterior angle slightly produced and bearing a minute, short, tapering 

 spine, incurved and directed a little upward; interior finger compressed, horizontal, 

 very long, scarcely tapering until near the tip, nearly straight, curving a little inwai'd 

 and upward toAvard the tip. scarcely reaching the extremity of the clasp. In addi- 



