458 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW EN(;LAXD. 



Color above ruliLiiiious black with a sliglit purplish tinge, the iierv iiles black, the 

 basal two-fifths of the costal margin, the basal two-tifths of the cell and a correspond- 

 ing portion of the base of the wing beneath the median nervnre lieavily flecked with 

 greenish golden scales; the remainder of the cell and the rest of the wing beneath the 

 median nervnre, excepting the apical half or more of the upper median interspace, and 

 the outer margin of the other interspaces to the depth of three-quarters of a'n inter- 

 space's width, golden orange, deepest in tint in the neighborliood of the black. It is, 

 however, infringed upon by a number of irregular blotches, viz., in the cell a moder- 

 ately broad, transverse, quadrate spot, usually rounded below, depentling from the 

 snbcostal nervnre, crossing the upper two-thirds of the cell in the middle of the outer 

 two-thirds of the same, barely separated exteriorly from a subtriangular elongated 

 spot, wdiich extends upward nearly or quite across the whole of the cell from the 

 median nervnre; just beyond the basal flecking in the upper half of the cell is a minute 

 black spot free from orange scales, and the outer margin of the cell is narrowly edged 

 with black ; an irregular, slender, widening stripe crosses the outer portion of the 

 orange field; in the upper median interspace it is a slender line, situated just where the 

 interspace begins to narrow ; below it is broader and widens a little at the nervures, 

 crossing the loAver median interspace at right angles, removed a little inward from a 

 direct continuation of the previous part of the belt, and the medio-sul)median as a 

 curved or bent stripe, its lower part further removed from the base of the wing than 

 its upper, and its upper extremity removed a little outward from direct continuity with 

 the preceding portion; besides these there is only the base of the low'er submedian 

 interspace, which is black as far as the second divarication of the nervnre ; and the 

 medio-submedlan interspace just below the first divarication of the median, where the 

 flecked portion of the base of the Aving is edged Avith a narroAver or Avider band of 

 black. A very little beyond the cell, in the subcosto-median interspace, there sometimes 

 occurs a usually slender, sometimes broad triangle, directed upward from the median 

 nervnre, of pale orange, leaving the loAver portion of the outer margin of the cell 

 bordered exteriorly and interiorly Avith black. Crossing the upper portion of the Aving, 

 or a little more than one-third the distance from the tip of the cell to the outer border, 

 is a transverse band of Avhite ( J ) or orange, generally pale next the costal margin (^ ? ) , 

 its interior border Avell defined, nearly straight, a little concave, reaching from the 

 costal border, or close to it, to the median nervnre, the exterior border not so distinct, 

 more curved, so that the band, otherAvise nearly uniform throughout, tapers to a 

 point beloAV ; nearer the outer margin than the band is a series of irregular Avhite spots, 

 the upper tAvo close to the margin, confluent, together sublunate, bordered exteriorly 

 with deeper black; the next tAvo, in the loAver subcostal interspaces, roundish, the 

 loAver one half the size of the upper, distant from the outer margin by the Avidtli of 

 tAvo interspaces, bordered interiorly Avith tleeper black; the fifth roundish or acorn- 

 shaped, largest, crossing the Avliole of the snbcosto-median interspace, as far from the 

 excised margin as the previous ; there is also a sixth minute, roundish spot, sometimes 

 obsolete, in the middle of the outer orange field of the loAver median interspace. 

 Distant from the outer margin by the Avidth of an interspace on the upper half of the 

 Aving, and of half an interspace on the lower half, is an interrupted series of scarcely 

 curved, iuAvard opening Innules, of pale lavender scales above the loAvest subcostal 

 norvule, of pale mingled Avith brownish scales on the next tAvo interspaces and of ob- 

 scure fuscous beloAv ; the extreme margin is edged Avith black and folloAved by a few 

 scales similar to tliose of the submarginal luunles and most distinct above. Fringe 

 blackish, darkest exteriorly, mingled Avith or interrupted by silvery Avhite in the middle 

 of the interspaces, especially the median ones. Outer border of hind iruujs pretty 

 strongly rounded, the middle half to a less extent, distinctly but not conspicuously, 

 rrecostal nervure scarcely forked at the tip. Color golden orange more or less 

 faintly beclouded Avith fuscous, principally oAving to the diaphanous nature of the 

 Aving ; veins of the same color, flecked in outer fourth of the Aving Avith blackish ; at 

 the base largely begrimed by an admixture of blackish scales, the inner margin griseous ; 

 extreme edge of outer margin bordered Avith black, as in the fore Avings; a submar- 



