460 rilK BUTTERFLIES OF >:ew encland. 



larjjier tlian above, roundisli, one-third the widtli of tlie Interspace. At the distance of 

 about an interspace and a half fi-om the upper half of the outer border and at less 

 than an interspace from the lower half of the same, is a series of curving stripes, par- 

 allel to the outer border, which vary in character; in the upper two interspaces they 

 are slender, white lunules; in the next four, slender stripes or lunnles or double 

 lunules, blue — the lower one sometimes more or less fuliginous — edged on either side 

 with a delicate brownish line, the upper one boi-dered also on either side Avith Avhite; 

 l)elow this they are pretty large, slightly curving lunules of blackish l)rown ; beyond 

 this the wing is slate gray above, sometimes with a ])luish tinge, as far as the lower 

 subcostal nervule, Avhich is tipped with a large blackish spot ; and below this tlie bor- 

 der is very pale dull greenish, sometimes slightly nacreous, with a blackish thread, 

 slightly thickened and sometimes incurved at the nervules, running through the mid- 

 dle ; the border is very narrowly edged with black ; fringe white, interrupted pretty 

 l)roadly with black at the nervule tips, excepting at the base. Hind loliu/s hrowmsh 

 fuliginous sometimes with an olivaceous tinge, the veins white, excepting Avhere they 

 cross the ocellate spots near the outer border. A distinct, nearly straight, slender, 

 Avhite stripe crosses the base of the wing fi"om a little within the middle of tlie basal 

 two-thirds of the costal margin, which as far as this is edged with white, to the median 

 nervure. half way from its base to its first divarication; Avithin tins band, with tlie 

 exception of a similar Avhite stripe, subparallel to it at the extreme base, the Aving is 

 garnet red, specked Avith black and Avhite scales. Crossing nearly or (piite the Avhole 

 of the cell, betAveen the first divarication of the subcostal nervure and a little Avithin 

 that of the median nervure, is a large, oval, transverse spot of the same cohn*, narroAvly 

 edged Avith Avhite. Crossing the middle of the Aving is a broad, irregular, Avhite band, 

 made grayish by black flecking and slightly tinged AvithyelloAvish, excepting a narrow 

 interior and broader exterior uniform border, and enclosing at the base of the subniar- 

 ginal interspaces, betAveen its oavu narroAV internal white edging and a line draAvn 

 from just Avithin tlie second divarication of the median nervure to the upper sulicostal 

 nervule, subparallel to tlie outer border, a large triangular blackish patch, mingled 

 Avith olivaceo-fuliginous scales and traversed by the Avliite veins ; the interior 

 border of this baud starts from about the middle of the costal margin and Avith a 

 slight curve in the first half of its course runs to the base of the first subcostal ner- 

 vule ; it crosses the cell close to and parallel with its outer Ihuits ; the loAver median 

 interspace a little Avithin the second divarication of the median nervure ; the medio- 

 submedian as a band nearly in continuation Avith the last ; is then bent iiiAvards 

 nearly at a right angle, and afterAvards crosses from the internal nervure to the inner 

 margin at right angles to the latter, far tOAvard the l)ase ; the exterior margin of the 

 band forms, as far as the median nervure, a succession of slight curves, foUoAving a 

 general shalloAV curve, opening outAvard, from the costal margin, Avhere the band is as 

 broad as the smaller ocellus, to the upper median nervule, about midway between the 

 oval spot in the cell and the outer margin ; from here it f oUoavs another series of sim- 

 ilar curves, Avhicli comljine to form another large but deeper one, arching the lai'ger 

 ocellus and reaching the middle of the loAver half of the medio-submedian interspace at 

 about one and a half interspace's distance from the outer border; here it rounds oft' and 

 turns upAvard at less than a right angle and strikes the inner margin at its change of 

 curve; next this mesial band, there is a luie of blackish scales, separated from the 

 Avhite by a feeljle fuliginous line. Occupying a little more tlian the Avidth of an inter- 

 space, there is, in the loAver sul)costal and loAver median interspaces, nearer tlie mesial 

 band than the outer margin, a large, circular, eye like spot ; that in the median interspace 

 half as large again as the other, consisting, first, of a central, circular, dark fuliginous 

 or dull metallic green disc, of half the Avidtli of the interspace, narrowly edged Avith 

 blue, supplanted interiorly by Avhite, followed by a broad annulus of dark olivaceo-fulig- 

 inous, edged narroAvly Avith greenish yelloAv, usually first filling the Avidtli of the inter- 

 space, — and all heavily bordered Avitli velvety black ; in the subcostal spot, the central 

 disc is as large as in the other, but consists of a mixture of purplish Ijlack, metallic 

 green and blue scales, of Avhich the former predominate beloAV, aiul the latter above, 



