472 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Avhicli meets that of the pinkish triangle seated on the median nervure ; it also sends 

 a tortuous thread to the lower sub-costal nervure, parallel to and in the neighborhood 

 of the exterior border of the band. Beyond the transverse white band, which is edged 

 rather narrowly with blackish, the apex of the wing is pale, dingy ochraceous; the 

 white spots of the upper surface reappear, the two uppermost usually edged both 

 exteriorly and interiorly with blackish, and, with another cloudy white spot in the 

 interspace below, form a short band; the third and fourth spots are margined with 

 black, more heavily interiorly than elsewhere, and on tlie same side are followed 

 by a slender demiannulus of ochraceous, followed again by black; the fifth spot 

 usually has a slight black line at its exterior margin ; distant from the outer margin 

 by about half the width of an interspace, and parallel to it, is a cloudy, white, contin- 

 uous stripe, broadest above the penultimate subcostal nervule, bordered with dull 

 blackish fuscous, especially on the narrower portion, which is much broader on the 

 interior tlian on the exterior side; margin dull ochraceous, sometimes infuscated at 

 the nervures; fringe white, interrupted moderately with black at the nervure tips. 

 Hind I'nnr/s dull brownish ochraceous, rudely marbled with various markings, the veins 

 yelloAvish white, sometimes tinged with brown on the outer half of the wing; extreme 

 base of costal border pale ; a slightly tortuous, transverse, pale stripe, narrow, except- 

 ing above, crosses from the costal border to the median nervure, a little removed from 

 the basal portions of the costal and subcostal nervures ; it is margined interiorly with 

 black specks and followed upon the costal border by a larger and a smaller black spot ; 

 near the middle of the cell a large, oblong, oval, transverse, black spot, largely bespecked 

 with pale and ochraceous scales and narrowly margined with Avhite, crosses the cell 

 just below the first divarication of the subcostal nervure, its larger end uppermost; 

 above it in tlie upper part of the costo-subcostal interspace is a fuscous spot, sprinkled 

 with ochraceous; crossing the wing is an inconspicuous, interrupted white line, 

 corresponding to the interior margin of the mesial band of V. huntera and taking 

 the same direction as there ; it is usually bordered exteriorly by a few blackish scales ; 

 crossing the base of the subcostal interspaces and the subcosto-median interspace just 

 beyond, and including the tip of the cell, is a large, transverse, triangular, black spot, 

 filled, excepting near its limits, with a considerable sprinkling of ochraceous scales, 

 its exterior margin at right angles to the nervure ; beyond this, the subcosto-median 

 interspace is filled with a quadrate white spot merging exteriorly, at its narrowest 

 part, into brownish; tAvo snbparallel, subcontinuous series of irregular, whitish, 

 curved lines, at about three-quarters of an interspace's distance from each other, cross 

 the wing beyond tlie middle ; the outermost series follows a general shallow curve 

 from about the middle of the outer half of the costal Ijorder to a little above the mid- 

 dle of the upper median nervule, and then another from this point to the middle of 

 the medio-submedian interspace, where it turns inward again toward the inner border; 

 each of these series is faintly edged interiorly with black, and in the medio-submedian 

 interspace there is a fragment of a third series, parallel to the second; it is followed, 

 like the portion of the second contained in the lower median interspace, by a consid- 

 erable patch of white or yellowish white. There is a submarginal series of five circu- 

 lar or nearly circular ocelli in the subcostal, subcosto-median and median interspaces, 

 distant aboutthewidthof an interspace and a half from the outer border ; the uppermost 

 is simplest and smallest, being a small brownish or ochraceous spot,Avith a few scattered 

 black and blue scales near the centre, enclosed at the outer end of a much larger oval 

 white field; the second has a large central disc of purplish black, with a fcAv blue and 

 ochraceous scales near the centre, and surrounded by a narrow annulus of dull yellow, 

 bounded again, especially interiorly and exteriorly with black, the whole barely occu- 

 pying the width of the interspace ; the third and fourth are similar to each otlier, 

 smaller than the second, and consist of a central disc of dull, dark gi*een, largely 

 besprinkled with bluish scales, which seem to avoid the l)lackish edge, the centre and 

 to some extent the exterior portions ; it is surrounded by a narrow, dull yellowish 

 annulus, which becomes white interiorly, and usually expands somewhat in the same 

 region: in the fourth, this is usually bounded below by black; the fifth is of the size 



