520 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



which become blackish l)roAvn on the middle half, enlivened with a few fulvous scales, 

 especially on the basal third externally, all the joints above marked delicately with 

 pale castaneous ; basal third beneath heavily covered with whitish or yellowish white 

 scales, which continue externally nearly to the club, as a slender line; here they ex- 

 pand again, forming a large, triangular spot of dull whitish scales on the outer sur- 

 face, excluding the apical four or five joints; club above dark brown on the basal, 

 castaneous on apical half of the joints, the middle third next the whitish scales 

 covered with blackish scales, beneath a little infuscated; the terminal four or Ave 

 joints naked or nearly so, and above much paler than the rest, inclining to luteous; 

 tongue luteous, infuscated above for the length of the first coil, beyond black at the 

 sides, above paler, the tip blackish fuscous. 



Prothoracic lobes covered Avith long hairs like those of the head, rest of thorax 

 above covered Avith long fulvo-olivaceous hairs, perhaps slightly darker on the pata- 

 gia, frequently mingled with some brownish hairs ; beneath covered with pale vinous 

 and pale grayish hairs and pale scales ; forelegs of $ covered above with fulvous 

 hairs, paler on the tarsi; of ? fulvous above, whitish below, the tarsi all pale, tinged 

 with fulvous down the f rout of the upper surface ; f emoi-a and tibiae of other legs 

 above fulvous, sometimes deep fulvous on femora, beneath white, tarsi testaceous, 

 often flecked to a considerable extent above with white scales; spurs luteo-testa- 

 ceous ; spines black ; claAvs luteo-testaceous ; paronychia pale, nearly colorless. 



Wings above pale fulvous, tinged slightly with orange, excepting in a broad, com- 

 mon, mesial band, marked Avith black and blackish fuscous, the veins, excepting the 

 base of the median, blackish fuscous. Basal half of fore vnngs a little deeper in tint 

 than the rest of the Aving, and lightly poAvdered with broAvnish, giving it a slight 

 griseous aspect, limited exteriorly by a connected, very irregular, strongly dentated, 

 transverse stripe of medium width, running from the costal border to the submediau 

 nervure ; it starts from scarcely beyond the middle of the costal border, and runs to 

 the lower subcostal nervule, in an obliquely placed curve, the lower half more boAved 

 than the upper, striking the loAvest subcostal at about the middle of its basal half; in 

 the subcosto-mediau interspace it leaps outward, its inner border being usually beyond 

 the outer border of the previous and succeeding part of the band, while in the median 

 and medio-submedian interspaces it passes by successiA^e, more or less oblique, sub- 

 parallel bars, bent outAvards, particularly on the loAver half or tAvo-thirds of each, 

 which are placed successively nearer the base; that in the upper median being as a 

 whole in continuity Avith the subcostal portion of the stripe ; that in the loAver median 

 starting from a slight distance beyond the origin of the middle median and from about 

 half an interspace's distance Avithin the termination of the previous bar, and terminating 

 at about the middle of the basal two-thirds of the lower median ; that in the medio- 

 submedian bearing the same relation to the lower median as that does to the upper 

 median bar, but usually less oblique, and terminating scarcely beyond the middle of 

 the submediau; these bars are almost always connected by slender, recurrent 

 stripes ti-aversing the nervules almost longitudinally; where this mesial stripe 

 touches the costal border it is often vague and dispersed, making the Avhole of the 

 outer half of the basal half blackish fuscous ; the extremity of the cell is marked by 

 a transverse, ])rominent bar, following and covering the veins, and the cell itself is 

 crossed by two similar bars, the outer connected above and beloAv Avith the exterior 

 bar, and so enclosing between them a transversely suboval, very pale fulvous spot, its 

 shorter axis about twice as long as the breadth of the bars, the inner crossing the 

 middle of the cell, often not attaining either nervure, and generally crescentic, open- 

 ing unvai-d, its loAver extremity opposite the origin of the loAvest median nervule; in 

 the medio-submedian interspace is a bent, transverse bar opening iuAvards, starting 

 above at the origin of the loAver median, and having its angle produced so as often to 

 touch the mesial stripe; beyond the mesial stripe, and separated from it by a Avidth of 

 from one to tAvo interspaces, is a transverse, connected, blackish fuscous streak or 

 stripe, originating above in a longitudinal, triangular, blackish fuscous spot, seated 

 with its broad base upon the costal margin, from the tip of the costal nervure to a 



