538 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



surface of the wings is not repeated beneath, exceptuig vaguely, but between these 

 and the submarghial markings there is sometimes a yelloAV line down the middle of 

 the interspaces ; the marginal markings consist of a band of purplish black half an 

 interspace's width, enclosing many olivaceous scales (sometimes occupying the greater 

 part of each interspace), followed directly liy a series of silvery white triangles, bor- 

 dered, especially interiorly, with purplish black, each whole one nearly as l)road as the 

 interspace; the inner border as far as the submedian nervure, and, on the basal half 

 of the wing, the lower portion of the next interspace, brown gray. In the female, 

 the Avhole apex of the wing is washed Avith olivaceous, where it is orange in the male ; 

 fringe as above. Hind wings dark, rather brilliant olivaceous, the inner Ijorder, as far 

 as the submedian nervure, and, in the outer third of the wing, the lowest median ner- 

 vule, purplish l)lack; basal half of the costal and inner borders broadly bordered Avith 

 silvery white, the margin itself black; at the junction of the costal and subcostal, the 

 subcostal and median, and the median and submedian nervures, a moderately large, 

 subovate, silvery white spot. Crossing near the middle of the cell, but scarcely 

 reaching either side, is an oblong, transverse, subquadrate, silvery white spot; beyond 

 this are three rows of silvery white spots, all more or less edged with purplish black; 

 the first, consisting of five spots, is the most irregular; the first of them is trans- 

 versely ovate, situated in the costo-subcostal interspace, either just beyond the first 

 divarication of the subcostal nervure ( ? ) , or just opposite its second divarication {$), 

 and extends across the whole interspace; the second, very small, is in the upper sub- 

 costal interspace, next the second divarication of the subcostal nervure ; the third is 

 very large, situated on either side of the vein closing the cell and broken into two 

 spots by a very In-oad bar of purplish black ; the interior of the two is subquadrate, 

 but convex within, and tlie exterior is triangular; the fourth, obliquely ovate, is in the 

 upper two-thirds of the medio-snbmedian interspace, just below the first divarication 

 of the median nervure; the fifth, very large and greatly elongate-ovate, is in the sub- 

 medio-internal interspace, directly opposite the fourth; all these spots are pretty 

 broadly bordered interiorly with black and have a powdery exterior outline. The 

 second row of spots crosses the middle of the outer two-thirds of the wing, subpar- 

 allel to the outer border, and consists of eight large spots, one in each of the princi- 

 pal interspaces, nearly equal in size, the one beyond the cell smallest, the first six 

 elongate, subtriangular, with more or less rounded sides, the last two roundish; the 

 first four, commencing from above, are placed in a nearly straight line, running from 

 a very little beyond the middle of the costal l)order to the outer border, at the middle 

 of the upper median interspace ;' the fourth, fifth and sixth are placed in a straight 

 line at right angles with the previous ; the seventh and eighth are on a line parallel to 

 these but farther removed from the base by the width of an interspace ; all of these 

 spots are heavily bordered at base and tip, narrowly at the sides, with purplish black. 

 The third row consists of a submarginal series of seven triangular spots, one in each 

 interspace between the costal and submedian nervures, each the width of an inter- 

 space, their bases removed from the outer border by half the width of an interspace, 

 edged narrowly exteriorly, very heavily interiorly, with purplish black, the interior 

 edging of these spots often commingling with the exterior edging of the previous row 

 of spots; outer border narrowly edged with purplish black ; fi-iuge as on the upper 

 surface. 



Abdomen purplisli black, the base besprinkled above with a few orange scales and 

 long hairs, enlivened beneath, toward the tip, by a few dull orange scales. Appen- 

 dages of male (33 : 43) : upper organ with the extreme base of the hook expanding 

 sliglitly at the sides and angulated ; hook compressed so as to be laminate, of nearly 

 e<iual depth throughout until close to the tip, where, especially by an inferior incision, 

 it tapers rapidly to a hooked, delicate point; clasps with the posterior lobe- roundly 

 angulated, the superior strongly arched, the upper posterior angle produced to a 

 slightly incurved lobe directed upward and a little forward, tapering on tlie basal lialf, 

 e(iual beyond, rounded at tlie tip, about twice as long as its apical Aviilth and fringed 

 at the posterior edge Avith long, backward curved, stitt" bristles. The apical half of the 



