564 THE BUTTERFLffiS OF NEW ENGLAND. 



spots ill the apical lialf of the wing are exactly similar to those of A. cybele ; between 

 the subapical transverse black stripe and the apex of the cell, the loAver two subcostal 

 nervules are distinctly though narrowly edged Avith black; the median nervules, in the 

 female, are also sometimes bordered with black in the vicinity of the mesial baud ; 

 fringe black, broadly interrupted with whitish (?) orbufl*(^) in the middle of the 

 interspaces. Outer margin of hind wings more fully rounded than in the other New 

 England species. A broken and separated, irregular, bent, mesial stripe of black 

 lunules and bars, slenderer than on the fore wings, starts from about the centre of 

 the costo-snbcostal interspace, and has first a general direction toward the middle of 

 the upper median interspace on the outer border ; but when it has reached the inter- 

 space beyond the cell, it turns at a right angle toward the inner margin and termi- 

 nates at about the middle of the outer four-fifths of the submedian nervnre ; the band 

 is irregularly composed of lunules, half lunules, and bars, larger and usually more 

 bent or curved in the female than in the male, and particularly in the subcostal and 

 upper median interspaces. The markings in and at the extremity of the cell are the 

 same as in the preceding species but distinct. The base of the wings is covered with 

 fulvous hairs, and, especially along the median and submedian nervures, is consider- 

 ably begrimed Avith dark scales, reaching sometimes, especially in the female, as far 

 as the mesial band but never obscuring it, and very seldom the markings in the cell ; 

 in this part of the wing also the red assumes in a slight degree, especially in the 

 female, a fiery hue. On the outer half of the wing the markings are the same as 

 those of A. cybele and the fringe conforms to that of the same species, rather than 

 to that of the fore Avings. 



Beneath : fore icings, excepting the upper third of the Aving— limited by the loAver 

 submedian nervule, either orange bufl' (<?) or dull reddish orange (?),the black 

 markings of the basal half of the npper surface repeated ; the row of round spots 

 in the middle of the apical half of the wing is also repeated, but in the subcostal inter- 

 spaces the spots have become cinnamoneous, are more or less merged in other patches 

 of tlie same color and are preceded by silvery spots, the uppermost quite large; the 

 other spots in the same series are often, especially in the female, preceded by a slight 

 flush or edging of silvery ; the subapical patch parallel to the initial portion of the 

 mesial stripe, as well as the subcostal veins betAveen this and the cell, and the Avhole 

 apex of the Aving beyond, excepting the silvery spots already specified, others to 

 be mentioned and also usually some vague, irregular, buft" mottlings betAveen them in 

 the tAVO lower subcostal interspaces, cinnamoneous, much darker in the female than in 

 the male ; the outer border is margined with the same color to the width of half an 

 interspace, heavily above, scarcely at all below except by a double line; this is 

 folloAved by a roAv of sagittate spots, similar to those of the upper surface, black 

 below the lower subcostal nervule, above cinnamoneous or merged in the general tint, 

 enclosing large spots betAveen them and the outer border, Avhich, in the median inter- 

 spaces are of the prevailing tint, or slightly paler, but above are silvery and do not 

 decrease greatly in size. Between the subapical patch and the extremity of the cell, 

 excepting Avhere the mesial stripe crosses them, the tAVo loAver subcostal interspaces 

 are filled with pale buff, most noticeable in the female, and the same color extends to 

 the slender subcostal interspace above, to the apical portion of the summit of the 

 cell betAveen the black bars, and to the base of the subcostal interspaces just above 

 the upper, inner, silvery spot; fringe as above. Hind icings either cinnamoneous (<?) 

 or very dark broAvnish red or cinnamoneous, Avith a faint vinous i-efiection (?), the 

 veins of the same color, faintly besprinkled Avith buft' scales, especially in the female, 

 along the principal veins on the basal third of the Aving, and also broadly along the 

 internal nervure to the tip ; an oval silvery patch at the extreme base of the costal 

 border, folloAved by a narrower poAvdery streak along one-third of the border, and a 

 similar but rather broader edging the Avhole length of the inner margin ; a ratlier 

 small spot is seen at the junction of the costal and su])costal, and another at tliat of 

 the subcostal and median nervures; there is a rather large, longitudinally oval, black 

 edged spot a little removed from the junction of the median and submedian nervures, 



