572 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



closing a generally obscure, small, fulvous spot; beyond is a moderately slender mesial 

 stripe, starting from close to the costal border at about three-liftlis the distance from 

 the base and extending to the sul^median nervure at an equal distance from the same ; 

 the initial portion has a generally straight, oblique direction to the middle of the upper 

 median nervule and is formed of sciuarish spots in each interspace, each removed a 

 little further from the base of the wing than the preceding ; the three succeeding inter- 

 spaces are crossed by usually straight or but slightly curved bars, the upper median 

 in the middle of its basal half, the lower median at two-thirds the distance from the 

 border, the medio-submedian at about two-flfths the distance from the same ; at about 

 two-fifths the distance from the initial portion of the stripe to the apex of the wing, 

 is a transverse stripe, similar to that of A. cybele but seldom reaching further than 

 the penultimate subcostal nervure ; a row of black spots in the middle of the apical 

 half of the wing is exactly similar to that of A. cybele ; the two lower su])costal ner- 

 vules are narrowly bordered with black as far as the round spots and particularly 

 between them and the mesial band ; the outer margin is bordered with black to the 

 width of half an interspace, often with a fulvous line running through its middle next 

 the medio-submedian interspace and occasionally a little further up ; the inner edge of 

 the bordering is almost always straight, but sometimes hollowed at the interspaces ; 

 upon the border are seated (or, in the lower half of the wing, nearly seated) high 

 black lunules or, in the upper two subcostal interspaces, dashes, enclosing betAveen 

 them and the l)order, rounded triangular, or subcircular, fulvous spots, decreasing but 

 slightly in size above ; inner edge of the wing slightly inf uscated ; fringe black, the 

 outer two-thirds rather narrowly interrupted with yellow or whitish, sometimes ex- 

 ternally edged with fulvous. Outer margin of the hind wings not so fully rounded as 

 in A. aphrodite. Cell, as far as the enclosed black dash, and the loAver half of the 

 wing as far as the mesial stripe, and sometimes, to a less extent, all the upper half of 

 the Aving, begrimed, like the fore Avings, Avith fuscous scales ; the markings in and at 

 the apex of the cell are like those of A. cybele ; a rather slender, very irregular, broken, 

 mesial stripe, sometimes obscured on the loAver interspaces, crosses the Aving, starting 

 from the costal nervure next the middle of the border and has a general straight 

 direction toAvard the outer border at the middle of the upper half of the upper median 

 interspace, but at the spot beyond the cell, it turns at right angles toAvard the inner 

 border, terminating just beyond the middle of the loAver median nervure; a straight 

 bar crosses the costo-subcostal interspace at right angles; an oblique bar directed 

 iuAvard, its outer limit at the middle of the upper subcostal nervule, crosses the next; 

 a slightly oblique, sometimes gently curving bar, subparallel to the first, crosses the 

 loAver subcostal interspace about tAvo-tifths the distance from the last divarication of 

 the subcostal nervure ; the subcosto-median interspace is crossed at right angles by a 

 bar, sometimes curving iuAvard, scarcely less than half way from the extremity of the 

 cell to the outer border; the median interspaces are crossed by slender lunules, a little 

 oblique, their inner limb the outermost, about as far from the outer border as the bar 

 beyond the cell ; the straight half bar in the medio-submedian interspace is at right 

 angles to the nervure. Beyond the mesial band is a row of round black spots, similar 

 to those in A. cybele, and enclosing in each interspace, betAveen themselves and por- 

 tions of the mesial band, distinctly (?) or scarcely discernible (J), large, oval, clear 

 spots, the reverse of the extra-mesial band of silvery spots on the under side. Outer 

 border margined Avith black as on the fore Avings, but the middle fulvous line in 

 the medio-submedian interspace is broadened to half the Avidth of the border- 

 ing and generally extends someAvhat over the submedian and sometimes faintly, or 

 even distinctly, along the Avhole margin; nearly seated upon the margin, are Avell- 

 formed black lunules ; fringe Iniff or Avhitisli, interrupted broadly but not suddenly Avith 

 black at the nervure tips. 



Beneath : Fore unngs conforming almost exactly Avitli the coloration and niarking^s 

 of the under surface of the fore Avings of A. aphrodite, Avith such exceptions as the 

 .differences in the upper surf ace Avonld naturally require, andAviththe following excep- 

 tions : the bar bordering the outside of the cell does not usually protrude so far 



