574 thp: butterflies of new England. 



relieved by one or two costal markings, and a submarginal series of longitudiual, more 

 or less obscured, fulvous dashes ; these dashes occupy only about half the Madth of the 

 interspaces and extend from the normal submarginal fulvous spots preceded by the 

 black lunules, to and including, as if fulvous, the preceding series of round black spots ; 

 the black lunules are wholly obliterated; the black spots either form (usually) a 

 fuscous cloud obscuring this end of the band, or, in the median interspaces, are more 

 or less distinct and black. The front wings retain in an obscure way the large trans- 

 verse fulvous bar in the middle of the cell and some the fulvous lines near the middle 

 of the costa, but the marginal markings are wholly obliterated. Beneath, the brown- 

 ish red base of the hind wings suffuses most of both the wings, but is somewhat 

 infuscated. On the front wing it forms a large triangular patch depending from 

 the costa, at the inner edge of which the middle fulvous bar of the cell is undis- 

 turbed, as is also that at its tip; the inner lower fourth of the wing and the greater 

 part of the lower half of the outer margin is pale obscure fulvous ; the silvery spots 

 are suffused into common pale silvery bars. The basal half of the hind wings includ- 

 ing their silver spots is nearly normal, excepting for the obliteration of the buff, but the 

 two outer roAvs of silvery spots have amalgamated into large triangular bars, the base 

 outward, occupying the place of and entirely obliterating the pale buff submarginal 

 band, the entire ground being of a uniform smoky brownish red; moreover, the black 

 scales which form the inner margin of the inner of these two normal rows of silvery 

 spots, as Avell as the inner margin of the similar spots of the basal half of the wing, 

 have become spread into distinct rows of roundish, dark fuliginous spots, wholly 

 independent of, though touching the spots on which they are normally dependent. 

 The outer roAv of suffused silver spots is greatly obscured in the subcostal interspaces ; 

 the preraarginal buff line is nearly obsolete. Length of the fore wing, 32 mm. The 

 specimen is now in the Cambridge Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Another specimen, but a male, collected at the White Mountains by Mr. Morrison, 

 shows a slight suffusion, but on the upper side of the fore wings only, the broken 

 mesial band being suffused with that crossing vaguely the extremity of the cell and 

 the base of the median nervules, forming a broad black belt relieved only by a few 

 fulvous blotches. Length of fore wing, 30 mm. 



Secondary sexual distinctions. The whole of the submedian and lower median 

 nervules, excepting the base and tip, the whole of the upper two median nervules ex- 

 cepting the apical tifth, and of the lower two subcostal nervules excepting the apical 

 third are covered in the fore wing of the male with blackish fuscous raised scales as 

 in other species of this genus. These partially conceal the androconia, (46 : 14) which 

 differ from those of A. cybele in being smaller and stouter, and from those of A. 

 aphrodite in the greater length of the apical fringed portion, which occupies about 

 one-third of the whole scale and tapers regularly to a point ; they are about one-sixth 

 of a millimetre in length ; the basal third is black, the rest pellucid. The long hairs on 

 the hind wings above the subcostal nervure are as in A. aphrodite. 



Egg (64 : 22). Twelve to fourteen longitudinal ribs, well marked and slightly raised 

 above the elevation to which they would be brought by the wave like curve of the 

 interspaces, about .2 mm. apart, all reaching to or close to the summit ; cross lines 

 delicate, especially in the middle, more distinct next the ribs, and visible across the 

 ribs themselves, about .045 mm. apart. Surface covered with very minute, rugulose 

 circular pits, separated from one another generally by twice their own width, the 

 centres about .OOG apart, the intervening scarcely higher portion smooth and giisten- 

 ino-. Micropyle rosette (67 : 13) about .08 mm. in diameter, composed of from lG-18 

 cells with thick walls, the inner ones roundish pyriform, about .0125 mm. in diameter 

 and about half as large as the transversely elongated centre ones. Color, honey yel- 

 low at first, flecked heavily afterwards with reddish brown; height, .8 mm. ; breadth 

 near base, .75 mm. ; at summit, .22 mm. 



Caterpillar. First stage. Head shining castaneo-piceous, witli more than a dozen 

 slender, pale, tapering and pointed, sparsely spiculiferous hairs, variable in length, but 

 shorter than those of the body, regularly arranged and arising from very minute warts. 



