594 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



spicuously fulvous on the top of the patagia, the prothovax and the flanks of the 

 metathorax; beneath pale, slightly greenish, bulf, tinged with fulvous next the wings. 

 Legs pale luteo-fulvous, the fore legs a little brighter, fringed with pale buff hairs, on 

 the female flecked beneath Avith white and black scales, the tips of the tibiae and tarsal 

 joints slightly infuscated, the spines luteo-fulvous, slightly infuscated, the spurs 

 similar, their apical half fuscous; claws fusco-castaneous; pnlvillus white, with a 

 transverse median black streak. 



Wings above fulvous, scarcely at all begrimed with blackish scales even at the ex- 

 treme base of the wings ; the basal half with markings similar in position to those of 

 B. bellona, but more slender and generally better deflned. Outer border of fore loings 

 (39 : 7) regularly rounded, inner border very slightly concave. Midway between the 

 mesial stripe and the apex of the wing a vague, blackish fuscous, triangular bar 

 depends from the costal border, never surpassing the penultimate subcostal nervule ; 

 there is a very slightly sinuous row of six roundish spots, subparallel to the outer 

 border and of nearly equal size ; the outer border of the wing, more broadly above 

 than below, is entirely blackish, its interior edge dentate, the points in the interspaces, 

 and encloses in each interspace a small, indistinct, often obsolete, fulvous spot; fringe 

 pale fulvous, rather broadly interrupted with blackish at the nervure tips. Costal 

 border of hind loings slightly convex ; outer border intermediate in fulness between 

 the other two species ; inner border slightly convex beyond the basal expansion. At 

 about midway between the mesial stripe and the outer border, or a little nearer the 

 latter, there is an arcuate row of six, nearly equal, roundish spots; the outer border 

 and the fringe as on the fore wings. 



Beneath: Fore loings pale yellowish fulvous, paler toward the apex, the costal 

 border enlivened by a few yellowish and silvery scales, the black markings of the 

 basal half of the upper surface repeated more faintly, the mesial stripe broken into 

 spots ; the series of six black spots in the middle of the outer half of the wing is also 

 repeated, the upper three spots being miimte and inconspicuous; there is a submar- 

 ginal series of delicate, sagittate spots, usually black, sometimes blackish cinnamo- 

 neous, distant from the outer border liy the width of an interspace, seated upon small, 

 sublozenge-shaped, silvery spots, which just fail of reaching the border; the upper 

 two are larger, occupy the whole width of the interspace in which they occur and are 

 tinged with buflf; a portion of the subcostal area occupying the apex of the wing, be- 

 yond a point midway between the apex of the cell and that of the Aving, is generally 

 sufl'used with a cinuamoneous hue which also spreads down the outer border beyond 

 the sagittate spots, but does not interfere with the markings; the apical spot is bor- 

 dered interiorly by a vague, buff" yellow or ochraceous stripe, and is more or less 

 varied with the same throughout; fringe as on upper surface. Hind loings dark 

 cinnamon red, the veins in the apical half of the wing darker; a silvery spot lies near 

 the base of the costal border, at the tip of the precostal nervure, its edge flecked with 

 black scales ; at the junction of each of the principal veins a pretty large silvery spot, 

 the middle one smallest, the loAver tAvo edged exteriorly Avith black ; in the middle of 

 the cell a rather small, round, silvery spot Avith a large, black pupil ; a premesial series 

 of large, subquadrate, silvery and small, subtriangular, ochraceous spots, the latter at 

 the extreme base of the subcostal and median interspaces, edged externally Avith 

 blackish cinnamon and sometimes enlivened within with a fcAv silvery scales; the 

 former, in all the other interspaces, edged interiorly and exteriorly Avith black; the 

 uppermost silvery spot is situated in the costo-subcostal interspace and is seated upon 

 the very base of the flrst subcostal nervule, both its inner and outer border emargi- 

 nate ; the second is very large, in the subcosto-median interspace, one-third Avi thin, tAvo- 

 thirds Avithout the cell, both margins rounded, its longest diameter on the median 

 nervure; the third is a little larger than the flrst, and of a similar shape, situated in 

 the medio-sulmiedian interspace, resting upon the extreme base of the first median 

 nervule; the fourth is smaller, similar, in the submedio-internal interspace, its exterior 

 margin on a line Avith the previous ; in the interspace next the inner border is an oval, 

 longitudinal patch of silvery ; there is an extra-mesial bent roAV of silvery lunules, 



