602 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



space beneath it, heavily begrimed, especially next the base, with blackish scales and 

 covered to some extent with long olivaceo-fulvous hairs ; just within the middle is a 

 slender, transverse streak which does not reach either nervure and is greatly obscured 

 by the begriming of the base; just beyond the middle of the cell there is abroad, 

 straight, transverse bar, which does not reach the median nervure and which 

 sometimes contains a slender fulvous streak; between this and the extremity is a 

 pretty broad, sinuate bar crossing the cell, and the extremity is marked by a similar 

 straight bar; a V-shaped spot, its angle outward, crosses the raedio-submedian inter- 

 space, its upper limb terminating at the first divarication of the median nervure. A 

 rather narrow, interrupted, zigzag, mesial band consists of five straight dashes ; the first 

 starts from the upper subcostal uervule at three-fifths the distance from the base of 

 the wing and crosses the subcostal interspaces in a direction at right angles to the 

 upper subcostal nervule, and is sometimes connected with the costal nervure above 

 by a small spot; the second crosses the subcosto-median interspace in the same 

 direction but removed outward from the first by fully its own width ; the third crosses 

 the upper submedian interspace, still in the same direction, but removed inward 

 from the second by double its own width; the fourth, with its inner border scarcely 

 removed from the second divarication of the median nervure, crosses the lower 

 median interspace at right angles to the nervures; the fifth crosses the medio-sub- 

 niedian interspace in the same direction, removed outward from the foiirth by its own 

 width. About one-third the distance between the upper part of the median stripe and 

 the apex is a rather broad triangular dusky patch, depending from the costal border, 

 extending just over the penultimate subcostal nervule; beyond the middle of the outer 

 half of the wing, removed from the outer border by about douljle the width of an 

 interspace, is a slightly sinuous series of six roundish spots, slightly truncate ex- 

 teriorly, the lower three a little the larger, the lowermost slightly approaching the 

 outer border; there is a submarginal row of triangular spots, their outer edges about 

 three-quarters of an interspace from the margin, enclosing between themselves and 

 the black -bordered outer margin, a series of transverse, sometimes continuous, fulvous 

 streaks, larger and more conspicuous below than above; fringe mingled yellowish 

 white and fulvous, interrupted broadly, sometimes very broadly, with blackish at the 

 nervure tips. Costal margin of hind icings very slightly concave in the middle ; outer 

 border well rounded, more uniformly curved than in the other species; inner margin 

 more broadly expanded near the base than in the other species, a little excised before the 

 extremity. The basal half of the wing, as far as the mesial stripe (excepting the base 

 of the subcostal interspace, and the extremity of the cell) and, in the medio-submedian 

 region, even to the outer border of the wing, more or less heavily begrimed with 

 dusky scales, partially concealing some of the markings; the inner border is very 

 broadly and heavily covered with long, olivaceous hairs ; extremity of the cell narroAvly 

 edged with black ; just within it a narrow, transverse, curving, black stripe crosses 

 the cell, meeting the terminal stripe above; not far from the middle of the cell is 

 another similar stripe, almost entirely concealed in the griminess of the surface. A 

 partially interrupted, very irregular, rather narrow, mesial stripe, composed of curving 

 bars, crosses the wing; the subcostal interspaces are crossed a little beyond the mid- 

 dle of the basal half by a common, curving bar, opening outward ; the subcosto-median 

 by a lunule, curving in the opposite direction, at about two-fifths the distance from 

 the extremity of the cell to the outer margin; the upper median by an oblique, some- 

 times sinuous bar, running at right angles to the part of the nervule on which it rests 

 above, its exterior border on a line with the interior border of the previous lunule ; 

 the lower median by a straight bar, at right angles to the nervules, starting midway 

 between the extremity of the previous bar and the second divarication of the median 

 nervure ; from here it seems to be continued in a nearly straight line to the submedian 

 or even the internal nervure, but is greatly obscured by the begriming of the wing. 

 In the middle of the outer half of the wing is an arcuate series of six rather large, 

 round, black spots ; the outer border is rather narrowly edged with black, there is a sub- 

 marginal series of triangular spots, the extreme edges sometimes a little concave and 



