610 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



the three lower, occupying the succeeding interspaces, are lialf as broad as tlie inter- 

 spaces, twice as large as the preceding, and have their exterior border on a line with 

 the interior border of the upper ones; thei'e is abroad, double, marginal line, often 

 obscure, and the outer partially obsolete, the outer formed of transversely oblong- 

 ovate patches, whose centre is on thenervules (which at this point are often bordered 

 heavily on the outer side), the inner of similar but generally broader and more 

 distinct patches, Avhose centre is in the middle of the interspaces ; the upper two are 

 larger, forming a moderately large, apical, longitudinal patch; outer border edged 

 with black; fringe pale fulvous or whitish, interrupted broadly and vaguely at the 

 nervure tips with blackish fuscous. Costal border of Mnd loings straight or very 

 nearly so; outer border rather broadly rounded, more so than in the other species; 

 inner margin scarcely convex beyond the basal expansion. The basal third of the 

 wing rather heavily begrimed with black scales, especially below the median; the 

 veins, as far as the mesial stripe, distinctly but narrowly marked with black; the 

 irregular exterior border of the cell, itself distinctly fulvous, is narrowly bordered on 

 either side with black; the cell itself is crossed, just before the middle by a roundish 

 spot, and beyond by a sinuate bar, sometimes partially merged in the extreme border ; 

 a rather narrow mesial stripe crosses the Aving irregularly, formed in a general way 

 of two limbs bent, in the centre of the wing, at right angles; the upper half, com- 

 posed of broad lunules curving outward, having a general direction from the middle 

 of the costal border to the tip of the middle median nervule ; the lower half composed 

 of diagonal bars (the interior border of the upper half of this limb on a line with the 

 exterior border of the lower half) whose general direction is from the tip of the 

 upper subcostal nervule to the middle of the inner border ; it terminates at the internal 

 nervure ; a little less than midway between the mesial stripe and the outer border is a 

 continuous arcuate series of six round spots, nearly equal in size, parallel to the 

 outer border and in the same interspaces as those of the fore wings ; there is a sub- 

 marginal series of minute spots on the nervures, beyond which the nervnles are edged 

 with black, forming thns little T-shaped spots seated on the margin ; just above there 

 is a row of larger transverse patches in the interspaces, similar to that of the fore 

 Avings ; the border itself is delicately edged with black ; and the fringe is pale fulvous 

 or whitish, with a few intermingled fuscous scales, especially near the nervure tips. 



Beneath. Fore wings pale yellow fulvous, the black markings of the base of the 

 upper surface, as far as and including the mesial stripe, repeated narrowly beneath, 

 the mesial stripe broken into detached spots ; the extra-mesial row of round spots is 

 also repeated beneath, the upper one obsolete; the apex of the wing, succeeding the 

 interior border of the subapical triangular patch of the upper surface, and excepting 

 a large, roundish, dull yellow spot crossing three interspaces at the very tip, cinna- 

 moneous, enlivened above the black spots with a few dull pearly scales; between the 

 reddish apex and the black mesial band, the wing is dull yellow, and a great many 

 dull yellow scales, sometimes forming small patches, break up the broad, cinnamo- 

 neous, outer border; there is sometimes a submarginal row of darker red sagittate 

 spots in the interspaces, deepened by a few black scales and marking the interior limit 

 of the outer cinnamoneous border; costal border enlivened by a sprinkling of dull, 

 pearly scales; fringe similar to that of the upper surface, but dark brown in place of 

 black. Hind wings with a broad, irregular, intra-mesial band of pale, obscure ful- 

 vous, more or less besprinkled with cinnamoneous, but made distinct by its narrow 

 edging of cinnamoneous being often deepened by blackish broAvn ; the interior border 

 crosses tirst the costo-subcostal interspace by a bent line, midway between the divari- 

 cation of the costal and subcostal nervures and the tirst divarication of the sub- 

 costal nervure, is then parted and starts afresh from the tirst divarication of the 

 subcostal nervure and, following this nervure to its next divarication, crosses the cell 

 to a little beyond the first divarication of the median nervure, is again broken, crosses 

 the medio-submedian interspace in a zigzag course, just within the first divarication 

 of the median nervure, and the succeeding interspace a little further down, and termi- 

 nates a little beyond the middle of the internal nervure ; the exterior border starts 



