622 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



considerably fonvard. tlie apical joint nearly one-tliird as long as the penultimate and 

 clothed only ^vith short, recumbent scales and hairs, while the other joints are sup- 

 plied both above and below with very long, erect, and foward reaching scales and 

 hairs, all in a vertical plane. 



Prothoracic lobes greatly appressed, hollowed behind, except interiorly reduced 

 almost to laminae, upper surface rounded transversely, fully three times as l)road as 

 high, the ends well rounded. Patagia moderately broad and rather long, fully three 

 times as long as broad, the posterior lobe diminishing gradually in width, the apex 

 bluntly rounded, the inner margin nearly straight, but gently curved, exteriorly a little 

 concave, rendering the latter part of the posterior lobe equal. 



Fore wings (39 : 8) two-thirds as long again as broad, the costal margin slightly 

 curved near the base, beyond very slightly convex, the outer angle rounded off but 

 distinct; upper portion of the outer margin, as far as the middle of the subcosto- 

 median interspace, straight and at scarcely less than a right angle with the costal 

 margin ; below this as far as the lowest median interspace it is slightly concave and 

 bent inward at an angle of about 35°, below the lowest median nervule excised, the 

 angle rather broadly rounded; inner uiargin scarcely concave. First superior sub- 

 costal nervule arising in the middle of the outer two-fifths of the wing ; the three 

 following at equal distances from each other and at the same distance as is the second 

 beyond the apex of the cell ; the fourth further from the outer margin than from 

 the origin of the second ; second inferior subcostal nervule arising about one-third way 

 down the wing ; cell scarcely two-fifths as long as the wing and two and half times 

 longer than broad. Last median nervule connected with the vein closing the cell, 

 more than half as far from its base as that is from the first median nervule. 



Hind Avings Avith the costal border rather largely shouldered and well rounded next 

 the base, beyond straight or very nearly so, the outer angle very broadly rounded; 

 the outer border pretty well rounded, regularly so in the ? , rather full in tlie sub- 

 costal and subcosto-median area in the $ ; inner margin somewhat expanded but not 

 very abruptly next the base, beyond straight, scarcely and roundly emarginate beyond 

 the internal nervure, the angle rounded off. Precostal nervure directed strongly 

 outward from its middle. Second subcostal nervule originating but very little beyond 

 the first ; cell open. 



Fore legs short, cylindrical, in the male with a slight fringe of long, not greatly 

 spreading hairs on the outer side ; tibiae about two-fifths the length of the hind tibiae ; 

 tarsi about one-third (S) or about five-sixths (?) as long as the tibiae, composed 

 either of a minute, apical joint and vague indications only of other incisions, unarmed 

 ( (J ) ; or of five joints, of which the first is half as long again as all the others together ; 

 the second two-fifths of the remaining length, and the others decreasing in a regular 

 ratio, the last being only a bulbous swelling at the tip ; all but the last are furnished 

 beneath at the tip with a pair of moderately long spines, these of the first joint rather 

 slender and recumbent, of the others stout at base, tapering and prominent, the space 

 between them naked; in the middle of either side of the second and third joints 

 beneath is a single, delicate spine ( ? ). Middle tibiae scarcely so long as hind tibiae, 

 furnished on either side in the middle beneath with a row of rather short, slender, 

 tapering, somewhat spreading, distant spines, the apical ones developed as not very 

 long but slender spurs ; supplied also on the upper surface and inner side with a few, 

 similar spines, most of them arranged in an imperfect row at the upper limit of the 

 inner side. The first joint of the tarsi as long as the others together, the second 

 equalling the third and fourth combined, the fourth smallest and the fifth fully as 

 long as the third, armed beneath with four rows of short and slender, delicate spines, 

 not so numerous as usual, the apical one of each joint a little longer than the others, 

 and those of the two inner rows of the first joint apparently arranged alternately ; 

 upper surface devoid of spines. Claws very small, but rather stout, rather strongly 

 falcate, tapering to a rather blunt tip, strongly compressed ; paronychia double, the 

 superior lobe as long as the claw, but slender and curving, much less bluntly pointed 

 and scarcely tapering; inferior lobe half as long, but of the same size, curving 

 strongly inward and forward ; pulvillus moderate, neai'ly circular. 



