530 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



outer lower surface white, iuuer lower surface yellowish brown, the two somewhat 

 intermixed; under surface of club and the whole tip, including four or live joints, 

 dark oran<'-e; above, excepting the tip, blackish brown, the white streak on the lower 

 outer surface reaching the orange portion of the tip. Tongue pale brownish fuscous, 

 b isal quarter pale luteous ; papillae (61 : 40) less than a dozen and a half in number on 

 each maxilla, widely separated, about as long as the width of one maxilla, cylindrical, 

 somewhat appressed, about four times as long as broad, the apical ones more rounded 

 and elon<i-ate-ovate, the edge of the cup sharp, the central filament shorter than the 

 width of the papilla, bluntly tipped, slender and cylindrical. 



Thorax covered above Avith greenish brown liairs, on prothorax and patagia strongly 

 tino-ed with fulvous; beneath white, faintly tinged with butt' on the metathorax. 

 Fore leo-s very pale fulvous externally, beneath white; other legs pale tawny fulvous, 

 the femora white beneath. Spines and spurs of the color of the upper surface of the 

 legs ; claws castaneous ; pulvillus blackish. 



Win"-s above varying from pale to deep orange (often varied with clustered or inde- 

 pendent scales of buft' yellow, especially on the apical half of the fore wings in the 

 female) heavily marked with blackish brown. Fore icings : The veins mostly blackish ; 

 the basal three-fifths of the costal ])order broadly, and the whole inner border nar- 

 rowly, edged with black; on the basal three-fifths of the Aving are, normally, two 

 transverse bands, besides the spot occupying the base; the latter extends one-third 

 the distance toward the extremity of the cell, and is seldom enlivened by any orange 

 markings, although frequently speckled extensively with greenish yellow scales; the 

 inner transverse band consists of a series of broad rings, flattened at their junction on 

 the nervures and in the middle of the cell, their sides formed of opposed curves, the 

 whole as broad as, some broader than, the marginal interspaces, forming an arc of a 

 circle Avhose centre is at the base of the Aving, the outer border removed from the apex 

 of the cell by its oavu Avidth or even less, and including orange spots, sometimes obscured 

 Avith o-reenish yelloAV scales, sometimes obliterated Avitli blackish; the inner edge of 

 this band, and almost ahvays its loAver extremity, is obscured by 1)lackish in the sur- 

 roijnding parts ; the outer band is usually ( c^ ) or sometimes (?) broken ; its outer 

 limit, starting from the costal border, at three-fifths the distance from the base, 

 runs downAvard and outAvard, in a nearly straight, oblique line, to the upper median 

 nervule, striking it at one-third the distance from its origin ; here it turns abruptly 

 inward and crosses the upper median interspace, at the middle of its Avidening portion, 

 bv a deep lunule opening outward; the rest of the outer border has a curved or oblique 

 limit, curving in the loAver median interspace, and then turning obliquely outward, 

 reaching the black inner border at about three-fifths the distance from the base of the 

 Avino- ; Avhen the band is broken it is at the loAvcr median nervule, and even the upper 

 median interspace is fjuite devoid of any sign of it ; the inner limit of the band varies 

 o-reatly and is frequently obscure ; but the upper part of the baud is formed by an 

 oblique, elongated, triangular patch, depending from the costal border and reaching 

 the upper median, narroAving as it goes, at first greatly, afterAvards more gradually; 

 the loAver half is formed of a broad belt, at least in the medio-submedian interspace, 

 Avliose inner margin crosses the nervures at about right angles, running downward 

 from a point generally about midAvay betAveen the two divarications of the median 

 nervure; bctAveen these tAVo bands, aud, usually (at its upper, outer extremity, if not 

 altogether) merged in the outer one, is a slender, ovoid, transverse, black circlet, its 

 inner edge marking tlie extremity of the cell ; these markings are very frequently more 

 or less blurred, and sometimes are slightly flecked, especially in the middle and loAver 

 half of the wing, Avith greenish yelloAv scales, but the extreme base of the median 

 interspaces, and the loAver portion at least of the subcosto-median interspace, just 

 beyond the cell, are generally devoid of black scales, even when the band is contin- 

 uous and the wing most obscured, or if they are present, they are not clustered. The 

 outer margin is broadly bordered, to the Avidth of an interspace, with black, foUoAved 

 by an obsolete series of faint, delicate, orange or buft' orange, or greenish yelloAv 

 luriules opening outAvard, and in the upper median interspace by an open orange space ; 



