644 THE BUTTERFLIES OF XEW ENGLAND. 



previous to the tip of the cell is a transverse, black line not inf recpiently merged in part 

 in the large, black patch beyond the cell ; the extreme base of the subcosto-median and 

 upper median interspaces are usually marked with fulvous ; in the outer half of the 

 wing, besides a single submarginal distinct luuule in the upper median interspace, 

 nearly the width of an interspace from the margin, there is between this and the 

 darker base a double, transverse, sinuous series of fulvous spots, the inner ones tinged 

 with ochraceous, the outer with cinnamoneous ; the inner ones form a band of varying 

 width, whose interior border passes from the middle of the outer two-thirds of the 

 costal mai'gin in a nearly sti-aight line to a little before the middle of the upper median 

 nervule ; from here it passes in a rather deep curve, opening outward and dentated at the 

 middle median nervule, to the middle of the outer two-thirds of the submedian nervure ; 

 this band is broken by the blackish nervules which are sometimes broadly margined 

 on either side of the band ; in the snbcostal region the band is twice as broad as the 

 interspaces and it is nearly as wide in the lower median interspace, but it is narrower 

 above and below that ; the outer row of spots are much smaller, more distinctly broken 

 up into roundish spots, largest in the middle of the wing and diminishing regularly 

 toward either border, their outer margin parallel to the outer border, their inner 

 scarcely separated below the lowest subcostal nervule from the inner row of spots, 

 but above diverging from it ; outer margin faintly edged by a black line ; fringe black- 

 ish fuscous, narrowly interrupted in the interspaces by white lunules which do not 

 reach the base of the fringe, at the apex wholly Avhitish. Hind wings\\e&\i\y blotched 

 Avith black at the base, reaching in the cell as far as the middle, above it as far as the 

 base of the first subcostal branch, below it as far as the base of the second median 

 branch ; but in this space sometimes occur fulvous spots showing that the blackish base 

 is made up of agglommerated, transverse, black streaks; the apex of the cell is marked 

 by a distinct, blackish arc, opening iuAvard, its extremities united to a similar transverse 

 line near the tip of the cell, and so enclosing betAveen them a reniform, fulvous spot ; the 

 outer margin is very broadly bordered — to the depth of more than an interspace's Avidth 

 — Avitli blackish broAvn, through the middle of Avhich run connected series of very 

 obscure, clouded, gray, slender lunules, becoming more distinct and paler next the 

 inner margin ; in the costo-subcostal and medio-submedian interspaces, the border 

 extends nearly tAvice as far toAvard the base and its inner extremities are connected by 

 a transverse, arcuate, poAvdery, black line parallel to the outer border (frequently 

 absent betAveen the middle subcostal aud middle median nervules) and thus enclosing 

 between it and the outer border, squarish, fuh'ous spots in the centres of each of 

 which is a roundish, medium sized, black spot; a pale annulation in the medio-sub- 

 median interspace indicates a similar spot there; the veins are all blackish, excepting 

 that sometimes the basal half of the loAvest subcostal is fulvous; fi'inge dull Avhitish 

 overlaid at extreme base by dusky broAvnish, and somcAvhat and narroAvly infuscated 

 at the nervule tips. 



Beneath, pale greenish ochraceous ; fore vjings slightly suftiised in part Avith fulvous 

 clouds; crossing the cell a little beyond the middle is a broad, irregular, fulvous bar, 

 seated on the median at its first divarication, with sinuous, darker, outer and inner 

 borders, the outer occasionally deepening into black beloAv; a similar, narroAver spot 

 marks the tip of the cell, just beyond Avhich, depending from the costal margin, is a 

 broad, blackish patch, reaching the upper median nervule, narroAving as it passes 

 doAVUAvard, generally tAvice as broad above as beloAV, its exterior border a little concave, 

 opening outAvard, and passing just Avithin the l^ase of the third superior subcostal nervule, 

 its interior keeping a little outside the limits of the cell ; in the upper median interspace 

 is a small, blackish luuule as deep as broad and removed from the base of the inter- 

 space by its oAvn Avidth ; occupying the base of the loAver median interspace and 

 crossing also the interspace beloAv is a second large, black patch, made up of tAvo spots, 

 each ((uadrate and occupying the Avhole Avidth of either interspace, but the loAver 

 one much the larger, surpassing the upper in either direction ; Avithin the latter, beloAV 

 the base of the loAver median, is a small, black patch sometimes containing a fulvous 

 spot, sometimes reduced to a transverse sinuous line; crossing the middle of the 



