676 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



the cell near its extremity, a black edging to tlie extremity of the cell and a narrow 

 stripe crossing the wing irregularly, first from near the middle of the costal nervure 

 to the lower subcostal, in a direction toward the last divarication of the subcostal 

 nervure; then, curving a little outward, across the very base of the upper median 

 interspace, to the middle of the submedian nervure, where it terminates; within this, 

 the medio-submedian interspace is Avholly Ijlack, sometimes sprinkled with orange; a 

 little within the middle of the outer half of the wing, a vague, moderately broad, 

 arcuate, black stripe runs from border to border, most conspicuous in the female, 

 often wanting in the male or indicated only iu the upper subcostal and medio-subme- 

 dian interspaces, and by a thickening of the black edging of the veins in the middle 

 of the wings ; outer margin broadly bordered with black, varying in width from one 

 and a half to two interspaces' breadth, next the costal border, and gradually lessen- 

 ing to less than half an interspace next the inner border ; in the lower three inter- 

 spaces it is edged interiorly by slender orange lunules, surmounted either by black 

 lunules, upon which are planted round, black, occasionally white-pupilled spots, or 

 else directly by the black spots Avhich form part of a series occupying also the next 

 two interspaces, where they are generally smaller and never pupilled; the black 

 border contains also a series of submarginal, transverse, sometimes obsolete, orange 

 dashes, extending, diminishing as they go, from the inner border to the middle sub- 

 median nervule; fringe white, rather broadly interrupted at the nervure tips with 

 black. 



Beneath rather pale orange, the hind wings a little deeper in color, the veins, except- 

 ing the basal half of the median nervure black. The costal border of the fore unngs, 

 excepting the basal (juarter, the extreme tip, and the part corresponding to the extra- 

 mesial, orange band of the upper surface, which is here dull yellowish, black; a small, 

 triangular, black spot, fulvous at the centre, in the middle of the basal two-thirds of 

 the cell ; crossing the middle of the outer half of the cell is a slender, tortuous 

 black line, having, in general, a slight curve opening inward; the extremity of the 

 cell encircled with a large, transversely oval annulus formed of a slender line which 

 does not touch the extremity ; beyond the cell, corresponding to the outer limit of the 

 black markings of the upper surface, is a slender, l)lack, oblique streak, frequently 

 broken into small spots, extending from the costal to the median nervure; asulmpical, 

 black patch, depending from the costal margin, fills the upper interspaces as far as the 

 middle or lower of the subcostal interspaces, which lie within the field occupied above 

 by the black bordering of the outer margin; the latter is edged with black, followed 

 by a series of orange lunules of varying height, but in general equal to three-quarters 

 of an interspace, edged narrowly within with black, and followed by a series of 

 equally irregular, but much smaller, whitish lunules, some of which, especially those in 

 the lower subcostal and subcosto-median interspaces, are occasionally obsolete; these 

 two are bordered within with black in the form of narrow lunules or sagittate spots, 

 and these again are followed by a very sinuous series of faint, yellowish white spots, 

 stai'ting on the costal border from near the middle of the subapical, black patch, curv- 

 ing outward to the lower subcostal interspace, then inward to the median interspaces, 

 that in the medio-submedian interspace being but an interspace's distance from the 

 border. Hind wings with a small, dull silvery spot edged with black at the extreme 

 base of the costal margin ; a series of three similar, but slightly larger, irregular 

 spots, edged with black and separated only by the black veins, the middle one largest, 

 nearly square, in the costo-subcostal interspace, its outer edge at the first divarication 

 of the subcostal nervure; the one in the interspace above, just above the base, the 

 one in the cell a little removed toward it, crossing the cell only by its inner border; 

 the extremity of the cell is occupied l)y another spot of similar size, edged entirely 

 Avith black; and the medio-submedian interspace by another, exactly similar, its outer, 

 upper corner touching the inner, lower corner of the previous at the first divarication 

 of the median nervure ; just below the latter, in the sul)inedio-internal interspace, is 

 sometimes seen a very small, longitudinally fusiform, l)lack edged spot. There is a 

 broad, silvery, mesial band, tinged with brownish yellow, crossed by black veins and 



