722 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



lower median interspace, and all of the medio-subniedian interspace excepting the broad, 

 black border; beyond, all is black, spotted and streaked with white and tawny; the 

 whole costal boi-der as far as the subcostal nervure is black, with live white dashes in 

 the basal three-fourths of the wing; two just above the tip of the cell, the under usu- 

 ally the longer, divided by the first subcostal nervure; a similar pair, sometimes 

 united, beyond, at a little less distance than the greatest width of the cell ; and a single 

 dash at an equal distance toward the base. Outer margin with a wide border of black, 

 nearly or quite as broad as an interspace ; a row of fourteen or less small, submar- 

 ginal, whitish spots, two to each interspace above the submedian nervure, the 

 upper roundish, the lower usually oval and diagonally disposed; this row is followed 

 interiorly by a series of eleven or twelve larger, unequal, roundish spots, the upper- 

 most usually white, the others of a bufl", tawny color, approaching the submarginal 

 row below and confluent with it at the lowest spot, above curving abruptly inward ; 

 a large, triangular, black patch, just beyond the cell, bordered below by the upper 

 branch of the median, unites the black edging of the costal and outer borders and 

 contains five large spots, usually of a bufl', tawny color, the upper ones often more or 

 less white ; two of them are oblong, ovoid patches, one above the other, forming a row 

 just beyond the extremity of the cell, in continuation of the two middle spots on the 

 costal border; two others are situated one above the other, separated only by a ner- 

 vule, just beyond the outer pair of costal spots ; together they form a large, quadrate, 

 transverse patch ; the fifth is as large as the last two together, roundish or subquad- 

 rate, situated beyond the middle of the subcosto-median interspace ; beyond this tri- 

 angular patch each of the three larger subcostal interspaces has an oblong tawny 

 patch, much obscured by black scales, especially along the edges, which are conse- 

 quently ill-defined ; whole of the inner border, beloAv the submedian nervure, black, 

 excepting a slender, longitudinal patch next the base ; fringe white, interrupted with 

 blackish bi'own, broadly at the nervure tips, narrowly at the middle of the interspaces. 

 Hind icings with a black border as broad as the width of an interspace, extending 

 from the anal angle, nearly as far as the first divarication of the subcostal nervure; 

 this is enlivened by two rows of roundish white spots, sometimes tinged with tawny, 

 equidistant from each other and from each border, two in each row in each principal 

 interspace, the middle ones small, sometimes obsolete, those at either extremity 

 larger ; especially is this the case with those of the upper row next the anal angle, 

 and still more with those situated on the costal border, where the two rows are con- 

 fluent and end in a large, ill-defined, quadrate spot at the very extremity of the black 

 bordering ; the inner margin is narrowly edged with black aiid on the anal area the 

 brighter colors are usually paled. The male is provided witli a small, raised, oval, black 

 patch on the inner side of the first median nervule, midway between its origin and 

 the black border ; fringe as on the fore wings. 



Beneatli ; fore wings of the same color as on the upper surface, Avitli the same and 

 a few additional markings; the black median nervure is, however, bordered in the 

 tawny field by reddish tawny instead of black ; the inner border is of a soft drab 

 brown, the white spots of the outer margin greatly enlarged and conspicuous, the 

 colored patch in the principal subcostal interspaces much more conspicuous, occu- 

 pying almost the whole of the interspaces not obscured by black scales and of a tawny 

 buff" color divided by the black nervules; the larger spots of the black, triangular 

 patch scarcely differ from the same on the upper surface but besides having the white 

 dashes of the costal border of the upper surface enlarged there are additional ones, 

 the single one nearest the base being accompanied beneath by another very long one, 

 and there are one or two long streaks toward the apex of the Aving ; next the base, too, 

 the costal border is streaked by an extended dash of creamy white, somewhat ob- 

 scured by blackish scales, not reaching the base nor the first white spot, and leaving 

 the costal edge black; there is also a pretty large, whitish, triangular or quadrate 

 patch in the extreme upper outer angle of the discoidal cell, and at the upper base of 

 the subcostal nervure a minute, white spot; the fringe as on the upper surface. Hind 

 wings of a nearly uniform butt* color, a little deeper next the outer margin, all the veins 



