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THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



upper surface are repeated beneath and bordered as there, but the outer subcostal spot 

 is faint, and the nervures are also white, excepting one in the upper part of the oblique 

 row of spots. This row lies in a blackish brown fleld, with a greenish tinge, which 

 extends within and below to the orange patch, and Avithout to the inner limits of the 

 white spots ; at the upper apex of the wing, between this black field and a line from 

 the apex of the wing toward the middle of the median white spot, the wing is 

 minutely and delicately mottled with silvery-, nacreous- and greenish-gray and dark 

 brownish, giving it a hoary gray appearance, while beyond it the falcation is dark 

 lustrous brown, enlivened by obscure paler tints. Sometimes the whole apex of the 

 wing is almost uniformly steel gray, occasionally with a lilac tinge, flecked obscurely 

 and minutely with blackish. Fringe as above. Hind wings in certain lights uniformly 

 lustrous, pale gray brown, the median nervure blackish ((J), or uniformly rather dark 

 gray brown, with a lustrous violaceo-purplish hue ($). In other lights the wing is 

 covered with a gray mottling of silvery gray scales, often tinged with pale nacreous, 

 rosaceous and greenish, excepting in three very large, dark lustrous brown patches, 

 deepening about the nervures into purplish black ; these patches are situated : one on 

 the costal margin, removed by its own width from the base, its outline on the wing 

 semi-elliptic, extending to the middle of the cell just within the first divarication of 

 the subcostal ; a second crosses most of the wing in a line subparallel to the outer 

 margin, its outer border extending from the tip of the costal to the middle of the sub- 

 median nervures, of irregular breadth, but extending to the base of the wing along 

 the median nervure ; the last occupies the outer border in a very broad band, nearly 

 twice the width of an interspace, the inner border of which extends in a broad, flat- 

 tened arch from the tip of the middle subcostal nervule to the tip of the submedian 

 nervure ; sometimes this outer patch is broader, and includes next the outer border a 

 paler portion; and it is sometimes quite indistinct; in other lights these darker 

 patches have a pale green sheen, and the inner border a pale lilac or rosaceous tinge. 

 The wings, and particularly the grayish parts, are furnished with scattered, infrequent, 

 black dots ; one larger and more marked tlian the rest occurs in the subcosto-median 

 interspace, just above the bend of the upper median nervule. Fringe as above. 



Abdomen dark brown above, with a good many lustrous, reddish brown scales, and 

 on the basal joints a few greenish hairs ; beneath silvery gray. Median hook of eighth 

 abdominal segment of $ (34 : 12, 13) very slender and finely pointed; depending lateral 

 hooks of the same a little recurved, scarcely so long as the median hook, and scarcely 

 slenderer than the latter when viewed laterally ; upper organ a little surpassing the 

 median hook above; clasps pretty regularly ovate. 



Secondary sexual characteristics. On the upper surface of the fore wing of the 

 male I discovered untoothed scales (46: 16), very sparingly distributed, which could 

 not be found in the females, and which I consequently regard as androconia. Their 

 close resemblance to the similarly scanty presumed androconia of Charidryas on one 

 side and Calephelis on the other will be noted. They are profusely striate, enlarged 

 slightly from the base outward, with straight sides, truncate tip, roundly bent outer 

 angles, and well rounded and moderately large basal lobes. 



Egg (64 : -12). Largest below the middle, with eighteen to twenty narrow, compressed 

 and prominent vertical ribs, the course of which is not always straight throughout, all 

 of which originate below, just above the rapidly narrowing base, and most of which ter- 

 minate abruptly a little below the truncate summit, while above their termination the 

 eight which continue arc much elevated, laminate, and terminate abruptly at the micro- 



