810 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



ternally with fuscous, the tip slightly paler; the papillae (61:51) slender, rod-like, 

 slightly largest in the middle, each separated from its neighbor by nearly its own 

 length, about five times as long as broad and shorter than half the maxilla breadth, 

 with six or eight vertical ribs terminating above in long produced points or bristles, 

 as long as the central filament. 



Thorax entirely covered above with very long, mouse brown hairs, those of the pro- 

 thoracic lobes and patagia tinged faintly with olivaceous, those at the posterior 

 portion of the thorax still more slightly with faint bluish ; beneath covered with sil- 

 very gray hairs. Femora covered with irridescent pearly white and dark brown 

 scales, the former greatly predominating, the latter more prominent next the 

 lower edge; this edge is rather broadly fringed with very long mingled grayish 

 white and brownish hairs, mucli longer on the outer than on the inner half, and 

 decreasing in length toward the apex ; tibiae covered with pearly white scales with 

 intermingled blackisli brown scales, scattered especially upon the upper siirface and 

 forming a rather large patch near the apex; spines black; spurs reddish, tipped with 

 black; tarsi similarly covered above and on the sides with white scales, occasionally 

 relieved by black scales, wiiich, on the upper surface and sometimes on the sides, 

 form black spots situated at the base of each joint and near the apex of the basal 

 joint; they are so large as to leave only a narrow, transverse band of white scales; 

 under surface yellowish brown ; spines black ; claws reddish. 



Wings above uniform, blackish brown in bred, grayish slaty brown in captured 

 specimens; either with the faintest possible indication of one or two small, submargi- 

 nal.duU orange spots next the anal angle of fore wings (<?) ; or with two or three more 

 frequent and larger similar spots ; sometimes also tinned faintly with dull orange on 

 the apical half of the fore wings, and especially on its lower portion (?) ; extreme 

 costal edge of fore wings delicately fulvous ; both wings edged externally with a 

 delicate purplish or brownish black line, the fringe slate brown, but next the anal 

 angle of the hind wings, as far as the lower median nervule, white in the middle; 

 iimer border of hind wings with intermingled grayish white and brownish hairs. 

 Discal spot on fore wings of male rather regularly obovate, fully twice as long as 

 broad, about 2.25 mm. long, grayish brown, paler in worn specimens. 



Beneath uniform, soft, slaty brown with a silky lustre (in other than bred specimens 

 sometimes delicately and faintly tinged with violaceous), spotted with black, red and 

 white, the fringe and edging of the wings as on the upper surface. Fore urings with 

 a somewliat irregular, transverse row of seven velvety black spots, narrowly edged 

 externally with white, lying nearly midway between the middle of the wing and its 

 outer border; the upper three in a straight or slightly curving row, one on either 

 side of the inferior subcostal nervule, and one in the apical subcostal fork; these 

 are smaller than the rest, generally round, sometimes lunate, and there is occa- 

 sionally a fourth, a dot, in the next interspace above; the two succeeding spots 

 are largest, transversely ovate or occasionally lunate, and lie parallel to the upper half 

 of the outer border, the exterior edge of the upper spot on a line with the interior 

 edge of the spot above; the two lower spots, in the next interspace below, may per- 

 haps be considered as one divided spot ; they lie at the same distance from the outer 

 border of the wing, but a little within tlie direction of the two largest spots, and 

 are sometimes obsolete. Between this row of spots and the outer border, but nearer 

 the latter and following its curve is a row of five or six black lunules, increasing in 

 size below, opening outward and partially enclosing, externally, deep orange spots of 

 vari.able shape, but usually of a uniform size ; sometimes, however, either the black or 

 the orange is obsolescent, and generally , the black pi-edominates in the male, the orange 

 in the female; the spots are in the same interspaces as those of the pi'eviously men- 

 tioned row and the lower is double in conformation but not in size; the upper spots 

 are sometimes obsolete. Hind winys with the discoidal cell closed by a narrow streak 

 of black scales, faintly edged exteriorly with white; like the fore wings, thej' have 

 two series of spots, the inner row consisting first of six ronndish black spots, 

 narrowly edged with whitish scales, especially on the outer side, a little larger than 



