820 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



scales, mingled down the middle witli a loose cluster of pale sreenisU blue scales. 

 Palpi with the basal and middle joints covered outwardly and beneath with white 

 scales, flecked, especially toward apex, with a few blackish ones, and with frequent 

 black bristles beneath; within and above blackish brown flecked sparsely with white; 

 apical joint blackish brown, marked with white beneath and at base above, .\ntennae 

 blackish brown with a purplish tinge, the outside of the basal joint marked with white 

 and the base of all the joints of the stalk and of the b.ase of the club rather broadly an- 

 nulated with white ; two or three of the apical joints of the club wholly orange ; the 

 others dusky beneath, sometimes tinged with orange; tongue blackish fuscous, dark 

 luteous at extreme tip. 



Thorax covered above with mingled dark and light brown hairs, becoming tawny on 

 the prothorax and excepting there mingled rather profusely with light metallic blue 

 scales ; beneath white with a jnile bluish tinge, giving a silvery blue appearance, broadly 

 annulated on the femora and basal part of tibiae with dark brown on distal part of 

 tibiae and on tarsi with black ; under surface of tarsi wholly dull luteous ; spines and 

 claws dark reddish. 



Wings above blackish brown, scarcely and irregularly mottled with gray brown. 

 Fore wings having the costal edge dark orange buif and the outer edge blackish, the 

 base of the wing with a few bluish gray hairs, the surface either uniform, with a few 

 inconspicuous dull greenish blue scales on the basal half of the wing below the cell 

 (J), or sprinkled profusely with dark metallic blue scales next the base, forming a 

 brilliant jiatch, extending from the suljcostal nervure to the inner border and limited 

 outwardly by a line runiung from the middle of the upper border of the cell to the 

 base of the last median nervule, thence to the middle of the lower median nervnle 

 and thence to the inner border crossing the ncrvules at right angles ( ? ) : fringe pale 

 bufl", becoming mingled below with griseous and at the extreme base orange bufl" more 

 or less obscured with griseous. Hind winys with the outer edge blackish and the 

 ■wing covered profusely with dark metallic blue, either confined to a patch about as 

 broad as an interspace, resting on the blackish margin of the outer border between 

 the upper median and internal uervures and including minute, faint dusky spots in 

 the middle of the interspaces ( ? ) ; or occupying the whole wing, excepting the inner 

 border as far as the submedian nervure, and a broad belt on the costal and outer mar- 

 gin separated from the blue field by a nearly straight line, which extends from close to 

 the base of the costal margin, crossing the subcostal neiTure close to its divarication 

 and directed toward the outer border at the middle of the subcosto-median inter- 

 space ; just before reaching the outer border, however, it bends to the tip of the upper 

 median nervule and sends also a faint shoot of dusky scales back upon that nervule ; 

 minute, faint, dusky, submarginal spots are found in the blue field in each of the 

 interspaces, growing less distinct toward the anal angle {$)■■, the anal angle is marked 

 inconspicuously with reddish orange and the fringe at this point is of the same color; 

 elsewhere it is pale on the apical half, largely obscured with griseous on the basal 

 half, but enlivened in this part with more or less frequent, dull, reddish orange 

 scales. 



Beneath, greenish silvery gray. Fore wings with the costal margin flecked with 

 reddish orange scales ; crossing the middle of the outer half of the wing is a series of 

 reddish orange, quadrate, slightly transverse spots, bordered within faintly, without 

 distinctly but narrowly, with black, followed in the latter case by a similar edging of 

 white scales; the series consists, first, of a nearly straight row of five spots, one in 

 each consecutive interspace above the lower median nervule, the next to the upper 

 spot sometimes removed a little inward but usually all forming a slightly curved 

 band, directed from the middle of the outer half of the costal border to the middle of 

 the outer four-fifths of the lower median nervule; and second, of a similar obsolescent 

 (in the $ always obsolete?) spot, transversely linear and almost wholly made up of 

 only the black and white boi-dering; fringe dull reddish orange, paler on apical half, 

 above and below largely obscured with fuscous, especially at tip. Hind wings ■with 

 two rows of spots similar to those of the fore wings ; the inner row consists of sub- 



