830 THK HUrrERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



edged with black, the iierviiles frequently black tipped; the fringe of the fore wings 

 is blackish brown, interrupted .at the middle of the interspaces with dull white, 

 toward which tlie blackish scales become lishter colored ; the fringe of the hind wing 

 is longest and blackish at the nervule tips, elsewhere dull white, overlaitl on tlie basal 

 two-fifths with dark Ijrown scales, sometimes tinged in part, especially in the female, 

 with ferruginous ; inner edge of hind wings with intermingled slate brown and pale 

 hairs. Discal spot on the fore wings of male very small and very inconspicuous, 

 nearly obovate, the ends not quite fully rounded, 1.5 mm. long, twice as long as broad, 

 dark grayish brown. Costal margin of hind wings straight, the outer angle broadly 

 rounded, the outer margin regularly rounded, the rounded projection of the lower 

 median nervule scarcely larger than that of the middle nervule, both distinct. 



Beneath : /ore lOinf/.s yellowish brown, fuliginous beneath the median nervure; two 

 transverse bars of dark cinnamon brown cross the cell, the inner slightly bordered 

 interiorly with black, tlie outer edged with a few white scales; an irregular, broken, 

 dark cinnamon brown band, edged externally by a slender line of black scales, bor- 

 dered conspicuously with white, crosses the wing, with a general direction subparallel 

 to the outer border, at less than half the distance from the middle to the outer edge 

 of the wing; from the costal border to the median nervure it is irregular in direction 

 and has a slightly inward course, striking the latter just beyond the middle of the upper 

 branch ; in the median interspaces it consists of two lunules opening inward, the inte- 

 rior border of tlie upper arising beyond the exterior border of the upper portion of the 

 band, the exterior border of the lower generally starting from the interior border of 

 the upper; when the band crosses tlie medio-submedian interspace, which it seldom 

 does, its upper extremity is distant from the lower end of the lunule above by the 

 width of the interspace at this point; a sul)marginal row of small black sagittate 

 spots, one in each interspace, is situated in a slender stripe of cinnamon scales, 

 between which and the cinnamon line forming the border, the space is filled with 

 pearly roseate scales, interrupted, beyond the middle, by an inconspicuous, irregular, 

 cinnamon line, outside of which the scales are more pearly than roseate, and inside 

 of which more roseate than pearly; some of the scales in the upper half of the wing, 

 between the sagittate spots and the median band, and even sometimes as far as the 

 inner discal bar, are tinged with roseate; these markings vary a good deal and are 

 frequently blurred by a general sufl'usion of colors ; fringe like the upper surface, with 

 the white more conspicuous. Hind unngs with an exceedingly broad, dark cinnamon 

 brown band, generally much darker toward the edges, crossing the wing before the 

 middle; exteriorly it is narrowly bordered, on all the transverse portions of the boun- 

 dary, with black, surmounted by white; the interior border crosses the wing irregu- 

 larly, anterior to the first divarication of the median nervure, and is broken at the 

 subcostal nervure ; the exterior border crosses the wing in an exceedingly irregular 

 course : starting at the costal border but a short distance beyond the first divarication of 

 the subcostal nervure, it crosses the next interspace, between the subcostal nervules, 

 midway Ijetween the divarication and the outer border; in crossing the two succeed- 

 ing interspaces it turns inward again, until it reaches the median nervure; here it 

 again turns suddenly outward and crosses the two median interspaces in a straight 

 line at right angles to them, and reaches the lower nervule at a point midway between 

 its origin and termination ; here the band suddenly diminishes one-half in width and 

 the border crosses the remaining two interspaces in two undulations, the latter ex- 

 tending furthest outward. Within the band the vein closing the cell is bordered on 

 eitlier side by a line of black scales, sometimes confluent, inconspicuous when the 

 Imiid is uniformly dark; inwardly the base of the wing is filled with a mixture of 

 black, l)rown, dark orange, white and roseate pearly scales, forming irregular, dark 

 and roseate patches ; outwardly the band is bordered by another much narrower but 

 consitlerable band of dark fulvous and pale roseate scales, the latter predominating, 

 giving it a gray appearance; its outer limit is marked by an extremely zigzag, some- 

 times slender, sometimes conspicuous line of black scales, most conspicuous and ex- 

 tending nearest the border in the median interspaces, in each of which it forms a a- 



