836 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



in the male, the projection of the mkUllc median ncrvnle exceedingly slight, that of 

 the lower median nervule distinct. 



Beneath; /ore wings lighter or darlicr grayisli tawny brown, made up of a mix. 

 ture of tawny, very i)ale greenish and dark violaceous brown scales, tlie last 

 predominating next the base, the first upon the apical lialf, the pale scales mainly 

 scattered among the tawny ones ; below tlie median nervnre it is duller colored ; 

 there is sometimes a faint dusky bar at the extremity of the discoidal cell; about 

 tvvo-Ofths the distance from this bar to the outer border, subparallel to the latter, 

 and extending over the brighter part of the wing is a narrow, transverse, irregu- 

 lar, white and black stripe (the inner side black, the outer white), which is some- 

 times continuous, but below the tipper median nervule is usually broken into short 

 streaks, each crossing an interspace, and placed alternately a little within and a little 

 without the geiier.al direction of the stripe; there is a narrow marginal, deeper cinna- 

 mon tawny baud, occasionally made hoary by abundant pearly scales, often enclosing 

 small, darker spots or longitudinal streaks in the interspaces, followed by a slender, 

 indistinct line of paler scales, and again by a Ijand similar to the marginal band, but 

 narrower, not so dark, and surmounted in each interspace by a small, often obsolete 

 and usually indistinct, blackish, sagittate spot; fringe white, interrupted broadly at the 

 nervure tips with black, edged at the extreme base with bluish black scales. Sind 

 icings witli a very broad, nearly uniform, very dark reddish brown band in the basal 

 half of the wing, composed of very dark purplish brown, ferrugiuous and violaceous, 

 or pearly, or even occasionally bright green scales, the first predominating; tlie inte- 

 rior edge of the band is always inconspicuous and frequently obliterated ; when pres- 

 ent, it is indicated bj' the slightly paler base and occasionall.y l)y a line of darker 

 scales, sometimes parti.ally lined with whitish ; it starts from the inner border, mid- 

 way between the exterior edge of tlie baud and the base of the wing, and extends in a 

 line parallel to the border as far as the median nervure, where it beuds at right angles, 

 and terminates on the costal margin : the exterior limit of the band is more irregular, 

 but preserves the same general direction ; it is marked by a narrow edging of white 

 scales, which is sometimes wholly or partially obsolete, especially in the middle por- 

 tion, and sometimes is preceded inconspicuously by a slender line of black scales; it 

 starts from the costal border at about threc-tifths tlie distance from the base of the 

 wing, crosses the first interspace at right angles to the border, and is almost always 

 bordered more conspicuously with white at this point ; here it is broken and crosses 

 the upper subcostal interspace in the same direction, but farther removed from tlie 

 base of the wing by about the width of an interspace at this point ; the succeeding 

 interspace is crossed in continuation of the primary course of the band and the line 

 is then usually bent at an angle, with a straight course, but sometimes curved or even 

 bent toward the tip of the lowest median nervule, where it reaches its greatest out- 

 ward extension in crossing at right angles the upper median interspace at about three- 

 fifths tlie distance from the base of the wing; from here it passes toward the inner 

 border over the two succeeding interspaces, usually in a scries of descending steps; 

 and then by a slight outward curve reaches the inner border a little before the tip of 

 the abdomen. Beyond this is a paler band, as broad as the interspaces, made up of a 

 mixture of pale slate and tawny scales, the portion on the lower half of the wing 

 usually more or less brightened by an admixture of white scales ; the outer border of 

 this baud, especially on the upper half of the wing, is ill-defined, but when most dis- 

 tinct consists of a row of blackish or dark reddish brown zigzags in each interspace, 

 sometimes reduced to a series of spots or dots, subparallel to the outer margin of the 

 wing; th.at in the interspace next the inner margin consists of an oblique dash edging 

 the upper portion of the angular excision on the inner margin of the wing and is met 

 by a similar one edging the lower portion of the same, and which is limited exteriorly 

 bove by a few long white scales. Beyond this b.and the wing is dark reddish brown, 

 made up of dark tawny scales, frequently with a few intermingled green ones, and 

 obscured and rendered hoary by cloudy, scattered pearly scales, which are almost 

 confined to the lower two-thirds of the wing, but are usually absent from a small spot 



