878 THK BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLANTt. 



at the base of thr jialpi with brown scales; abroad, straight IkuuI just above the 

 tongue, connecting tliese two. Antennae l)ronze black, the joints of tlie stalk rather 

 broadly but irregularly annulated at the base with white; club velvety black above, 

 beneath snow white at base, beyond obscure blackisli brown, sometimes faintly suf- 

 fused with orange, the terminal four or Ave joints entirely orange both above and 

 below. Palpi white, the outside of the extreme tip of the basal joint, the upper surface, 

 the outside of the upper outer border (and sometimes the whole upper border), the 

 inside of the upper inner border and a few hairs of the outer fringe of middle joint 

 black or blackish brown; apical joint blackish brown, the apex and base and a few 

 scales along the lower edge white. Tongue pale luteous on basal third, beyond infus- 

 cated ; papillae (61 : 44) testaceous, equal, bluntly rounded at tip, with a slender, 

 acicular, apical spine half as long as the width of the papilla. 



Thorax above covered in front with dark brown, elsewhere with mouse brown or 

 sometimes grayish brown hairs, those of the patagia slightly tinged with greenish 

 gray, the anterior scales of prothoracic lobes often pale gray; beneath covered with 

 white hairs and scales, the latter mingled with grayish scales ou the sides; femora 

 white with white liairs beneath, the sides speckled somewhat with blackish brown ; 

 tibiae white, with a subapical, blackish brown, exterior patch and a similar obscure 

 one in the middle of the basal two-thirds ; a few dark scales are also scattered irregu- 

 larly ; tarsi black, the apices of all the joints and the sides and a medi.an annulation of 

 the basal joint white; beneath luteous ; spines black; claws luteo-fulvous. 



Wings above uniform blackish brown, the hind wings softer, all the wings, but 

 especially the front pair, with a very faint olivaceous retlection ; edged narrowly along 

 tlie outer border with blackish, which is itself margined interiorly with a line of snow 

 white scales on the lowest median and innermost interspaces of the hind wings; the 

 hind wings occasionally with an obscure, submarginal orange spot in the lower median 

 Interspace, sometimes followed in the succeeding interspaces by a few orange scales 

 and usually with the greater distinctness just above the anal angle; these orange 

 markings are always seated in the lower median and medio-subraedian interspaces 

 upon an obscure blackish spot which is present even when the orange markings are 

 obsolete ; fringe grayish brown on the fore wings and the upper part of the hind pair, 

 merging into blackish brown toward the anal angle, and in this darker portion enlivened 

 by a line of white, running through the middle; at the extreme anal .angle wholly white 

 in a narrow space; inner edge of secondaries with long, grayish brown hairs, just 

 above the orange spot in a minute space, white; tails black, tipped, and longer one 

 edged on the inner side, with white. Discal stigma of fore wings of male oblong obo- 

 vate, 1.8 mm. long, about twice as long as broad, at either extremity running in pro- 

 jecting teeth along the nervures, obscure, dark grayish fuscous. Superior subcostal 

 nervules of fore wings of female arising nearer the apex of the cell than in the other 

 species ; the main stem of same not slightly flexed beyond the last superior branch as 

 in the otlier species, but forming a very considerable angle with its previous course. 

 Outer margin of hind wings pretty regularly curved, below the longer tail a little 

 excised; the longer tail nearly half as long again as the width of an interspace, the 

 shorter one nearly as long as the width of an interspace. 



Beneath dark brown, fresh specimens, especially of the female, with a very delicate, 

 rufo-purplish slieen by reflection. Fore wings having the extremity of the cell marked 

 by a large, very broad, quadrate, slightly darker spot — in fresh specimens often 

 tinged with rufous — generally increasing in depth almost to black toward the outer 

 and inner edges and then lined with a row of bluish white scales ; the spot is nearly or 

 quite .as l)road as the body; outside of this is a very broad baud, only slightly nar- 

 rower tlian this spot, colored and bordered like it, but broken and the parts removed 

 successively inward to so great a distance at the uppermost and lowest median ner- 

 vules, as to give the wing the appearance of being covered with a meaningless, irreg- 

 ular scries of white stripes, wlience Harris's appropriate name. At the two points 

 mentioned, the outer white border of the lower portion of the band is nearly or ex- 

 actly continuous with the inner white edging of the upper fragment and the inner edg- 



