932 TIIK HUTTERFLIKS OK NEW ENGLAND. 



lumiles or lines, outside of wliicli tlic wliole wing is often batlied to a very sliglit or 

 sometimes even a considerable extent with brownish fuscous. Fringe silvery white, 

 often marked to a sliglit degree with fuscous on the basal half and interrupted 

 Hl)ruptly, usually very narrowly, sometimes ratlicr broadly, with brownish fuscous at 

 tlie nervure tips. 



Beneath (in the form lucia) uniform pale ash gray, witli a faint, pale bluisli tinge. 

 Fore wings with the apex of the cell marked by a moderately broad, equal, transverse, 

 dark fuscous streak ; middle of the outer two-tlfths of the wing with a transverse, 

 considerarably curving series of six dark or blackish fuscous, short, moderately 

 broad bars, sometimes very faintly and narrowly edged with pale; all but the upper 

 one are arranged in a curving or nearly straight row, subparallel to the outer border 

 while the uppermost, in the next to the lowest subcostal interspace, is removed in- 

 wards from the line usually by a little more than its own length; all of the bars are 

 sometimes transverse, but those in the subcosto-meilian and upper, and sometimes the 

 lower median interspaces, are frequently diagonal, directed from above downwai'd 

 and outward ; outer Iwrder edged with a tliread of blackish fuscous, often obscured 

 above, followed by an obscure, submarginal series of small, dark fuscous spots in the 

 interspaces, followed at an equal distance by an obscure, dark fuscous series of con- 

 tinuous, strongly curved, transverse bars, between which and the outer border the 

 nervules are frequently infuscated, and the whole margin of the wing is usually 

 washed in a dull, obscure, fuscous tinge. Fringe generally pale along the extreme 

 base, beyond grayish fuscous or whitish, interrupted rather narrowly and abruptly 

 with blackish or blackish fuscous at the nervure tips. Hind ivings with a basal series 

 of tliree not very large, round sjjots, faintly edged with pale, one black one in the 

 subcostal interspace, one black or dark fuscous one in the middle of the lower half of 

 the cell, and a tliird black one in the internal interspace, the latter situated at the 

 middle of tlie basal half of the inner border, arranged in relation to the extra-mesial 

 band, as in violacea; the tip of the cell is marked by a transverse, moderately slen- 

 der, equal, fuscous streak ; beyond this is an extra-mesial, transverse series of black- 

 ish or blackish fuscous, quadrate spots, narrowly and indistinctly edged with pale, 

 arranged quite as in violacea, but with those in the two parts of the series almost or 

 quite continuous, when the markings are otherwise distinct; but usually all the mark- 

 ings in tlie middle of the wing are blurred and run together to a considerable extent, 

 so as in extreme, but not uncommon examples to present a grayish fuscous, large, 

 irregular, central, subtriangular patch, bounded externally by the outer limits of the 

 extra-mesial spots, above by a line connecting the middle of the lower border of the 

 cell and the lower subcostal nervule, with projections extending toward the two 

 costo-subcostal spots, and below by a line connecting the middle of the lower border 

 of the cell and the submedian nervure where the extra-mesial band crosses it ; the 

 outer border of the wing is broadly bathed, usually to a considerable extent, though 

 sometimes but little, with dark grayish fuscous, bounded interiorly by a zigzag line, 

 formed by a series of strongly bent, narrow bars in each interspace, darker than the 

 rest of the outer border in specimens where the outer border is not pretty grimy, and 

 reaching, in the middle of the interspaces, to the distance of one and one-half inter- 

 space widths from the outer border; within this, even in the darkest specimens, may 

 be seen a submarginal row of rather small, blackish, round spots, and a blackish 

 thread edging the border. Fringe white, in the lower two-thirds of the wing often 

 more or less gray, by an admixture of fuscous, and throughout interrupted abruptly 

 and rather broadly at the nervure tips with dark fuscous. 



Abdomen above black or blackish brown, sides profusely covered with blue scales, 

 particularly below, under surface white, often with a yellowish or bluish tinge. Male 

 abdominal ;ippendages (34 : 33, 34) : upper organ furnished outside posteriorly with a 

 bulbous, subtriangular lobe, bearing at its inner extremity a short, pointed, inward 

 directed thorn ; clasps with tlie bulbous base rather large, the thorn a little curved and 

 fnlly one-fourth as long again as the base. 



