934 llli: UUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



ing any trace of ^^ubnmrguial spots ; the latter feature is the more reinarkal)le since 

 tlic same part of tlie unOer snrface is quite lieavily inarljeil; on tlie under surface the 

 extra-mesial series of spots, in l)oth the fore and hind wings, is removed outwards 

 aud has become confluent witli the submarginal series of bent Ijars, maliing the marli- 

 ings of tlie outer border unusually heavy, while the spear-shaped markings of the 

 submarginal row are retained, intensified, particularly on the hind wings; in the fore 

 wings the spot of the next to the lower subcostal interspace is retained independent of 

 the outer markings, although removed far toward the border; at the base of the hiud 

 wings, the lower sjiot is absent, while the spots of the costo-subcostal interspace aud of 

 the cell are enlarged and deepened in tint, aud are perhaps a very little nearer the base 

 than usual; the apex of the cell is only marked by a slender, pale fuscons streak, so 

 that the centre of the hind wings, instead of being heavily blotched and infuscated, is 

 almost entirely of the pale ash gray of the basal color of the wing, while the mar- 

 ginal markings are broadened, and on their inner margin deepened in tint, presenting 

 an appearance in marked contrast to the normal type of lucia. The upper surface, 

 however, leaves no doubt to which of the forms of the species we should refer this 

 aberrant individual. A very similar specimen, but with the disc of the hind wings 

 beneath heavily infuscated, is figured by Edwards (Butt. N. Amer., ii. Lye. ii, tig. 25). 



A ratlier curious $ si)ecinieu, showing an e.Kceediugly early stage of sufl'usion in the 

 same direction as the last, was taken by Mr. F. H. Spraguc, in Wollaston, Mass., on 

 May 10. The only way in wliich it difi'ers from the ordinary females in which the sub- 

 raeslal transverse band is distinct, is in the running together of the costo-subcostal 

 spots of this series (which are here nearer the base than usual, being in direct and 

 straight continuation of the dusky streak closing the cell) with the same spots of the 

 basal series, forming in tlie costo-subcostal interspace a striking, dumb-bell shaped 

 bar. whose outer extremity is counected beueatli with a continuous, slenderer, curved 

 streak, formed of tlie discal streak and the lower spots of the subniesial series; and 

 together forming a capit.al cursive T (jf) upon one side and its reverse on the other. 



Hermaphrodites. Edwards has figured (Butt. N. Amer., ii, pi. Lye. ii, fig. 23) a 

 specimen taken at Coalburgh, W. Va. , in which the left wings with the body have 

 male characteristics, while the wiugs of the right side are colored as In the female. 

 Mr. Edwards says "it was a male, as appeared on exposing the genital organs." The 

 specimen is now in tlie collection of Dr. W. J. Holland, and as no such enquiry had ever 

 before been made, I asked him to examine the scales of the male side, to see whether 

 androconia would be found. He removed about one hundred aud fifty scales from this 

 side, and sent me sketches of the difterent forms aud their relative abundance ; among 

 them was just one of the androconia; so that in this strange hermaphrodite the male 

 side preserves even such microscopic features as the androconia. He also examined 

 the opposite wing, without finding any androconia. 



Accessory sexual peculiarities. Besides the difl'erence in the coloring of the 

 wings, described on the preceding pages, the male is peculiar for the androconia which 

 are scattered, apparently without definite position, over the upper surface of the 

 wings. These (46 : 30) have slightly divergent sides, so that the regularly convex 

 apex is nearly half as broad again as the sloping base ; they are slightly longer than 

 broad and furnished with aliout ten parallel rows of exceptionally large, bead-like 

 spots, which are confluent in the basal half of each row ; the stem tapers throughout, 

 is almost half as long as the lamina ami gradually expands to it. The extreme breadth 

 of the Lamina is about .0075 mm., tliese being much smaller than the ordinary scales. 



Egg (65 : 14, 15, 18). Surface covered uniformly, both above and on the sides, with 

 raised rounded points averaging .042 mm. in distance apart, not placed in regular 

 rows ; these are connected by fine laminate ridges and similar septa divide the angle 

 between two adjacent ones; M'here these secondary ridges converge, there is another 

 elevation, lower than the principal oue, ordinarily quadrate in form, with the angles 

 produced, sometimes triangular or pent.agoual. The micropyle (68 : fi) consists of 

 about a dozen snbequal, sul)circular, polygonal cells arranged around a central point, 

 witli distinct though excessively delicate walls, and is situateil at the bottom of a very 



