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THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



*; of the stem broadly .-inmilated witli white, tiiised witli yellowish so as sometimes to 

 f occupy tlie whole basal half of the joint, particularly on the basal half; club black- 

 ish, two or three apical joints e.xceptin-; the last whitish above, the whole of the 

 extreme under surface whitish. Tonfrue luteo-testaceous, a little infuscated laterally. 



Thorax covered above with very long, silvery gray, profuse hairs, tinged more or 

 less, and especially on the wing covers, with bluish; below gray with blackish and 

 whitish scales and covered with rather long, brownish yellow hairs. Legs dull silvery 

 gray, more or less marked minutely with blackish, the tibiae and tarsi more or less dis- 

 colored above, the basal half of all but the basal joints of the latter blackish brown 

 above. Spurs rcddisli at tip ; spines blackish ; claws reddish brown. 



Wings bright lustrous, somewhat greenish violet, the veins with a hoary aspect; the 

 costal Ijorder of fore wings very narrowly, especially at base, the outer border of 

 botli wings narrowly edged with black or blackish brown (<?) ; or of a darker more 

 purplish violet, broadly bordered on the costal and outer margin with blackish brown, 

 and having the tip of the cell marked iu the fore wings by a narrow transverse black- 

 ish streak and the outer margin of both wings narrowly edged with blackish (?). 

 Costal edge of fore wings pale gray ; inner border of hind wings pale. Fringe brown- 

 ish fuscous on the basal, pale on the apical half. 



Bcncatli uniform pale slate brown, almost wholly lustreless; the outer extremity of 

 the cell is marked by a slender, transverse, bent, black streak, edged with white. Fore 

 iciiujs with a transverse row of six roundish black spots encircled with whitish, each 

 occupying the width of an interspace, crossing the middle of the outer third of the 

 wing, the lowermcst spot, iu the medio-submedian interspace, double; excepting the 

 lowermost, which is just beneath the one above it, they are arranged in a curving row, 

 the convexity outward, the outermost removed by its own width from a line connect- 

 ing the extremes; the outer border is narrowly edged with a double bordering, the 

 outer half dark brown, the inner lialf pale. Fringe brown, pale at extreme tip. Hirid 

 wings with a moderately small black spot encircled with white in the costo-subcostal 

 interspace, just within the first divarication of the subcostal, and a smaller similar 

 spot in tlie middle of the lower half of the cell; in the middle of the outer two-fifths 

 of the wing there is a transverse tortuous row of eiglit roundish black spots encircled 

 with white, that in the medio-submedian interspace double, that in the upper subcos- 

 tal sometimes absent, nearly uniform in size, each occupying, with its border, from 

 one-half to the whole of the width of an interspace, usually rather smaller than the 

 corresponding spots on the fore wings ; that in the upper subcostal interspace is sit- 

 uated in the middle of its interspace ; that in the costo-subcostal is removed inwards 

 by nearly its own width; the others form two similar and regular curves, the lower 

 median forming a portion of either, the lowtr subcostal, lower median and submedio- 

 internnl b^nng in one line, the others in another removed farther outward by nearly 

 tlieir own width ; that in the lower median interspace is exactly beneath the middle of 

 the middle median nervule ; the outer margin and fringe are exactly as in the fore wing. 



Abdomen above very dark brown with frequent long pale hairs and on the sides, 

 and particularly at the tip of the abdominal joints, frequent pale scales; beneath very 

 pale yellowish. Upper organ of male appendages (34:30, 31) with the apex of the 

 lunate lateral alations roundly angled, the lateral arms rather short, roundly bent in 

 the middle and tapering throughout. Clasps extending rather beyond the upper 

 organ, viewed from tlie side somewhat bullate at base, tapering rapidly in the middle 

 and produced to a .slender tip; but seen from beneath they are depressed, equal 

 througliout, and bear at the outer angle an acicular spine which lies along the trun- 

 cate apex and is scarcely so long as the breadth of the same. 



