986 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLANH). 



the distance from the base of the llrst iiervnle to the apex of the cell, in the male; 

 third arising less than midway from the tip of the cell to the apex of the wing in both 

 sexes. Either dark chocolate brown, with a slight olivaceous tinge, the basal three- 

 fifths, excepting the costal and inner margins, tinged with bright, rosy violet, deepest 

 next the base, best seen by reflected light, the separation between the bright and dark 

 colors being very vague, passing midway between the apex of the cell and the outer 

 border above, farther inward below, the veins dark brown {$); or, dark gray 

 brown, the outer margin narrowly bordered with a sliglitly darker tint (?); cos- 

 tal edge very dull orange ; a small, black spot just beyond the middle of the basal two- 

 thirds of the cell, in the female only; a small, black spot in the middle of the outer 

 two-thirds of the cell ; another similar one directly beneath it, in the medio-subme- 

 dian interspace ; another, larger, transverse spot bordering the extremity of the cell ; 

 in the female only, a transverse, bent series of seven similar spots, just beyond the 

 middle of the wing, the upper four, above the median nervure, in a nearly straight 

 line directed downward and a little outward from the costal border at two-thirds the 

 distance from the base; the lower of these four is situated a very little less than half 

 way from the apex of the cell to the outer margin ; the lower three spots, in the 

 median and medio-submedian interspaces, are arranged in a nearly straight line, sub- 

 parallel to the outer border, directed toward the middle of the upper series, and 

 about at right angles to the inner border ; outer margin narrowly and vaguely edged 

 ■with dark greenish brown ; basal half of fringe of about the same color, apical half 

 pallid. Outer margin of hind wings uniform and continuous, the wings themselves 

 either dark chocolate brown, the middle of the basal two-thirds tinged, more faintly 

 than on the fore wings, with violet ($), or dark gray brown ( ? ) ; a blackish dot in 

 the middle of the outer half of the cell, in the female, a similar one just above and 

 just below it in the neighboring iutersp.aces ; the termination of the cell marked by an 

 obscure blackish streak; an e.xtra-mesial series of seven .small, obscure, blackish spots 

 (in the male usu.ally partially obsolete), that in the costo-subcostal interspace situated 

 midway between the inner spot of the female and the outer border; the next, outside 

 of it, just before the middle of the upper subcostal interspace; those in the next two 

 interspaces, midway between the apex of the cell and the outer margin, those in the 

 three succeeding interspaces in a slight curve opening Inward, the middle one just 

 beyond the centre of the lower median interspace; a submarginal, crenate streak of 

 orange starts from the very tip of the inner margin, where it is broad, and passes in a 

 series of linear lunules, just keeping free of the outer margin and decreasing in size 

 gradually, to the lower or even the middle subcostal nervule; it often reaches no 

 further than the upper median nervule, and sometimes is mostly confined to an orange 

 spot at the extreme tip of the inner angle; outer margin narrowly and vaguely lined 

 with blackish, the basal third of the fringe very dark; beyond, paler than the same 

 part of the fore wings. 



Beneath, dull, greenish, pale straw yellow, a little brighter along the outer border, 

 and deepening to orange along the costal edge of the fore wings. Fore icings ; all the 

 black markings of the upper surface of either sex are repeated in each sex beneath, 

 and, in addition, a spot in the medio-submedian interspace, beneath the basal spot of the 

 cell, and a submarginal row of pretty large, blurred, dusky spots on the lower half of the 

 wing, distant an interspace's width from the outer border, sometimes obscurely edged 

 outwardly with orange ; fringe of the color of the under surface. Hind wings with 

 two nearly straight but slightly curving rows of three black, dot-like spots, each in 

 the basal half of the wing, the middle spot of each situated in the cell at a little 

 beyond the middle, one of the basal, the other of the apical two-thirds, the upper 

 spots in tlie costo-subcostal, the lower in the medio-submedian interspaces, the latter 

 at equal distances on either side of the first divarication of the median nervure; the 

 tip of the cell is faintly marked with a fuscous line; there is a slightly irregular, 

 bent, extra-mesial series of eight black, dot-like spots; the upper four, above the 

 median nervure, in a nearly straight line (the third just outside of it), that in the 

 costo-subcostal interspace being removed outward from the first subcostal divari- 



