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THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



basal half of the wing two straight series of very small, roundish black spots, the 

 inner consisting of one in the costo-subcostal interspace very near the base, the second 

 of one just beyond the middle of the basal half of the cell, and a third, when present, 

 of a dot in the raedio-submedian interspace, as far removed from tlie base as the width 

 of the middle of the cell; the second row consists of slightly larger spots, in the same 

 interspaces, that in tlie cell placed just within the middle of the outer half of the same, 

 and the lower spot twice as far from the base of the wing as the width of the middle 

 of the cell ; as on the upper surface, the extremity of the cell is indistinctly marked by 

 a narrow, blackish stripe. Crossing the middle of tlie outer half of the wing is an 

 irregularly sinuous series of eight small, transverse or roundish, black spots, faintly 

 bordered externally, excepting generally the upper two, with pale scales; the upper 

 two, in the interspaces next the costal border, are placed one aljove the other at right 

 angles to the border, the upper in the costo-subcostal interspace, as far removed from 

 the outer spot of the two ah-eady mentioned in the same interspace, as they are from 

 each other; the next three spots form the arc of a small circle opening inward, whose 

 opposite side would strike near the extremity of the cell, that in the subcosto-median 

 interspace being situated half-way between the extremity of the cell and the outer 

 border; the other spots form, with the fifth, an arc of a larger circle opening inwards, 

 whose opposite side would reach nearly or quite to the inner spot of the cell ; the in- 

 terior edge of the sixth spot is at the distance of two interspaces from the outer 

 border; that of the medio-submedian interspace is doujble, being broken by the ground 

 color of tVe wing, but its upper portion, together with the first, second and sixth 

 spots, are the largest in the series; a wavy, submarginal line of very bright, deep 

 orange or brick red starts from the tip or the submedian nervure, forming, in the in- 

 terspace below, small, apical spots of mingled red and gray scales ; it crosses the 

 extremity of the medio-submedian interspace in an arching line, which reaches nearly 

 half way to the black spots and then falls again to the tip of the lower median nervule ; 

 from here It passes to the middle or upper part of the lower subcostal interspace in a 

 series of similar but much slighter arches, one to each interspace, maintaining an 

 average distance of half an interspace from the outer border ; between this carmine 

 line and the fuscous interior margin of the outer bordering, the scales seem to be usu- 

 ally as light as in the centre of the wing ; fringe difiering from that of the upper sur- 

 face, as in the fore wings. 



Abdomen blic'.dsh above, dark grayish brown on the sides, whitish beneath, tinged 

 toward the tip with dirty pale buff. Male appendages (34 : 38) with the bsnt elon- 

 gated lateral alations compressed, cylindrical, equal throughout (not well represented 

 on the plate), rounded at tip, and somewhat swollen anterior to it, the distal half bent 

 abruptly downward and somewhat outward ; lateral arms tapering regularly to a fine 

 point, sickle-shaped, the curve nearly equal throughout. Clasps forming a tumid 

 subequal lamina three to four times as long as broad, broadest beyond the middle, 

 the apical third curving a little inward, roundly truncate at tip, the upper posterior 

 corner roundly angulate and slightly produced. 



Described from 27 ? , 17 5 . 

 Aberrations. H ii. fasclvta. (Lycaenaphlaeasvar. americanaabfasciataStreck., 

 Cat. Amer. Macrolep., 101 — 1878.) The Messrs. Faxon captured a pair of this species 

 in Newton, Mass., August 1, within a few minutes of each other (and therefore not un- 

 likely the progeny of one parent) , which are suffused in a slight degree and almost 

 exactly to the same extent; it affects only the row of spots in the middle of the outer 

 half of the wing, each of which, although perfectly distinct from the others, is ex- 



