1018 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



the margin, leaving, liowever, a slender tliread of fulvous between them and the 

 dusky limit of the outer border, at least in the lower half of the wing; next the 

 inner limit of tlie fulvous area, as before described, small, brownish spots malie their 

 appearance in the lower median and medio-submedian interspaces, which in the 

 darijest specimens become merged in the darlv, inner area, so that finally the fulvous 

 area becomes nearly limited to a transversely oblong obovate patch, extending from 

 the middle of the lower subcostal to the middle of the medio-submedian interspaces 

 and occupying the middle half of the apical three-fifths of the wing. 



Every gradation between these two extremes occurs and can be found in a compara- 

 tively limited series of specimens and are present equally in the most northern and 

 southern localities. In all, the costal edge of the fore wings is dull fulvous, the 

 apices of the subcostal nervules impinging on the costal border are usually fulvous, 

 the narrow fringe is brownish fuscous on its basal half, whitish on the apical half, 

 abruptly interrupted with brownish fuscous at the nervure tips, narrowly on the upper, 

 very broadly, sometimes almost to the extinction of the white, excepting in the medio- 

 submedian interspace, on the lower half. Fringe of hind wings varying from dirty 

 white to grayish fuscous, tinged on the basal half with dull fulvous, interrupted at 

 the nervure tips rather broadly with Ijlacliish fuscous. 



Beneath ; fore wings dull, very pale orange, the basal half and apex of the costal 

 border, the whole outer border, but especially above, broadly bordered with deep, 

 dark yellowish brown; in the middle of the cell, at a little more than one-third and 

 two-thirds distance from the base are two darker, often fuscous spots, narrowly 

 rimmed with whitish ; the club-shaped spot of the upper surface is reproduced below 

 in fuscous, the basal half exp.anding to the median nervule with its centre; at the tip 

 of the cell is a pretty large, transverse, oval or quadrate spot, of dark yellowish 

 brown, edged narrowly within and without with whitish; directly below it, in the 

 lower median and medio-submedian interspaces, are two large, fuscous spots, the 

 upper generally longitudinally quadrate, filling the width of the interspace, the lower 

 sometimes obsolete, always smaller than the upper, variable in shape, usually with an 

 excision from the lower inner corner; occasionally there is a roundish, dot-like spot 

 at the base of the upper median interspace; a broad, subapical, transverse, nearly 

 equal, but a little irregular .and slightly curving band of dark yellowish brown passes 

 from the costal margin to the upper median nervule, its interior sinuous border nar- 

 rowly edged with white, distant from the spot at tip of cell by a little more than its 

 own width, its outer border usually edged obscurely, as far as the last subcost.il 

 nervule, with whitish, followed immediately by white-edged, yellowish brown lunules, 

 sometimes obsolete, and next the upper half of the band a dull, hoary, grayish patch 

 extending half way to the outer border, and enclosing at its outer limit, in the next to 

 the lowest subcostal interspace, a minute, round, yellowish brown spot, annulate 

 with whitish ; in the lower median and medio-submedian interspaces, or only in the 

 latter, are similar, slightly Larger spots, at a similar distance from the margin. 

 Fringe much as above. Hind wings deep, dark yellowish brown, the basal half, and 

 often to some extent the whole wing, glossed with a grayish liloom, excepting in fre- 

 quent, pretty large, roundish spots, encircled with white; there are two transverse, 

 curving rows of these spots within the middle of the wing, each having one spot in the 

 costo-subcostal interspace, the cell and the medio-submedian interspace, the fourth 

 spot of the inner row being in the internal, that of the outer in the submedio-internal 

 interspace; the outer row crosses the basal divarication of the median, and the inner 

 is midway between it and the base ; across the middle of the wing is a broad belt of 

 these spots, to a great degree confluent and confused, broadest and deepest in tint on 

 the upper half of the wing, its outer limit marked by a series of strongly curved, 

 whitish lines, one in each interspace, having a general, slightly curved direction, its 

 convexity inward below the middle of the subcosto-median interspace, above it sub- 

 parallel to the outer border ; on the outer half of the wing the yellowish brown is in- 

 fuscated above the middle subcostal nervule, but at the extreme upper outer angle, 

 beyond the limit of the mesial band, a small, sometimes obsolete, hoary grayish 



