1106 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



male; /ore jcings witli the extreme base, especially next the inner border, heavily 

 begrimed witli blackish griseous scales; costal edge distinctly briglit pink, and the 

 costal border sometimes slightly flecked with griseous, generally most abundant next 

 the extreme edge ; the extremity of the cell is marked by a slight, obscure fuscous, 

 round-ovate, narrow dash, inconspicuous and usually even obsolete in the (J , in the 

 female sometimes enclosing a very pale orange nucleus; the outer border is margined 

 with blackisli brown ( (J ) , or blackish griseous ( ? ) ; the nervures which cross it are 

 almost always delicately traced in yellow, close to but not reaching the outer border in 

 the male, where the bordering is moderately broad, its interior edge pretty well de- 

 fined, slenderly crenulate, pretty regularly curved on the lower three-fifths of the 

 wing, where it is subparallel to the outer boriler, varying in widtli in different indi- 

 viduals, from a half to a whole interspace; it has a slight enlargement in the medio- 

 submedian interspace, and at the inner margin sends a slender shoot for a short, 

 sometimes a very short, distance baseward ; al)ove tlie suljcosto-median interspace it 

 curves considerably and regularly inwards, and terminates on the costal margin, above 

 a point midway between the tip of the cell and the inner margin of the band ; the 

 whole border is sometimes very slightly flecked with yellowish scales. In the 

 female the position of the upper part of the border is much the same, but its 

 inner limit is ill-defined and powdery, the lighter scales showing a tendency to collect 

 in small, longitudinally ovate dashes in the interspaces; in the middle of the wing the 

 griseous scales run baseward along the nervules, and tlie brighter scales cluster in the 

 interspaces, so that tlie inner limit is sometimes sharply serrate ; in all but rare cases it 

 fades out altogether in the medio-submedian interspace, and never extends along the 

 inner margin. Fringe uniform bright pink, below the middle of tlie medio-submedian in- 

 terspace yellowish. Hind wings with the extreme base, especially along the median ner- 

 vure, but rarely more than a quarter the distance to its first divarication, rather heavily 

 begrimed with blackish griseous scales ; the rest of the wing also sometimes faintly and 

 very sparsely fiecked with griseous in the ? . below the median neri^ure; on the upper 

 half of the vein closing the cell a roundish, pale orange spot, almost never at all con- 

 spicuous, and sometimes almost completely obsolete, larger in the female than in the 

 male, and sometimes very large; outer border of the ^ margined as in the fore wing, 

 having a well defined, pretty regular inner border, sometimes slightly stepped; at its 

 broadest in the lower subcostal interspace, the band scarcely equals tlie narrowest 

 part of the band of the fore wings; it tapers at either end, more rapidly above than 

 below, and extends from beyond the middle of the costo-subcostal interspace to the 

 upper extremity or middle of the lower median interspace. In the ? it is ill-defined, 

 sometimes entirely absent, at others shows itself only by a narrow flecking of the sub- 

 costal nervules, at others with a broader flecking, expanding apically, so as to run 

 together at the margin. The fringe is briglit pink, more or less broadly and faintly 

 interrupted in the upper third of the outer border witli whitish. 



Beneath fore wings greenish sulphur yellow, a little paler next the inner margin ; 

 the costal margin, as far as the upper limit of the cell, and in the female the apex of 

 the wing, rather lieavily flecked with griseous ; the apex of the cell marked by a dis- 

 tinct, transverse, oval or linear, pale streak or spot, tinged with orange, edged 

 throughout, generally rather narrowly, sometimes, especially in female, very broadly, 

 usually more broadly below than above, with blackish fuscous, extending from the 

 subcostal, almost and sometimes quite to the median nervules. Fringe dark pink at 

 extreme base, pointed with pink or fuscous at the nervures and creases, beyond paler 

 pink, below the submedian as above. Hind wings slightly less clear yellow than the 

 fore wings, sparsely (<J) or considerably ($) fiecked with greenish griseous scales, 

 which are less abundant in a broad, marginal baud of one and one-half interspaces in 

 width, sometimes widening in the middle of the wing; in the female tliey are occa- 

 sionally so abundant as to give a decided greenish griseous tinge to the wing; the cos- 

 tal edge is pink, and at the extremity of the costal ncrvure there is sometimes a slight 

 cluster of reddish brown or fuscous scales ; the tip of the cell is marked by a small, 

 circular silvery white spot, larger in the ? than in the J , in the outer part of which, 



