1112 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENCLAND. 



darker above than the stalk and is almost wholly naked beneath; its apical two 

 joints are wholly naked and dnll, often dusky hiteons, in life more yellowish. Tongue 

 pale on its liasal fonrtli, the remainder brownish fuseous, a little paler at tip. 



I'rotliorax covered with pink or salmon colored scales and liairs, becomins; generally 

 very dark lirown at the base. Thorax lilack covered al)0ve with rather dark arfciiisli 

 yellow hairs, the inner edges of tiicpatagia and to a greater or less extent the front of 

 the thorax between them with pinkish hairs ; beneath with uniform greenish yellow hairs. 

 Legs beneath and inside yellow, the rest pink, very deep on the femora but becoming 

 paler all the way toward the claws, the coxae often slightly tinged with pink, and the 

 tips of the femora more or less annulate with the same; spines dingy pallid, spurs the 

 same, their apical third niucli infuscated ; claws very pale pinkish, almost pellucid at base. 



Wings above rather pale greenish yellow, of the same tint in both sexes; outer 

 border of fore wings curved slightly throughout. Fore wings with tlie tip of the cell 

 marked by a transversely oval black spot, which touches the lowest subcostal nervule 

 above and just fails of reaching the median nervule below; costal edge dark pink; 

 costal border more or less begrimed with blackish scales as far as the costal nervure 

 in the J, but in the ? as far as one-third the way, across the cell; the extreme base 

 of the wing similarly begrimed below and in the $ sometimes extending half as far as 

 the first divarication of the median nervure, generally most extended along the inner 

 margin; outer border bordered with lilackish brown, generally faintly and slightly 

 flecked with yellow scales, some of the veins iu the ? , especially those on the upper half 

 of the wing and on the interior half of the margin, marked delicately with yellow. In 

 the ^ tlie marginal band has a distinct interior border, generally slightly and often irreg- 

 ularly crenulate, but least so in the middle of the wing ; it varies in width in the middle of 

 the wing from one-half to oue and one-half interspaces' breadth, but is usually aliout an 

 interspace; the interior border ruus from the costal margin at about the tip of the first 

 superior subcostal nervule in a regular and considerable arc to the subcosto-median inter- 

 space; below this rnns parallel to the outer border as far as the submedian nervure and 

 then turns inward to a greater or less extent toward the base, sometimes extending even 

 to the middle of the inner border; in the ? it is much broader, sometimes reaching the 

 widtli of two interspaces, its interior border ill-defined and irregular, but it has a general 

 direction as if made up of two lines bent at the npper median nervule, tlic lower parallel 

 to tlie outer border and scarcely turned toward the base beneath, the upper atan angle of 

 about 135° with it ; it encloses a transverse series of ill-deflned, roundish or slightly longi- 

 tudinal, yellowish spots, parallel to the outer border on the lower two-thirds of the wing 

 and nearer the interior than the exterior margin, in rare cases almost wholly olaliterated, 

 especially below, and in some instances breaking up the interior margin altogether ; no 

 or only a very faint spot is present in the upper median interspace ; on the upper part 

 of the wing it curves inwards subparallel to the interior border of the band and gen- 

 erally more distinct than elsewhere; infrequently all the spots are inconspicuous. 

 Fringe pink, yellowish at the lower outer angle and flecked more or less with yellow 

 the next base throughout. Sind wings having the central spots of the under surface 

 ajjpearing above with a pale orange, occasionally yellowisli hue ; the outer border is 

 margined with black; iu the $ it forms a connected band like that of the fore vvings, 

 but narrower, broadest in the lower subcostal interspace, but there scarcely ever equal- 

 ling the width of more than an interspace and often not so much as half an interspace; it 

 tapers toward either extremity, more rapidly above than below, extending from at or a lit- 

 tle beyond the tip of the costal nervure to the middle of the medio-submedian interspace, 

 or sometimes only to the lower median nervule ; the inner border is sharply defined, 

 sometimes irregular luit usually only to a slight degree and scarcely crenulate; the ner- 

 vures are often delicately traced with yellow on tlie interior half of the band. In the $ 

 the band is seldom, though occasionally, formed with the same continuity as in the $ , but 

 with a more or less blurred interior limit, and the nervules, instead of being traced partly 

 across the band in yellow, are marked and edged with griseous, forming usually the dark- 

 est part of the band and extending beyond its limits nearly as far again toward the base ; 

 usually the band is greatly broken and conspicuous oidy by these dark edged nervules, 

 which with the scales which cluster around them often form a series of triangular spots 



