1290 - THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



half, ami reaches from the costal border to tlie upper median nervule; beyond this, at 

 the last divarication of the subcostal nervure, is anotlier smaller, narrowing band^ 

 made up of ill defined, irregular, continent spots, extending across the subcostal inter 

 spaces ; the outer border is covered by a broad black band, as broad as two interspaces, 

 its interior border pretty well defined and almost perfectly straight, occasionally arched 

 in eacli interspace; this band includes a series of eight or nine submarginal, trans- 

 versely oval, rather large yellow spots, iu the middle of the outer three-fifths of the 

 band ; and, occasionally, a broad, indistinct, powdery band of very scattered yellow 

 scales, midway between these and tlie interior border of the black band ; fringe black- 

 ish, interrupted in the interspaces, usually on the outer half only, witli an equal breadth 

 of yellow. Base of the hind wings and the inner border marked Ijy a continuous black 

 stripe, extending over fully three-fourtlis of the inner border, as broad as the base of 

 the middle median interspace, its exterior border with intersprinkled black and yellow 

 scales, the edge of the inner border yellow ; a straight, gradually narrowing, black stripe, 

 its borders fiecked with yellow scales, extending from the costal border midway be- 

 tween the base of the wing and the interior edge of the black outer border, and ter- 

 minating at the middle of the lowest median nervule, where it is joined by an oblique 

 spur, emitted from the termination of tlie internal stripe ; cell narrowly bordered within 

 ■with black between the second and third subcostal nervules and sometimes next a 

 portion of the adjoining interspaces; outer margin very broadly bordered with blacky 

 the inner margin of the border starthig at the costal edge, in direct continuation 

 of that of the fore wings and directed toward a point a very little within the termina- 

 tion of the lower median nervule, but curving around, subparallel to the outer border, 

 when it has reached the median nervules, and terminating a little below the extremity 

 of the internal stripe, confused in its passage over the median interspaces by an ex- 

 ceedingly broad and nearly equal intermingling of black and yellow scales, which fol- 

 low the nervules to a still greater distance ; there is a submarginal row of four very 

 large and conspicuous yellow lunules from the upper subcostal to the upper median 

 interspaces, the outer limb of the lowest curving downward toward the tail; in the 

 interspace on either side of these is a much smaller submarginal orange lunule, occa- 

 sionally nearly obsolete, and next the excision of the inner border is a large, marginal, 

 orange lunule ; above the latter, midway between it and the yellow, is a strongly arched, 

 not very conspicuous lunule of scattered nacreous blue scales; and sometimes, espe- 

 cially in the female, a similar or even much more extensive sprinkling of blue scales 

 is placed midway between the submarginal lunules and the yellow main color of the 

 other interspaces; fringe yellow, interrupted pretty broadly with black at the nervure 

 tips, the terminal third of the inner side of the tail and the terminal three-quarters 

 of the outer side, black. 



Beneath pale, faded, straw yellow, the markings of the upper surface, excepting of 

 the borders, repeated; outer three-fifths of costal margin of fore wings gray, with 

 mingled brown and yellow scales ; outer margin with three parallel black stripes of 

 nearly equal breadth, the marginal one broadest, the inner one next in breadth, its 

 interior border corresponding to the interior border of the marginal band of the upper 

 surface ; and the smallest lying midway between the two ; the space between the outer 

 two bands yellow like the ground; between the inner two, gray with equally mingled 

 yellow and black scales ; below the median nervures the black stripes coalesce. Hind 

 wings with a transverse, pretty regularly curving, straiglit or wavy, black band, its in. 

 terior border, in the median and subcostal interspaces, lying a little outside of the 

 same band on the upper surface ; it is of the width of the marginal stripe of the fore 

 wings, but broadens on the lower half of the wing; inside of this band, there is some- 

 times a flush of reddish orange in the median interspaces and the second and third 

 median nervules are sprinkled with mingled yellow and black scales ; the band is nar- 

 rowly and delicately bordered on the outside witli bluish hoary scales, forming 

 lunules on the lowest two interspaces ; the marginal and submarginal lunules of the 

 upper surface are repeated beneath, the paler ones often tinged with orange in the 

 middle; between these and the line of bluish scales, the wing is black, profusely pow- 



