1354 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



velvety black. Palpi black, the sides of the basal and middle joints and the upper 

 surface and tip of the terminal joint furnished with pale wliitish yellovr scales, not so 

 long as the black ones which fringe the front, but which are sometimes confined to tlie 

 basal joint. Tongue piceous. 



Thorax black above, the patagia black; a small, longitudinal, Ijright yellow spot 

 anteriorly, one on either side, just in front of the patagia, and just behind the sim- 

 ilarly colored spots of the head; beneath black. Coxae covered with velvety black 

 hairs ; legs all black, femora with short, fine black hairs ; tibiae and tarsi pliimbeo- 

 piceous ; extremity of fore and middle femora and basal half of same tibiae occa- 

 sionally with a few yellowish scales; foliate appendage of fore tibiae dark yellowish 

 brown ; spines blackish ; spurs and claws dark reddish brown. 



Wings above lustrous black, tinged almost imperceptibly with dark olivaceous. 

 Fore wings with a submarginal row of eight roundish, nearly equal, bright straw yel- 

 low spots, one in each principal interspace, from one-half to one-third as broad as the 

 interspace, distant from the border by a little more than half the width of an inter- 

 space (a little nearer on the lower portion of the wing), the lowermost double; paral- 

 lel to this, and about midway between it and the lower outer angle of the cell is a 

 transverse series of larger, similarly colored, wedge-shaped spots in the eight lower 

 interspaces, the uppermost usually broken, the inner edges powdery, either very con- 

 spicuous and usually growing larger downward ((J), or, less conspicuous and usually 

 growing smaller downward ( ? ) ; in the uppermost broad subcostal interspace there 

 is a yellow spot, often inconspicuous, midway between the furcation and the outer 

 limit of the spot in the succeeding interspace ; and the costal nervures above it are 

 occasionally streaked faintly with yellowish ; the outer limit of the cell is also marked 

 by a transverse patch of yellow scales crossing the whole of it, sometimes reduced to 

 a delicate, nearly indistinguishable powdering; the central third of the space between 

 the two transverse rows of spots is occasionally powdered delicately with bluish 

 scales, more conspicuously below than above, and sometimes confined to the median 

 interspaces; fringe black, interrupted rather broadly with slender yellow lunules in 

 all the interspaces, more broadly below than above, the medio-submedian interspace 

 with a double lunule. Hind winijs with two similar transverse rows of yellow spots 

 crossing the wing : the submarginal row composed of high, well-defined lunules, 

 nearly as broad as the interspaces, and distant from the margin by fully half the width 

 of an interspace, the innermost transverse, nearly linear, scarcely curved ; the mesial 

 row crosses the wing, either just beyond the extremity of the cell ( ? ), or, including 

 the extremity in the middle of the band ($) ; it is either broad and conspicuous, 

 forming a belt, interrupted only by the black nervures, and especially those of the 

 cell(^); or, formed of detached spots, not so conspicuous as the submarginal row 

 and often almost entirely wanting ( ? ) ; in the male the band is occasionally only a 

 little broader than the submarginal lunules, and is then limited to the outside of the 

 discoidal cell, but usually it is twice as broad, its interior border powdery, running 

 straight or nearly so from the costal border, three-flfths the distance from the base, to 

 the inner border at more than three-quarters the distance from the base ; when it is 

 confined to the parts outside of the cell, the border is of course farther removed from 

 the base and is also curved, not straight; the exterior border is better defined and 

 more irregular, composed, in the first two interspaces, starting from the costal bor- 

 der, of a bent line, whose general direction is parallel to the interior border, in the 

 next three interspaces of a more or less sharply zigzag line, the general efl'ect of which is 

 a slightly prominent arch, and beyond by a slightly curving line, subparallel to but 

 approaching the interior border; the space between these two cross-bands is filled, ex- 

 cepting always a stripe adjoining the bands, with a powdering of caerulean scales, 

 more profuse basally than apically, sometimes mingled with a few yellow scales 

 aplcally, either conspicuous and forming a continuous or nearly continuous belt (?), 

 or much less conspicuous, detached into spots and sometimes almost entirely wanting, 

 especially on the upper half of the wing ( <? ) ; at the anal angle is a pretty large, 

 nearly circular, reddish orange spot, its outer third or half pale yellowish, and having 



