1388 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



outc-r two-fifths of the costal margin, is a strongly arcuate series of five unequal, 

 similar, but small spots, its convexity outward, terminating at tlie middle of the outer 

 two-thirds of the upper median nervule; the upper three only are regularly present ; 

 the upper two are subequal, longitudinally quadrate, and in a line at right angles to 

 the costal margin ; tlie third is square and just below the exterior limits of the 

 others; the lower two are transverse, hour-glass shaped, the upper usually so much 

 constricted as to become double, and the more frequently absent. Fringe dusky, 

 darker than the ground color, at the nervure tips paler and tinged with dull yellowisli 

 brown elsewhere, and particularly on the apical half. Hind wings, witli the disc and 

 Inner margin, l)ut not the tail, very profnsely supplied with long hairs, varying in 

 different individuals from an olivaceous green to a pale bluish green, or a bright 

 metallic blue green, or a dull leaden green; other parts of the wing, and especially 

 the tail, inclined to blackish. Fringe very dark blackish brown, interrupted with pale, 

 generally dingy yellowish in broad lunules between the nervules, al)ove the lower 

 median nervnle. 



Beneath : fore wings of the same color as above, but with a slight olivaceous tinge, 

 and a little paler in tlie space enclosed between the median and subapical spots, all of 

 which are exactly repeated from the upper surface ; flecked very distantly and Incon- 

 spicuously with yellowish scales; outer border broadly margined, to the depth of 

 about an interspace, with a paler band of dark lilac-brown, generally palest interiorly 

 and broken by dusky nervures ; outer margin narrowly edged with black; fringe of 

 the color of the outer border, but palest interiorly, and interrupted rather broadly 

 and abruptly by blackish at the nervure tips. Hind wings pale grayish brown, with a 

 slight olivaceous tinge, and occasionally faintly tinted with lilac; crossed by broad, 

 nearly equal and parallel dark brown, almost blackish belts, and excepting on these, 

 flecked distantly but not inconspicuously with yellow scales ; the dark bands consist 

 of three : the innermost runs from the middle of the basal two-thirds of the sub- 

 median nervure to the lower subcostal nervule, its interior edge striking the subcostal 

 nervure at its divarication; externally it is narrowly edged with pale in the cell; and 

 just below this is often strangulated or even parted ; above the subcostal it is parted 

 and forked, consisting of two narrower transverse bars crossing tlie costo-subcostal 

 interspace, the exterior usually narrower than the other, generally also oblique, or with 

 its costal extremity extending toward the outer margin, and with its interior edge on a 

 line with the exterior edge of the band below it ; the interior transverse, its exterior 

 margin striking the divarication of the subcostal ; the middle band lies midway 

 between the interior one and the onter margin, extends from the submedian nervure 

 to the upper sulicostal nervule, and indistinctly to the costfil margin, nearly equal 

 throughout, very slightly arcuate or bent, its convexity inward, the interior border 

 pretty sharply, the exterior rather vaguely defined; the outermost band follows the 

 outer border from the submedian to the upper branch of the median nervure, narrowing 

 as it goes, with a vaguely defined interior margin and leaving but a narrow belt of 

 grayish between it and the middle band ; above its extremity, the outer border is 

 often paler than any other part of the wing ; the inner border, below the submedian 

 nervure, and including the whole of the tail and its fringe, is blackish brown like the 

 belts, excepting on the basal half of the wing, where it is of a tint similar to the 

 ground color of the wing, and is flecked with yellowish scales ; outer margin very 

 slenderly edged with blackish; fringe above the tail whitish or yellowish white, inter- 

 rupted at the nervure tips with blackish. 



Abdomen above of the color of the upper surface of the fore wings, concealed at 

 base by the thoracic hairs ; sides like the upper surface , beneath grayish, the extremity 

 of the apical hairs grayish yellow. Appendages of the male (35 : 37) with the upper 

 organ having the hooks very slightly arched, slightly tapering on the basal half, 

 rounded at the extremity and slightly uncinate beneath at the tip. Clasps a very 

 little more than twice as long as broad, the upper edge a little rounded, hinder edge 

 cut .at a little less tlian a right angle, and slightly produced, the upper hinder angle 

 with two or three minute deuticulatious, directed upward and a little forward, the 

 upper the largest. 



