1478 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



base, especiall_v in the cell : Init they are wholly irregular and fleeting, although occa- 

 sionally, especially in rubbed specimens and in the ? rather conspicuous. The outer 

 half of the wing is traversed by two series of dark sjjots : one is a transverse, gently 

 arcuate band, snbparallel to the outer Ijorder, and, in the middle of the outer half of 

 the wing, composed of nearly or quite connected longitudinal dashes, always broadest 

 toward the inner side and often elongate triangular; in the upper half of the wiug the 

 vitreous spots lie within this baud at its interior border ; in the lower half they lie 

 nearly or quite in its middle, the dark spots often, and especially in the $ , reduced to 

 a mere edging of these; when the vitreous spots of the medio-submedian interspace 

 are absent, their place is often supplied by a grayish centre to the dark spots ; more 

 frequently than the others, the dark spots of the lower median and medio-submedian 

 interspaces are l)ordered externally by a lunulate flecking of grayish or hoary scales; 

 the other and outer series consists of a subequal, submargiual set of dusky brown spots, 

 a little larger and slightly further removed from the outer border below than above, gen- 

 erally roundish in the upper, lunulate in the lower half of the wing, and often tipped out- 

 wardly by pale dots or more than usually intense gray flecking ; outer mai-gin uarrowly 

 edged with blackish; fringe gray brown, scarcely paler than the wing, but flecked to 

 a greater or less extent on the basal half with white scales. Hind wings soft, cloudy, 

 blackish brown , generally duller and paler in the ? than in the $ , furnished abundantly 

 on the lower half with long, silky hairs of the same color; the outer border is fur- 

 nished with a double series of confused, cloudy, pale gray or dull yellowish brown, 

 roundish spots, oue marginal and regular, the other submarginal and sinuous, each 

 followed interiorly by similar iudistinct and confused spots, slightly darker than the 

 ground color; the whole a repetition of the marks below, and almost always very in- 

 distinct iu the $ , sometimes in the $ ; outer margin rather narrowly edged with 

 blackish; fringe paler than in the fore wings, being tinged with yellowish and often 

 dirty white on the apical half; the base is often partially overlaid with Ijlackish or 

 dusky scales, but by no hoary ones. 



Beneath rather dark purplish brown, the fore wings more or less grayish. Fore 

 wings with the vitreous spots scarcely larger than above, occasionally accompanied, 

 especially in the female, Ijy similar spots in the medio-submedian interspace; they are, 

 however, no more frequently present in the interspaces beyond the cell than they are 

 above ; the extra-mesial spots are edged witliin and without with blackish brown clouds 

 presenting together the semblance of a baud; lieyond, the submargiual, dusky, cloudy 

 spots are scarcely so distinct as above, often smaller, accompanied within by a parallel 

 series of similar, but generally smaller, pale spots and without by more distinct paler, 

 smaller spots , often sagittate, each intensifled in the middle to form a longitudinal whitish 

 line conductingto the outer border; theapexof the wing, beyond the submarginal vitre- 

 ous spots, is flecked with hoary scales, often obliterating the markings; outer border 

 edged narrowly with blackish ; fringe of the ground color of wiug, a little paler at 

 extreme tip and on the basal third overlaid with hoary scales. Hind wings with a margi- 

 nal series of very dull ochraceous, indistinct, small, marginal spots in the interspaces, 

 often more intense aloug a median longitudinal line, followed by large, cloudy, dusky, 

 often scarcely discernible, spots in the same interspaces ; these again by spots similar to 

 the submargiual ones, but often sagittate, and generally obsolescent excepting in the 

 median interspaces, where the upper one occupies the middle of the interspace; these 

 three rows of spots extend from the costal to the submediau nervures, but the last is 

 irregular, receding far from the outer border in the interspaces beyond the cell, and they 

 are followed by dusky spots similar to those which succeed the marginal row but often 

 still fainter, excepting in the costo-subcostal and upper suljcostal interspaces, where 

 they are more distinct and generally have a large, pale or ochraceous pupil of a quad- 

 rate or triangular shape, thus forming usually very distinct spots ; the lower is situ- 

 ated in the middle of the basal two-thirds of the upper subcostal interspace; the upper in 

 the middle of the costo-subcostal interspace; in the middleof thecell, justwithin a line 

 connecting the bases of the first subcostal and second median nervules is a small, pale 

 ochraceous spot, often obsolete; outer margin and fringe as in fore wing, excepting 

 that the latter is overlaid at the base by pale ochraceous instead of hoary scales. 



