1502 THE BUTTERFLIES OV NEW ENGLAND. 



costal margin, midway beUvoeii tlie tip of tlie costal fold of the $ and the tip of the -wing, 

 to the middle of the outer two-thirds of the siibmedian nervure ; the spots of which it is 

 formed, and which are closely connected to form a band (more so than in any other 

 species) are pretty heavily and uniformly flecked interiorly with white scales, tending 

 tow-ard lilaceous, leaving only the exterior and interior margins Ijlack ; the interior border 

 of the band is thus formed of a series of nearly straight, short, nearly continuous, Ijlack 

 transverse dashes ; the exterior of similar but more or less arrow -shaped spots, pointing 

 outward, and often edged, especially toward their tips, withgniyish flecliing. Tlie sub- 

 marginal series of spots is never distinct, not infrequently wlioUy obsolete, and wlien 

 present usually consist of small, roundish spots, increasing in size in departing from 

 the costal margin, and only noticeable from the absence of pale flecking, so that, as the 

 flecking ceases in the lower half of the wing, they grow more and more inconspicuous, 

 often only their outer edges to be detected; occasionally they are darker than the 

 ground color, and occasionally followed apically by faint grayish, minute spots, or 

 lines leading to the margin. The outer margin is edged with black, often partially 

 obscured or interrupted l)y the pale fleckings, which extend, also, upon the basal 

 third of the fringe, which otherwise is nearly uniform and composed of mingled scales, 

 most of the grouiid color of the wing, others paler. Hind vinr/s uniform, of the ground 

 color of the fore wings; the only markings are two rows of small, dull, brownish 

 yellow spots, either minute, or very dull and indistinct, often very nearly obsolete in 

 the (J, larger, brighter and pretty distinct in the ? , one marginal, the other sinuous, 

 crossing the outer two-fifths of the wing; outer margin edged with black, rather 

 more broadly than on the fore wings ; fringe of much the ground color of the wing, 

 often darker than it basally, and occasionally paler toward tlie tip. 



Beneath dark, often blackish, fuliginous brown, the hind wing sometimes darker th.an 

 the fore wing, which generally has something of a grayish tint and is .slightly paler- 

 tinged with dull ochraceons — toward the inner border. Fair irings having almost always 

 and distinctly ( $ ), or generally, but nsu.ally obsolescent (J"), an arcuate row of quadrate, 

 pale, equal spots parallel to the outer border, in the position occuiiied by tlie vitreous spots 

 in other species ; they are faintly tipped externally with dusky and then followed by an arc- 

 uate series of usually very faint, longitudinal, independent, pale streaks reaching as far 

 down as the submedian, often oljsolete in the <f ; the upper ones are often obliterated 

 by a light flecking of hoary scales at the tip of the wing beyond the pseudovitreous spots ; 

 next the margin is a series of small pale spots in the interspaces ; outer border edged 

 with l)lack. Fringe of the ground color of the wing, often lightly flecked at the ex- 

 treme base with whitish. Hind loinr/s with a marginal series of spots similar to those 

 of the fore wings but larger and often more intense along a longitudinal median streak ; 

 and in the middle of the outer two-flfths of the wing is a transverse series of similar 

 spots often a little larger and usually subtriangular, parallel to the outer border except- 

 ing in the interspaces beyond the cell, where they often form oblique streaks placed at 

 a slight angle with each other and much further from the outer border than the other 

 spots, the upper being midway betw-een the basal divarication of the subcostal nervure 

 and the outer border ; all these spots are a little heavier and more distinct in the J than 

 in tlie ^ ; occasionally in tlie $ there is a pale spot at the extremity of tlie cell , but no 

 dark markings accompany the extra-mesial l)and excepting occasionally very faint ones 

 in the $ . Outer liorder and fringe much as in the fore wings, but the base of the latter 

 not so pale. 



Abdomen very dark brown above, the tip with a few dark ochraceons, elongfite 

 scales ; beneath more or less flecked with grayish. Ujjper organ of male appendages 

 (36 : 7-12) having the centrum moderately slender, long and high, strongly arched; 

 from the middle of the extreme posterior slope of the upper surface, a lateral, trian- 

 gular, slightly curved plate or alation with rounded apex, arises on either side, pro- 

 jecting outward and a little upward, tlie anterior edge nearly at right angles with the 

 median line of the ni.ain body, or even directed a little forward, and a little elevated. 

 Hooks united into one extremely large beak, swollen Ijeyondtlie middle, the tip pointed, 

 the sides at base compressed and directed downward as small flaps ; beyond the middle 



