1508 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



interior margins being about equally well, although not sharply, defined; it is of nearly 

 equal width, slightly arcuate, parallel to the outer border, and like that slightly disturbed 

 in its regularity just below the middle, sometimes it is simply bent, but (luite as often 

 the lower lialf is removed very slightly inward and curves in an opposite sense, raaliing 

 the whole band slightly sinuous; it extends from the costal margin, midway between 

 the tip of the costal nervure and tlie tip of the wing to the middle of tlie outer three- 

 fifths of the submedian nervure, and is about equal in width to the breadtli of the 

 medio-submedian interspace; tlie connected spots of which tlie band is formed are 

 almost always lighter than the blackish edges, and are still more greatly contrasted by 

 the hoary flecking of the interior; the interior edge of the band is simply a tremulous 

 line, while the exterior is a strongly, often deeply and sharply zigzag line, the spots 

 being spear-shaped exteriorly, though more generally blunt than pointed; they are 

 xisually followed by more or less distinct grayish fleckings ; the submarginal series of 

 often connected spots is sliglitly further removed from tlie outer margin below than 

 above; the spots vary in size according to the individual, usually increase in size 

 downwards, when independent are usually round, approaching a lunulate form as they 

 merge, and generally preserve this tendenc.v when most completely transformed to a 

 baud. The outer margin is edged with blackish and often crossed by short longitu- 

 dinal lines on the tips of the nervures, especially in the lower half of the wing, which 

 extend an equal distance on either side of it, and reach nearly to the middle of the 

 fringe. Fringe dark brownish fuscous ; the basal two-fifths blackish, but almost en- 

 tirely concealed by lilaceous fleckings. Hind winr/s quite uniform in tint, exactly of 

 the real ground color of the fore wings, or occasionally slightly darker; two rows of 

 moderately distinct, but generally not well defined, small, roundish, yellowish brown 

 spots are found on tlie apical portion of the wing; one is a regular marginal series, 

 usually of pale points or dots in all the interspaces, the other less regular, sinuous, at 

 least in the upper half of the wing lying in the middle of the outer four-fifths of the 

 wing, and composed of larger spots sometimes partially obsolete ; a similar spot often 

 occurs near the apex of the cell ; outer margin edged, sometimes obscurely, with black- 

 ish ; fringe a little paler, more yellowish brown than on the fore wing, the basal por- 

 tion infuscated. 



Beneath very dark brown, scarcely tinged with purplish, a little grayisli, especially 

 on the outer half of the fore wings. Fore wings witli more or less distinct pale spots, 

 generally quite distinct and pretty large in the ? , where the vitreous spots of the 

 other species occur, and almost always, also, in the interspaces beyond the cell; all 

 these, and especially tlie subcostal ones, are edged externally with blackish, and these 

 again followed usually by an arcuate series of longitudinally ovate, independent, 

 equal, very pale ochraceous spots in the middle of the apical half or two-fifths of the 

 wing, but are often obliterated above by a large patch of hoary, slightly lilaceous 

 scales, which occupies the apex of the wing beyond the dark bordering of the pseudo- 

 vitreous spots ; a marginal series of minute pale or whitish spots or dots occur in the 

 interspaces. Outer border edged with black. Fringe nearly uniform, dark slate 

 brown, often flecked with pale or whitisli scales at the extreme base, especially 

 above. Hind loings with a distinct marginal row of small, pale ochraceous spots, 

 always more intense along a longitudinally median line, and sometimes reduced to this 

 streak; a sometimes equally distinct, transverse series of similar but roundish or sub- 

 triangular spots in the middle of the outer two-fifths of the wing, parallel to the outer 

 border, excepting that in the interspaces beyond the cell the spots recede to a point 

 midway between the base of the first subcostal nervule and the outer border, and, in 

 the costo-subcostal interspace, the spot is usually even further from the border; these 

 spots are all followed Interiorly by darker spots, very nearly obsolete, sometimes only 

 forming a dark interior edging to the pale spots, but generally of equal size, dusky 

 and indistinct, of a roundish form; in the middle of the extremity of the cell is a 

 similar but generally more indistinct, pale spot, followed interiorly by a dusky one; 

 outer border and fringe much as in the fore wings. 



Abdomen blackish brown aljove, often faintly flecked with grayish at the extreme 



