1520 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



and white, one of the white ones lying just beliind the antennae and another just in 

 front of the same; connecting tlie anterior edges of the latter is a transverse line of 

 infrequent hairs similar to the one connecting the front of the antennae, and down the 

 middle of the upper part of the liead are other small white spots in transverse lines 

 with those bordering the eyes; the long tnft of curving bristles outside the antennae 

 blackish brown. Head beneath white or yellowish white, excepting where, next 

 the eyes, it is interrupted witli black. Palpi, excepting the last joint, white beneath, 

 with a few dusky or blackish bristles externally ; above rich dark purplish brown; the 

 middle joint tipped above ;vitli some white elongate scales ; apical joint wholly black- 

 ish. Antennae very dark purplish brown, the apices of the joints flecked faintly with 

 white or pale yellowish, especially beneath on the inner side; crook naked and colored 

 similarly to the club but lustreless. Tongue black, dark castaneous at tip. 



Thorax covered above with blackish, chocolate brown hairs, the prothorax edged an- 

 teriorly with a few white hairs. Beneath, with uniform, very dark purplish brown 

 scales and hairs, e.xcepting in front where the anterior face of the prothorax and the 

 coxae of the fore legs are covered with .white. Legs uniform, very dark purplish 

 brown, the spurs similar; leaf-like appendage of fore tibiae luteo-fuscous ; spines 

 yellowish brown; claws the same, but a little darker; pad dusky. 



Wings above blackish brown, generally with a chocolate, sometimes with a purplish 

 tinge. Fore wings witli a small white spot near the extremity of the cell below a point 

 midway between the origin of the second and third superior subcostal nervules ; 

 occasionally, especially in the ? , there Is a second, scarcely smaller, spot in the cell 

 jnst beneath this ; in the middle of the outer half of the wing a very sinuous series of 

 ■white dots or roundish spots occasionally obsolete in the lower half of the wing, and 

 when present almost invariably larger in the upper than in the lower half, and often 

 quadrate especially next the costal margin; the upper two spots, situated on either 

 side of the nervule which runs to tlie apex of tlie wing, are at right angles to the 

 costal margin in the middle of the outer two-fifths of the wing; the next three, in the 

 three succeeding interspaces, as far as the upper median nervule, curve regularly and 

 strongly outward, the lowermost opposite the middle of the distal half or three-flfths 

 of the upper median nervule ; the lower four form a zigzag line in the median and sub- 

 median interspaces ; the second occupies the middle of the lower median interspace; 

 tlie first is on a line with that and the spot in the subcosto-median interspace, but a 

 little nearer the former; the lowest two are both in the same interspace, parallel to the 

 spots in the median interspaces, in aline at right angles to the middle median nervure and 

 ■which passes through the lower median spot, passing between the spots of the medio- 

 submedian interspaces ; distant from tlie outer border by about the width of an interspace 

 is a submarginal series, slightly more curved than the border, of nine longitudinally 

 oval, uniform, faint, pale spots made up of flecks of very pale blue scales, sometimes 

 scarcely discernible. Fringe concolorous with the wing. Hind wing uniform, except 

 in having, at a distance from the outer border of about one and one-half interspaces, 

 a row of spots similar to the submarginal ones of the fore wings, but more frequently 

 obsolete. Fringe like the wing. 



Beneath very dark uniform brown, generally, and especially on the hind wings, tinged 

 with purplish; the distincter markings of the upper surface of the fore wings are re- 

 peated beneath with even greater distinctness, but the spots of the lower half of the 

 wing are more frequently obsolete and the series is sometimes reduced to the upper 

 three spots ; otherwise both the wings are without markings and the fringe is concolo- 

 rous with the wing. 



Abdomen uniform blackish brown ; lamina formed by the hooks of the upper organ 

 of the male appendages (35: 41-43) slightly arcuate, the teeth equal, distant and 

 slightly divergent, each about half as long as the width of the lamina, not tapering, 

 blunt at the apex, the lateral ones curved downward; the whole lamina shorter than 

 the centrum ; sheath formed of the lateral arms large, extending nearly as far back as 

 the teeth of the lamina. Clasps three and a half times longer than broad, the upper 

 and lower edges incurved, the former bearing before the middle a small triangular pro- 



