1570 THE BUTTEllKLli-:S OF MEW ENGLAND. 



wing ; the band is sliglitly broader tlian the width of the cell, excepting beyond the cell, 

 where it is slightly smaller, and extends from just below the extreme costal margin to 

 the submedian nervure, in the interspace above which the spot is divided longitudinally 

 into two nearly equal rhomboidal patches, the outer border of each sloping toward the 

 middle of the interspace ; in tlie lower half of the same interspace, midway between the 

 spot and the base is a small, roundish, tawny spot; edge of outer border blackish. Basal 

 half of fringe blackish, outer half dull olivaceo-tawny. Hind wings v/ith a small, oval, 

 longitudinal spot in the middle of tlie upper two-thirds of the cell, a large, roundish one at 

 the extreme base of the two interspaces beyond the cell and occupying the whole of their 

 width ; a third, similar in size and shape to the cellular spot, but sometimes a little more 

 elongated and often less distinct, in tlie lower median interspace, its outer limits in the 

 centre of the interspace ; a fourth and similar one is usually found in the interspace 

 above the large spot, its internal border as far from the outer margin of the wing as the 

 external border of the latter ; there is, besides, a submarginal series of very small, round 

 spots, often wholly or partially obsolete, extending from the subcostal to the sub- 

 median nervures, midway between the previously described spot and the outer margin 

 in the uppermost interspace, and receding very slightly from the border in passing 

 downward. Edge of outer border scarcely marked with black. Fringe rather pale, 

 tawny yellow, the basal half or third pretty deeply obscured with blackish. 



Beneath tawny buff, marked with dark brown. Fore icings with the extreme base of 

 the cell, a semicircular spot in the middle of its upper two-thirds, the basal half of the 

 medio-submedian interspace, excepting a very small space in the middle of the lower 

 half, and a roundish spot close to, but not at, the base of the lower median interspace, 

 dark brown; besides there is a rather large quadrate spot twice as long as broad, 

 occupying the basal half of the interspaces beyond the cell and the extremity of the 

 cell itself, but enlivened at the nervures which terminate the cell by a transverse stripe 

 of yellow, a color which sometimes powders also the parts beyond ; its interior third 

 is surmounted by a dark triangular patch which reaches the costal margin, where 

 it is broadest. Beyond is a transverse series of dusky quadrate spots separated by 

 little Ijut the nervures, subparallel to the outer border, but approaching it below because 

 broader there than above ; the interior limit of the band is continuous with the exterior 

 limit of the spot in the interspaces beyond the cell, but in these same interspaces the band 

 is represented only by two very small, roundish spots, or by slender lunules, the interior 

 limits of which are on a line with the exterior limits of the rest of the band ; the outer 

 half of the costal margin is very narrowly black-edged, as is the whole outer margin, 

 •where it develops dots on the nervules. Fringe very dark fuscous, paling toward the 

 tip on the basal half, slightly enlivened by tawny scales. Jlind icings with three rows 

 of obscurely black-edged spots : the innermost, in the middle of the basal two-thirds of 

 the wing, consists of two very large, silvery white, longitudinally oval spots, occasion- 

 ally tinged with yellow, one in the middle of the cell, the other just before the middle 

 of the costo-subcostal interspace ; the next series, in the middle of the outer two-thirds 

 of the wing, consists of a straight, transverse series, subparallel to the first, of three 

 unequal, roundish spots, the largest, usually the largest spot in the wing, traversed in 

 themiddlethroughout its breadth by the nervules closing the cell; the smallest, next to it 

 and less brilliant, in the lower median interspace opposite the second divarication of the 

 median ; the lowest, midway in size between the two and sometimes greatly elongated, 

 lies in the medio-submedian interspace, its interior limit in the middle of the inter- 

 space; the third series is a submarginal one of small, roundish, or semicircular spots, 

 yellowish or tawny, tinged with whitish or occasionally with silvery, occupying all the 

 interspaces from the costal to the submedian nervures, the spots equal and as large as 

 the middle spot of the previous series, excepting that in the upper subcostal interspace, 

 •which is twice as large as the others and on a line with the spots of the middle series. 

 Fringe dark tawny, paler toward the inner angle, the basal half on the upper two-thirds 

 of the wing obscured with fuscous. 



Abdomen blackish on the upper half, more or less enlivened with tawny scales; be- 

 neath tawny, at the base of the wings, and especially along the lateroveutral line, 



