1618 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Wings above tawny, broadly bordered with blackish brown. Fore wings with the 

 costal edge brown, the base of the wing more or less largely obscured by brown or dusky 

 scales, extending particularly along the nervures; iu the male it is usually less deeply 

 obscured than in the $ , and ordinarily extends to the first divarication of the median 

 nervuro, while in the $ it often extends, especially above the subcostal nervure and 

 below the iirst median nervule, uearly halfway to the outer margin of the wing; the 

 outer dark border is also usually l)roader in the 9 than in the $ , averaging one and a 

 half interspaces in width in the <? , two in the ? ; its inner limit, which is irregularly 

 creuulate, its convexities in the interspaces, commences on the third superior subcostal 

 nervule just before its tip, and crosses three interspaces at right angles to the costal 

 border; it traverses the next two interspaces midway between its former path and the 

 outer margin, after which it returns nearly to its former direction, continuing uearly 

 parallel to the outer border to the suljmedian nervule; the inner border, as far as the 

 submedian nervure, is also brown, excepting a slender streak of obscure tawny some- 

 times found extending from the base to about the middle of the interspace ; iu the tawny 

 area thus circumscribed tlie nervules are traced in brown and next the outer l)order, 

 above the median area, the color is usually paler, making a series of little spots, ren- 

 dered much more conspicuous because, usually in the female and not infrequently in the 

 male, the dusky tracings of the base of the superior subcostal nervules become Ijlended 

 into a cloudy spot, and the interspaces beyond the cell are tilled nearly to the dark margin 

 with a longitudinal, oval or quadrate, dusk.y patch, usually less distinct and sometimes 

 quite obsolete next the outer limit of the cell ; the latter marked by a slender, blackish 

 line. Fringe dark castaneous brown, merging into tawny below tlie lower median nervule. 

 Hind icings very broadly margined with brown, leaving a central patcli of tawny, 

 crossed by the browu nervules and occupying tlie basal two-thirds of the lower sub- 

 costal interspace, the apical half of the cell, the subcosto-mcdian interspace to 

 within an interspace's width of the border and the basal two-thirds of the median 

 interspaces ; in the ? it is often still further diminished ; the inner dark border is en- 

 livened by a profusion of long, obscure, tawny hairs. Fringe tawny, more or less 

 obscured above the lower median nervule, and especially at the nervule tips, with 

 duslvv. 



Beneath : Fore icings tawny as above, l)ut with more of a yellowish tinge, especially 

 toward the inner margin ; base more deeply, but less extensively, suffused with blackish, 

 wanting above the subcostal nervure; outer margin bordered as above as far as the 

 lower median nervule, below which it is largely infringed upon by the yellowish tawny, 

 which beclouds it; the border is not so dark as above, and has a reddish tinge and is 

 besides besprinkled with hoary scales on its outer half, through which the outer edge 

 of the wing is marked by a dusky line, with a dot at the tip of the nervules ; the inner 

 border is margined with blackish, usually only on the basal half; the black, trausverse, 

 bent streak at the tip of the cell is repeated and occasionally the other darker mark- 

 ings of the apical half in an obscure manner ; the median nervules, and occasionally the 

 others, are faintly traced in brownish. Fringe glossy, rather pale castaneous, shading 

 into dull tawny below, often dashed above with hoary and cut at the principal nervure 

 tips with a dusky line. Hind icings dark brown, with a reddish tinge caused l)y cin- 

 namoneous scales and hairs on a dark brown ground ; next the outer margin rather 

 broadly flecked with hoary, and across the middle of the outer two-thirds of the wing an 

 exceedingly broad band of rather bright, pale greenish yellow — in old specimens quite 

 pale — broadest in the subcosto-median interspace, narrowing a little only toward the 

 costal, but considerably toward the inner border where it barely reaches the submedian 

 nervure ; its outer limit crosses the costo-subcostal and subcostal interspaces at more 

 than an interspace's distance from the outer border ; at the lower subcostal nervule it 

 is removed more than half the distance toward the outer border, half of which it re- 

 covers at the upper median nervule, from whence it passes in a succession of crenulations 

 to the middle of the outer half of the submedian nervure; the band is here the width 

 of an interspace, and, returning, its interior margin is directed toward the middle median 

 nervule just beyond its origin, to which it then runs, and crosses to the costal margin 



