1654 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



beliind the ovtr-arching pencil of mingled blackish and dark tawny hairs; behind 

 the eyes a cluster of mingled white and yellowish scales. Antennae blackish brown 

 above, faintly annulate at the tip of the joints with black, clay brown beneath, extend- 

 ing far upon the club, which otlierwise is black brown with a purplish reflection, flecked 

 with some steel gray scales ; naked apical portion of the club and hook luteo-f errugi- 

 nous. Palpi dirty white washed with yellow, the white most noticeable along the 

 middle, sparsely flecked throughout with black hairs ; the apical joint light brown, 

 above darker, sometimes blackish. Eyes piceous. Tongue blackish castaneous, cas- 

 taneous at tip. 



Thorax covered with long fulvous and olivaceous hairs, when fully clothed almost 

 entirely concealing tlie purplish black and steel gray scales which cover it prof usely ; 

 beneath covered with pale yellowish and whitish hairs, and some slate gray scales. 

 Legs completely covered above with pale clay yellow scales, the femora with heavy 

 fringes of very pale yellowish hairs ; spines testaceous, on the tarsi slightly darker 

 than on the tibiae; spurs the same but clothed with pale clay scales, castaneous at the 

 tip; claws dark castaneous; pulvilli black. 



Wings above very dark purplish brown ((J) or dark brown (?), with pale tawuy 

 ( ^ )or pallid (?) markings. Fore wings in the male with a discal stigma composed of 

 two slender, scarcely arcuate, black lines in the medio-submedian and lowest median 

 interspaces, roofed in by steel gray arching scales above and below; the upper stigma 

 followed on the outer half of its upper limit by a patch of black rods and the extreme 

 base of the lower stigma with a roundish patch of the same; this stigma divides two 

 tawny areas : the upper one, more or less pallid, is found at the extremity of the cell where 

 outwardly it terminates abruptly; the other forms the lower part of an irregular ex- 

 tra-mesial series of fulvous spots, consisting, first, of three .short dashes in the subcos- 

 tal interspaces, one directly over the other, generally increa.sing in length from above 

 downward and placed at just less than half way from the tip of the cell to the tip of 

 the wing; these are followed by two dots, one above the other, in the subcosto-median 

 and upper median interspaces, parallel to the outer border, a little outside of the 

 outermost of the subcostal spots ; and in the median interspaces below these a ful- 

 vous band following the lower margin of the stigma, broken by the interspaces and 

 running in a straight line from the dots previously mentioned to the middle of the 

 inner border, broadening as it passes. All tliese tawny markings are replaced in the 

 female by pallid and the markings difl'er further in that the spot at the extremity of 

 the cell is shorter, has a more distinct inner margin, and that in the medio-submedian 

 interspace is very much reduced in size. Hind wings with a faint repetition of the 

 markings of the under surface, either tawny ((J) or very pale tawny ( ? ) ; in the latter 

 the ground of the entire wing much obscured by tawny hairs. Fringe of all the wings 

 of the color of the upper surface on the basal half, apically much more pallid, except- 

 ing on the upper half of the outer border of the fore wings; its extreme base marked 

 by a blackish brown thread. 



Beneath : fore loiyu/s dark brown ( (J ) or pale brown ( ? ) , in the parts not covered 

 by the hind wings rather heavily dusted with tawny scales; the markings of the upper 

 surface are repeated beneath but more vaguely and in paler colors, especially in the 

 male, the position of the stigma being marked by a blackish brown stripe. Hind wings 

 of the same ground color as the fore wings but very heavily dusted with tawny scales, 

 the markings consisting of a small round whitish spot at the extremity of the cell and an 

 extra-mesial series of similar spots, forming a lient band running from the subcostal 

 interspace to the lower median interspace inclusive, bent at a right angle in the sub- 

 costo-median interspace, where the spots arc two in number, smaller than the rest, side 

 by side, and distant from the outer margin by the width of the interspace; fringe of 

 both wings as above. 



Abdomen dark brown, more or less flecked with ligliter brown scales, especially at 

 the incisures and beneath. The upper organ of the male appendages (37 : 7) is fully 

 twice as long as broad, the centrum strongly arched, the tapering hook nearly straight, 

 slightly downcurved apically ; lateral arms slender, equally straight, tapering regularly. 



