1G62 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



under side excepting the basal tliird ; whole crook blackish fuscous, the last joint black. 

 Tongue very dark castaneons, growing blackish next the base, luteous toward tip. 



Thorax covered above with olivaceo-tawny hairs, more or less mingled anteriorly 

 with blackish ones; beneath with pale yellowish hairs, with a few intermingled black- 

 ish ones, and toward the sides becoming tinged with fulvous. Legs buff, deepest on 

 the femora, which are yellowish beneath and fringed with fulvous hairs, and within 

 are more or less infuscated, excepting toward the tip ; the tarsi are a little duskier than 

 the rest of the leg, and above, beyond the middle of the first joint, have a gradually 

 broadening stripe of brown ; spurs pale bull", tipped with dark reddish ; spines reddish 

 luteous; claws reddish; pad dusky. 



Wings above tawny, bordered with dark brown (^),or Ijlackish brown, marked 

 with pale tawny and white (?). Fore mncjs : In the male the outer border is broadly 

 margined with dark brown, occasionally flecked obscurely with fulvous scales, its in- 

 terior border extending in a straight line at right angles to the costal border from the 

 middle of the outer two-fifths of the costal border to the first inferior subcostal nerv- 

 ule ; here it is removed half the distance which would othenvise separate it from the 

 outer border until it reaches the upper median nervule, when, at a similar distance from 

 the margin to what it first occupied, it passes in ill-defined crenulations, the outer 

 points of which approach the margin on the nervules, to the inner border; the two 

 interspaces beyond the tip of the cell are partially occupied by a quadrate or triangular 

 dusky spot, larger above than below, extending above as far outwardly as tlie middle 

 of the excision in the outer bordering of the wings, vaguely limited interiorly, and 

 reaching at least halfway from its exterior limit to the tip of the cell. Stigma (43 : 11) 

 formed principally of a large, slightly arcuate, subconical patch, reaching from the 

 second divarication of the median uervure, where it is pointed, to, or very close to, the 

 middle of the basal two-thirds of the submedian nervnre, where it is broadly rounded; 

 its upper border is convex and follows the median ncrvure to midway between its base 

 aud last divarication, and then suddenly bends to the submedian; the under border is 

 concave and sweeps with a regular curve to the submedian nervure, causing the patch 

 to broaden regularly and inconsideratjly on its outer half, more rapidly on its inner 

 half ; the outer half of its upper edge is occupied by a slender stripe of velvety black 

 made of closely compacted hairs, aud a small, similar, oval patch, seldom more than 

 half as long, occupies its border next the submedian nervure ; these are sometimes con- 

 nected by a line of velvety black following the upper limits of the whole patch; the 

 upper inner half of the remainder is filled with elongated, loose brown scales, directed 

 toward the deepest part of the concavity of the exterior border; the remainder with a 

 dirty grayish substance; the patch is followed outwardly by a large roundish field of 

 erect, fuliginous, Ijlack scales, the interior margin of which rests against the whole of 

 the exterior border of the principal patch, excepting the outer velvety part, aud which 

 is a little longer than broad, equal parts lying on either side of tlie lowest median nerv- 

 ule. The costal and submedian uervures are broadly bordered on the Ixasal fourth or 

 fifth of the wing with brownish scales, and the nervules on the apical half of the wing 

 are delicately traced in brownish; the costal edge is sometimes brownish, and the 

 outer edge delicately marked with blackish ; fringe of mingled tawny and dark brown, 

 the latter absent below the lowest median nervule. In the outer half of the wing 

 of the female is an irregular series of pale spots made up, first, of a transverse row of 

 three subequal, small, contiguous spots, separated only Ijy the uervures and thus form- 

 ing a single small quadrate patch, half as long as high, at about right angles to and 

 just outside the middle of the outer half of the costal border, wliich it does not attain; 

 the spots are whitish, the upper one tinged with tawny ; second, of a curving row of four 

 unequal, quadrate or augular spots, generally pale tawny, sometimes whitish, the two 

 smaller equal and square, the upper of them slightly outside of the lower, situated in the 

 interspaces lying beyond the cell, their exterior limits separated from the outer border 

 by the width of an interspace and a half, the two larger whitish, occasionally pale tawny, 

 rhoml)ic or suljrhombic in form, the upper of them broader apically than basally, its 

 lower outer angle often considerably produced, situated close to the base of the upper 



