1684 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



projecting a little beyouci the otliers. Antennae blackish above, having greenish and 

 pnrplisli reflections on the club; beneatli nacreous, on the inside, where it is tinged 

 with orange, interrupted with blacli at tlie tips of the joints; the apical half of the 

 under surface of the club and the crook is naked and dull orange, the last joint of 

 crook dusky, edged with a narrow border of black scales, which on the inside is fol- 

 lowed l)y a bright orange, on the outsiile by a nacreous patch, the former usually want- 

 ing in the $ ; whole upper surface of crook black. Tongue black, the tip dark maliog- 

 any brown. 



Thorax covered above with dusky and olivaceo-tawny hairs, tinged more deeply with 

 tawny toward the sides; beneath covered with very pale greenish butt" hairs, tinged 

 witli tawny toward the base of the wings. Legs tawny buil', marked above consider- 

 ably with dark brown, beneath more or less dull silvery; spurs dull silvery, brownish 

 on the side away from the leg, dark reddish at the extreme tip ; spines dusky luteous ; 

 claws rather dark reddish ; pad dusky. 



Wings dark brown, with very slight, very dark green reflections, marked with 

 liright tawny. Fore winys having the costal margin heavily and broadly marked with 

 tawny; in the (J it always extends from the discal stigma to the costal edge, persis- 

 tent directly above the stigma, and usually extending to the base of the wing on one 

 side, and nearly or quite to the extra-mesial row of spots on the other; in tlie ^ it is 

 never so largely developed, and is usually greatly obscured by dark brown; at the most 

 it occupies the outer half of the cell (with a dusky dash along the centre of the same) 

 and the interspaces above it, the dusky nervules diminishing its importance; but it is 

 not infrequently reduced to a small spot at the extremity of the cell, or a flush of 

 tawny above the outer iialf of the same. In the middle of the outer half of the wing 

 is a transverse series of tawny spots, consisting, first, of three longitudinal spots form- 

 ing a single transverse spot, divided by dusky nervures, depending from and at a right 

 angle, or a little less tlian a right angle, to the middle of tlie outer half or two-flf ths of 

 the costal margin ; second, of two minute, occasionally obsolete, squarish spots, half 

 the distance of the former from the outer margin, the upper generally the outer, sit- 

 uated in the interspaces beyond the cell ; and third, of one, two or three large spots in 

 the median and medio-submedian interspaces, the uppermost, always present, occupy- 

 ing the base of the upper median interspace, the others confined to the ? , where the 

 lower is frequently absent or obsolescent, that in the lower median interspace squar- 

 ish, larger and removed a little within the one above it, tlie lowest of very variable 

 sliape, often douljle, and when fully developed, as it is more frequently southward, 

 largest below. Not infrequently the base of the wings is delicately powdered with 

 tawny scales in the 5 , and especially along the inner border; but in the <J this is 

 always the case, and to such an extent as often to form on the lower part and base of 

 the wing a tawny field as deep as that on the costal border and continuous with it, thus 

 enveloping the inner part of the discal stigma. The latter (43 : 18) is a moderately 

 broad, equal and gently though not regularly sinuate stripe, eight times as long as 

 broad, extending from the last divarication of the median to the middle of the basal 

 two-thirds of the submedian nervure; the principal sinuation is where the lowest 

 median nervule crosses it, where also its otherwise uniformly black, compact, vel- 

 vety, hairy mass is infringed upon and occasionally divided by loosely compacted, 

 bright tawny scales below the nervule, and by similar dark brown ones above; either 

 extremity is rounded, and along the whole of its inferior edge, excepting next tlie outer 

 extremity, it has a slender, cinereous, naked edge, which again is followed outwardly 

 by an inconspicuous, broad, roundish area, composed of slightly erected, slate brown 

 scales; the area extends two-fifths of the distance to the outer margin, and is equally 

 situated on either side of the lowest median nervule. Fringe pale, mingled, especially 

 on lower half, with pale tawny scales, the base overlaid by blackish fuscous. Hind 

 wings with a broad, transverse, curving belt of tawny, of irregular width, in the 

 middle of tlie outer two-thirds of the wing, broken distinctly by the brown nervures, 

 and tlius composed of longitudinal bars of varying lengths, and when most fully devel- 

 oped, extending from the costal nervure to the middle of the medio-submedian inter- 



