1702 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



flUed nearly to the outer bonlering with a dark l)rown quadrate patch; outer half and 

 sometimes the whole of the costal edge blackish, the principal veins begrimed with 

 blackish on the basal fourth of the wing ; discal stigma (43 : 5) live times as long as 

 broad, extending from the extreme base of the upper median interspace to the sub- 

 median nervure a little beyond the middle of its basal two-thirds ; along its upper edge 

 which is sinuous, formed of two convexities, it is velvety black, heavier at the ex- 

 tremities than elsewhere; the bulk of the stigma is gray brown sometimes ashen and is 

 limited below by a nearly straight edge, folloMed Ijy a blackish brown cloud al)out 

 four times as broad as long, with a broadly rounded outer outline and composed of 

 slightly raised scales ; outer border f aiutly marked with a black edge ; fringe of 

 mingled dull orange and dusky scales, the latter wanting below, the basal third black- 

 ish ($); or, very darkbi-own, occasionally tinged with olivaceous, with an extra-mesial 

 row of pale yellowish or whitish spots, three of which, in the subcostal interspace, 

 are longitudinal, very small, sometimes obsolete, the series directed at right angles to tlie 

 costal border, just beyond the middle of its outer half; the others, two in number, are 

 larger, subtriangular, at the base of the median interspaces, the upper at the extreme 

 base, in a line directed from the outer border at the extremity of the lowest subcostal 

 nervule to the middle of the basal half or even third of the inner border; occasionally 

 upon the subraedian nervure there is a slight streak just below the spot in the lower 

 median interspace; outer border delicately edged with a blackish line; fringe dusky, 

 blackish toward the base, slightly tinged with yellowish toward the tip, especially 

 below (?). Hind -wings dark($ ) or blackish ( (J) brown, either slightly tinged with dull 

 olivaceous (?) or with the central parts of the wing from the lower subcostal to the 

 lower submedian nervule and from near the base to within an interspace's distance of 

 the outer border almost wholly dull orange, the nervures dai'k and occasionally the 

 whole slightly begrimed with dusky scales ; the inner border below it covered with 

 dull olivaceo-tawuy hairs ((J) ; outer border very faintly marked with a blackish line; 

 fringe either pale or orange, its basal fourth dusky ((?), or similar to that of the fore 

 wing or slightly paler ( $ ). 



Beneath; foi-e rom^s either similar to the upper surface but pale and duller, the mark- 

 ings not so heavy and less clearly defined, the outer border largely flecked, especially 

 cutwai'dly and on the upper half of the wing, with scales of the color of the ground, 

 the basal half of the lower half of the wing blackish fuliginous and the inner margin 

 as far as the middle of the medio-submedian interspace fuliginous; outer margin 

 marked distinctly but delicately with a blackish brown line; fringe much as" above but 

 enlivened a little witli pale orauge scales on its basal half ( (? ) ; or, dark Ijrown, hardly so 

 dark as above, witli the same markings as above, a little greenish and slightly larger, 

 and connected in the interspaces beyond the cell by a faint cloud farther from the 

 upper median than that from the lower median spot; the upper half of the wing, ex- 

 cepting in the cell, rather profusely flecked with yellowish green scales ; outer margin 

 indistinctly marked at the edge with a blackish line ; fringe a little paler than above, 

 its basal half more or less enlivened with yellowish green ( ? ). Sind v>inrjs greenish 

 yellow ( (J ) or dusky yellowish green ( ? ) , deepest in color in the centre, heavily blotched 

 with rich dark brown tinged with reddish {$) or obscure dark brown (?); these 

 blotches obscure the base and form an intra-mcsial and submarginal series, the former 

 two often coalescing so that the brighter colors form a very broad and irregular mesial 

 belt; the intra-mesial series consists principally of two spots, a triangular, transverse 

 patch, broadest next the costal margin and extending across the base of the lower 

 subcostal interspace to the last divarication of the median, but often broken in the 

 middle ; and a roundish patch of about the same size filling the base of the median 

 interspaces. The submarginal series consists of nearly equal blotches in the subcos- 

 tal and median interspaces, that in the lower subcostal largest, their exterior limits an 

 interspace's width from the outer margin. These markings are all much more strongly 

 contrasted in the $ than in the $ . Outer margin delicately edged with a dark line ; 

 fringe pale orauge {$) or dusky olivaceous ( ? ) . 

 Abdomen blackish above, the sides more or less marked with tawny ; beneath grimy, 



