1706 THE BUTTERFLIES OF >fEW ENGLAND. 



tinged \\M\ ferruginous, extending nearly or quite to the costal border, generally nar- 

 rowing as it goes; traces of this patch are seen in the J , but they are generally con- 

 flued to the immediate border of tlie larger patch. In both sexes, but especially in the 

 $ , the base of the wing, especially along the nervures, is begrimed with dusky scales, 

 and the nervures in the outer half of tlie wing are usually traced with dusky scales; 

 in the ? the basal obscurity is accompanied by a large, triangular, dusky patch, often 

 flecked a little with tawny scales, extending from the cell to the submedian nervure, 

 and from the base of the wing to the last median divarication , where at its upper outer 

 angle it connects with the other patch; the inner margin below the submedian is also 

 dusky. In the $ the discal stigma (43 :6) consists of a very slender, slightly sinuous 

 stripe, extending from the last divarication of the median nervure to a point on the 

 submedian a little beyond the middle of its basal two-thirds ; it is fourteen times longer 

 than broad, and consists mainly of short, erect, very closely compacted, delicate, black- 

 ish brown hairs ; but at its outer extremity and upper edge, following the median ner. 

 vure, from its last divarication halfway to its first, is aline of slightly more elevated, 

 purplish black, slender scales ; the stripe is followed on its under outer surface by a 

 rounded, moderately broad patch of soft dark brown, slightly raised scales, which does 

 not quite reach either extremity of the patch, is less than half as high as broad, and is 

 cut in the middle by the lower median nervule, which sometimes divides it into two 

 symmetrical, rounded patches, united to a greater or less extent by the adjacent bor- 

 ders. The costal edge is occasionally marked with dark brown ; the edge of the outer 

 margin is delicately traced with a blackish line ; the fringe is dingy pale, often suffused 

 slightly with yellowish, overlaid at base by dusky scales, and often obscured by dusky 

 to a greater or less degree on tlie upper half. Hind vHnys broadly bordered around the 

 entire wing by dark brown, and crossed in the middle by a belt of the same, so that 

 they may better be described as dark brown with an extra-mesial band and intra- 

 mesial spot of tawny, often largely obscured, especially in the $ , and crossed by dusky 

 nervures; the spot occupies the outer half of the cell and is almost always largely ob- 

 scured ; the band extends from the upper subcostal to the lower median nervule, and 

 sometimes to the middle of the medio-submedian interspace, and varies in width from 

 scarcely more than the width of one to that of two or three interspaces, and occasion- 

 ally, especially in the $, extends so far toward the base that the dark parts lying 

 between it and the cellular spot are reduced to a narrow, dusky Ijordering of the cell; 

 usually the outer border is slenderly edged with blackish ; the fringe is as in the fore 

 ■wings, its basal fourth dusky. 



Beneath orange buff, occasionally tinged slightly with ciunamoueous (<?), or tawny 

 cinnamoneous, the fore wings at least more or less infuscated (? ). Fore wings more 

 deeply tinted along the costal border thau elsewhere, the paler parts of the upper sur- 

 face adjoining the outer bordering repeated beneath, but still paler, while the other 

 markings are similar; the outer border is delicately marked with a blackish edge, and 

 the fringe is nearly uniform pale brown, tinged according to the sex with the ground 

 color of the wing. Hind winys with yellow markings, which are inconspicuous, some- 

 times scarcely discernible in the $ , distinct or indeed conspicuous in the $ ; they con- 

 sist of a moderately large spot at the tip of the cell and a rather broad, equal, strongly 

 sinuate or bent extra-mesial belt, extending from the costal nervure to the middle of 

 the medio-submedian interspace, crossing the upper median interspace about midway 

 between the base and tip, the exterior border of the band lying, as a rule, about half 

 way between the interior border and the outer margin of the wing ; the inner border, 

 as far as the submedian, and especially on the outer half of the wing, is usually a little 

 paler than the other parts, especially in the J ; the edge of the outer margin is some- 

 times traced delicately in black, and the fringe resemljles that of the fore wing or is a 

 little paler. 



Abdomen blackish above, covered rather profusely with long, tawny hairs, becoming 

 thicker and clearer toward the tip of tlie abdomen, and on the apex of the joints on 

 the sides ; beneath a little paler than the under surface of the wings. Male appen- 

 dages (37 :31) with the upper organ very long, extending far beyond the clasps, the 



