1762 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



parts heavily, and on the outside (of the femora only) lightly with pale yellow, the 

 femora fringed beneath with long, pale dirty yellow and blackish hairs, the former in 

 excess; iipper surface of tarsi dark brown, under surface buff; under surface of fore 

 tibiae silvery buff; leaflet of fore tibiae glossy dark buff; spurs brownish beneath, 

 brownish yellow above; spines bright luteous ; claws the same, a little dusky at tip; 

 pad fuliginous. 



Wings above rich, dark brown, with a slight ruddy tint in the middle, particularly of 

 the hind wings. Fore loiiujs slightly flecked on the basal fourth, especially next the 

 costal margin, with elongate, tawny scales; outer half of the wing with four or five 

 pseudovitreous spots, covered with nearly colorless scales; two (<?) or three (?) of 

 these are small, subquadrate, usually a little longer than broad, situated in the inter- 

 spaces between the second ((J) or third ($) and fifth superior subcostal nervules,the 

 uppermost of those iu the ? in the middle of its interspaces, all arranged in a straight 

 line, scarcely inclined outward from a right angle to the costal margin ; the other two are 

 larger, and situated in the median interspaces, the upper, between the second and third 

 median nervules, being the smaller and transversely lunate, openingoutward, about twice 

 as large as one of the subcostal spots, and situated in the middle of the basal half of its 

 interspace; the other spot in the interspace below is sublunate or fabiform, but trans- 

 versely oblique, directed from above downward and outward, its upper extremity 

 about midway between the upper spot and the base of the second median nervule ; it 

 is generally about twice as large as the upper median spot ; all the spots are consider- 

 ably larger in the ? than in the (J . Outer margin very faintly and very narrowly 

 marked with a pale line. Fringe pale fuliginous, sometimes witli a slight yellowish 

 tinge, its basal third of the same brown as the ground color of tlie wing. Hind xoings 

 with a minute, round, whitish, vitreous spot in the middle of the upper median inter- 

 space, which is always absent from the (J , and sometimes very indistinct in the ? , and 

 occasionally accompanied in the J by a dot in the lower median interspace at tlie same 

 distance from the margin. Fringe slightly paler than on the fore wings, but similarly 

 obscured at the base. 



Beneath of a duller brown than above, but tinged faintly and uniformly with dark 

 dull tawny excepting on the lower half of the fore wings, where it becomes more or 

 less fuliginous. Fore wings with a scarcely perceptible lighter cloud next the middle 

 of the outer margin, the spots of the upper surface repeated and, in the lower half of the 

 medio-submedian interspace, a broad, comet-like whitish dash, more distinct iu the ? 

 than in the J, flecked throughout, but especially apically, with brown, commencing just 

 beyond the middle of the interspace where it is most distinct, and fading out before 

 reaching the outer border, sometimes when but half way there. Outer margin edged 

 as above. Fringe fuliginous, darker on the basal tiian the apical half. Jlind loiiigs 

 with three subequal white spots, sometimes tinged with yellow, about the size of the 

 upper median spot of the fore wing ; two of them are situated side by side iu the 

 median interspaces, the lower in the middle of its interspace ; the third is in the middle 

 of the subcostal interspace; the lower median spot is nearly round, the upper median 

 usually longitudinally oval and slightly larger than the lower ; the subcostal varies but 

 is usually longitudinally oblique iu position and suboval in form. Fringe very much 

 as in the fore wings. 



Abdomen covered with dark fuliginous brown, overlaid above by numerous, dark 

 tawny scales and beneath by pale dirty yellow scales, which beneatli prevail on the 

 apical third of the joints and form the apical clothing of the whole of the terminal 

 joint. Upper organ of the male appendages (37 : 33) with the hook scarcely longer 

 than the breadth of its base, where it is encroached upon above by the gibbosity of the 

 centrum, its tip bluntly docked; lateral arms less bluntly pointed than the hook, nearly 

 reaching its tip. Clasps twice as long as broad, the upper border with a basal rounded 

 expansion and beyond the middle a slightly upturned, small, rouuded lobe longer than 

 broad, scarcely separated from the part just beyond, consisting of a very small blunt 

 tooth, by a slight, transverse incision. 



