1772 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



upper edge, but the sides and tip broadly margined with brownish yellow or dark bufl", 

 the whole furnished with sparsely scattered, very fine black hairs; above without any 

 white; terminal joint brownish yellow, flecked in front with paler scales. Antennae 

 above ratlier dark brown, the base of each joint narrowly interrupted with whitish, 

 which broadens anteriorly ; beneath white or nacreous to the end of the club, and even 

 in a slender stripe along the posterior side of the crook to its very tip ; rest of crook 

 naked, and dark castaneous. 



Thorax above covered with dark brown and brownish ferruginous hairs, mingled 

 anteriorly with many blackish ones ; beneath with ferrugineo-castaneons hairs, which 

 are paler at their base. Femora dark purplish brown, above and outside flecked with 

 many silvery gray scales; tibiae and tarsi dark brown, flecked beneath with many pale 

 yellowish, or on the fore legs whitish, scales ; leaf-like appendage of fore tibiae pale, 

 glistening, brownish yellow; spurs pale brown, tipped rather largely with reddish lut- 

 eous ; spiues reddish luteous ; claws the same; pad dusky. 



Wings above dark slate brown, slightly paler on the outer half, sparsely flecked with 

 yellowish brown, the nervures blackish. Fore icings with a transverse, straight series 

 of three subequal, white, subcostal spots, generally increasing in size toward the cos- 

 tal border and arranged at right angles to it, or at a very little less than a right angle 

 viewed from the inner side, at a little beyond the middle of its outer half; in the mid- 

 dle of the basal half of the upper median interspace a white spot of similar size ; these 

 markings are of about equal size in tlie ^ and $ ; in the ? there is also a slightly larger, 

 roundish or transversely quadrate spot in the lower median interspace, below a point 

 midway between the base of the upper median interspace and its spot and also a 

 minute spot or speck in the cell at the base of the first subcostal nervule. Discal stig- 

 ma exceedingly obscure, composed of two slender, blackish brown lines, the outer 

 straight, extending from the last median divarication to the lower median nervule in a 

 direction toward the middle of the basal two-fifths of the submedian nervule ; the inner 

 extends from the middle of the basal four-fifths of the submedian nervure, parallel to 

 the outer streak, fully to the middle of the medio-submediau interspace, is there broken, 

 and then curves upward and meets the extremity of the outer streak; outer margin of 

 the wing very slenderly edged with a blackish line. Fringe pale, dirty yellowish, more 

 or less flecked with dusky, especially at the nervure tips, its basal third infuscated. 

 Sind loinc/s without markings; outer margin and fringe as in the fore wings. 



Beneath very dark brown, the outer half of the wing made hoary gray by a more or less 

 profuse admixture of hoary scales. Fore icings with the markings of the upper surface 

 repeated beneath, the hoary flush of the outer half of the wing deepening apically , espe- 

 cially above the lower median nervule, where it is deepest, in a broad, lunate area whose 

 points rest on the apex of the wing and the tip of the nervule mentioned ; outer margin 

 edged narrowly with a blackish line. Fringe as above. Hind icings with a small, 

 round, dark edged, white spot close to the base of the costo-subcostal interspace, and 

 occasionally a second smaller one in the same interspace, midway between the first and 

 the outer margin ; the hoary flecking of the outer part of the wing is somewhat dis- 

 tinctly delimited at the middle of the wing and increases in depth apically, interrupted, 

 however, a little before the middle of its area, by a narrow band of dusky connected 

 spots, more or less distinctly free from hoary flecking; outer margin edged narrowly 

 with a blackish line. Fringe as above. 



Abdomen blackish brown, flecked with grayish at the apices of the segments, indis- 

 tinctly above and at sides, distinctly and more largely below. Upper organ of the 

 male appendages (37 : 36) with the tips of the hooks more widely separated than the 

 base; lateral arms similar to those of accius Ijut a little more curved and pointed at 

 the tip; i. e. more ensiform, separated throughout as widely as the hooks. Clasps 

 much larger than in accius, nearly two and one-half times longer than broad, the ex- 

 tremity strongly rounded, longest in the middle, above produced to an upward and 

 slightly forward directed triangular tooth, separated by a deep but narrow excision 

 from the posterior lobe of the upper margin, which is scarcely larger, directed back- 

 ward and upward, and rounded at the tip. 



