1806 BUTTERFLIES BKYOKD KEW ENGLAND. 



spaces, the first midivay between the termination of the band and the last divarication 

 of the median nervure, the second below that divarication, and the third outside of the 

 second by its own width; within the mesial band are three narrow transverse bands 

 crossing the cell, the Innermost not reaching the median nervure; within these is a 

 small lunule, opening outward ; below the divarication of the median uervuro is a short 

 dash, suddenly bent inward, and then slightly upward ; the extreme base of the wiug is 

 slightly dusky; at the outer border is a broad band, regularly angulated on inner bor- 

 der, enclosing a series of slender, transverse or linear, fulvous spots, seldom continu- 

 ous, except at the apex, where they are larger; between this and the mesial band is a 

 curved row of roundish spots, the lower one of which falls outside of the curve; at 

 the apex this row merges into the outer band ; between this band and the mesial there 

 is on the costal border a dusky triangular spot, extending to the penultimate branch of 

 the subcostal nervure. Hind wings: the mesial band extends, with a very irregularly 

 zigzag course, from the middle of the costal border to a point between the subcostal 

 and median nervures three-fifths of the distance from the base, and then, nearly at 

 right angles, to the middle of the inner border; it is generally interrupted and then 

 formed of Ave dashes : the first, in the costo-subcostal interspace, at a little less than 

 one-half the distance from the base, is directed inward toward the inner border, about 

 one-third the distance from the base ; the second starting from outside the first ci-osses 

 the subcostal nervule at right angles ; the third at some distance outward crosses the 

 subcosto-median and upper median Interspaces, at right angles to the nervules ; the 

 fourth crosses the next interspace in the same general direction, but removed by Its 

 own width further toward the base; the fifth turned upward and starting just Ijeyond 

 the fourth, crosses the medio-suljmedian interspace ; both the second and the third are 

 occasionally bent; within this band, the subcostal nervure is broadly bordered with 

 black scales from its divarication to its union with the median, and from the middle of 

 the band so formed a band of equal width crosses the cell to the divarication of the 

 median ; in the middle of the cell is a rather large round spot, and in the costo-subcos- 

 tal interspace is a black streak, parallel to the mesial band and midway between it and 

 the base; the extreme base of the wing and the inner border are slightly dusky; the 

 outer black border of the wing is rather broad, and within it is a row of large triangular 

 spots, separated from the border by a narrow fulvous stripe, sometimes broken into 

 spots ; nearly midway between the row of triangular spots and the mesial band, but ap- 

 proaching the former, is a curved row of rather large round spots in the subcostal and 

 median interspaces. Fringe of outer border dark brown, interrupted with ochraceous. 

 Beneath : Fore wings pale fulvous, with the markings of the basal half and the 

 row of round spots repeated conspicuously; apex pale cinnamon red, the tip and a 

 streak on costal border midway between it and mesial band, ochraceous ; the black bor- 

 <ler of the upper surface wanting and replaced by very pale cinnamon red mingled with 

 some ochraceous scales, the extremities of the nervules being ochraceous, tipped toward 

 the round spots with large, triangular, scarcely sagittate, black spots. Hind loings : 

 extreme base pale cinnamon red, with a white spot generally bordered with black be- 

 tween each of the principal nervures at their origin ; at about two-fifths the distance 

 from the base, a broad transverse band of pale cinnamon red crosses the wing, dusted 

 profusely with ochraceous or white scales at its outer and inner limits, and especially 

 ■where it crosses the spaces between the principal nervures ; it is bordered within and 

 without with black ; the inner black border starts from the costal nervure opposite its 

 divarication from the subcostal, crosses the interspace obliquely inward, takes a sweep- 

 ing curve along the outer border of the cell back a little past the divarication of the 

 median nervure, and crosses to the inner border by two crescents opening inward ; the 

 exterior border is composed of three parts : the first starts from the middle of the cos- 

 tal border and crosses the costo-subcostal interspace in a straight line parallel to the 

 inner border; the second starts from the subcostal nervure opposite the origin of the 

 first, and crosses in a straight, sometimes broken, line the next two interspaces, nearly 

 at right angles to the nervures ; the third, starting from the lowest branch of the sub- 

 costal nervure, passes to the inner border by a series of crescents opening outward, 



