1808 BUTTERFLIES BEYOND NEW ENGLAND. 



BRENTHIS CHARICLEA. 



Papilio chariclea Schneid., Neuest. mag. 98 (1831). 

 ent., v: 588 (1794). Argynnis arctica Zett., Ins. Lapp., 899 



Brenthis chariclea Scudd., Proc. Bost. soc. (1840). 

 nat. hist., xvii : 297-299 (1875). Argynnis hoisduvalii Somm., Boisd. Icon • 



fFapilio tullia 0. Fabr., Faun, groenl., 192 L^p., i: 98, pi. 20, figs. .5-0 (1832). 

 (17g0). Argynnis freya Edw., iu his Catalogues. 



.i'J/eii7aeato?-(/wt'?ii!(sCurt.,RosB.voy.,app., [Not. Pap.freija Thunb.] 



Imago. Head and front of thorax covered with fulvous hairs ; the upper surface of 

 thorax and abdomen with brownish hairs, interspersed witli fulvous upon the sides of 

 the abdomen ; below pale yellowish ; palpi with pale hairs below, mingled fulvous and 

 black upon the tip; stalk of antennae white below, black above, with fulvous annula- 

 tions at the extremity of the joints; club of antennae black with narrow fulvous an- 

 nulations. 



Wings with the upper surface deep fulvous marked with black, with black nervures. 

 Fore wings with a zigzag, wavy, occasionally broken band of moderate width, ex- 

 tending transversely across the wing, its inner edge starting at the middle of the cos- 

 tal border and terminating at the middle of the internal border; the general direction 

 of the first third being outward, the second third nearly at right angles inward, the 

 last third outward again nearly parallel to the first, but not turned so much outward ; 

 the band is formed, first, of a straight belt more or less irregular in outline, directed 

 toward a point a little more than two-thirds the distance down the outer border, reach- 

 ing the median uervure; second, either of two very deep lunules, the lower he-aviest 

 limb being parallel to the first band, or of two short, straight bands slightly connected 

 above, having the same general direction, the lunules or bands occupying the next two 

 interspaces; and third, of a brojid shallow lunule or band occupying the next inter- 

 space and directed at right angles to the lower branch of the median nervure ; the inner 

 border behind the submedian nervure is up to this point du.sky, as is the whole base of 

 the wing nearly up to the divarication of the median nervure; within the mesial Ijand 

 there are three equidistant, transverse bands crossing the cell, and there is another short 

 transverse blotch below the median nervure starting from between the two innermost of 

 those above; the outer edge of the wing is more or less narrowly bordered with black, 

 next to which is a row of triangular, slightly arrow-head shaped Ijlack spots, enclos- 

 ing between it and the border a row of small, transverse, fulvous spots, which 

 are usually larger and sometimes continuous at the apex ; midway between the band of 

 triangular spots and the mesial band is a slightly curving row of rather large, some- 

 times squarish spots, the lower one of which falls a little outside the curve, and the 

 upper ones merge at the tip into the band of triangular spots ; midway between this 

 row and the mesial band, there is on the costal border a triangular patch, extending, 

 parallel to the mesial band, to the lower branch of the subcostal uervure. Hind wings : 

 the mesial band is directed first across the subcostal nervules at right angles to them, 

 then sharply outward, reaching the upper branch of the median nervure at two-thirds 

 the distance from the base, whence it turns toward the inner border with a sharply 

 indented zigzag course, directed a little outward toward the anal angle ; the whole base of 

 the wing within this band is dusky, sometimes quite black, with the exception of from 

 three to five irregularly shaped, variously sized, but generally small, fulvous spots 

 upon the upper outer half ; the markings upon the apical half of the wing are almost 

 exactly as on the fore wings, except that the curving row of round spots has a deeper 

 curve, the spots are more universally round, and increase in size toward the anal angle. 

 The fringe of both wings is alternately light and dark brown. 



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

 surface with the mesial band repeated, but with less distinctness, though there is no 

 duskiness at the base, and the short streak below the median nervure just before its 

 divarication meets a straight band coming at right angles from the junction of the 



