302 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE 



134. Pamphila Massasoit, Scud. 



Expanse of wings from 1.1 to 1.4 inches. 



Male. — Upper surface blackish brown, with a slight 

 violet reflection on the fore wings; three small, sub- 

 obsolete, yellow, intervenular dots in a row near the 

 costa beyond the cell, and occasionally a faint, small, 

 yellowish spot or two on the middle of the hind wings. 

 Fringe slightly paler, yellowish round the anal angle. 



Under side of fore wings about the same color as the 

 upper, the costal and outer margin tawny orange-yellow, 

 the spots of the upper side repeated with more distinct- 

 ness ; a few scales in two small patches near the middle. 

 Basal color of hind wings blackish brown, but so washed 

 with tawny orange as to be almost that color, paler than 

 the female. Across the wing, a little beyond the middle, 

 is a series of six pale yellow spots ; the first indistinct ; 

 the second nearly square, with the outer end rounded ; 

 the third oblong, reaching from near the margin to the 

 middle of the cell, a faint brown bar at the end of the 

 cell ; the fourth and fifth oblong, one-third the length of 

 the third ; the sixth, like the first, subobsolete. Body, 

 head, and antennae, above, the color of the upper surface ; 

 below, pale whitish yellow. 



Female. — Above, the markings of the under side show 

 more plainly than in the males ; the yellow of the under 

 side is darker, and the fourth and fifth spots on the under 

 side are pointed towards the base and somewhat blended 

 with the third. 



Food-plant and larva unknown. 



Eastern and Middle States, Nebraska, Colorado, 

 Texas. (See Addenda.) 



