210 WM. H. EDWARDS. 



fTodart and Harris) ; across the disk of primaries a nearly straight, 

 narrow band of dark brown spots, very narrowly edged without by 

 white ; this band is continuous except that the two spots in the second 

 and third median interspaces are slightly lunulate and separated; par- 

 allel to the margin is a second band of faint spots, of dark brown, 

 nearly obsolete at each extremity ; on the inner edge of the three or 

 four middle and most distinct of these spots are a few white scales, 

 scarcely noticeable without a glass. 



Secondaries have a discal row of spots like those of primaries, but 

 separated, forming a nearly straight line (the two middle spots only 

 being outside the line) from the eosta to a point just above the black 

 space that surmounts the blue patch, then turning towards abdominal 

 margin in a zigzag course forming the letter W, the last limb of which 

 is the longer and reaches the extreme margin ; hind margin edged by a 

 fine whitish line and bordered by a row of spots occupying the inter- 

 spaces, each of which is edged above with a curved black line on which 

 is a second bluish-white; the four spots nest apex almost obsolete. 

 merely showing a darker tinge than the ground color, and on these 

 the black crescents are not distinct and the white line is represented 

 by a few scales only ; the fifth spot a shiide darker than the preceeding 

 and edged above with a narrow patch of orange-red; the sixth is 

 black with a broad red arch between it and the black line ; beyond 

 the tail a large patcli of blue scales on a black ground which it does 

 not wholly cover, leaving above the blue a small black spot on which 

 are a few red scales; at the angle a rounded black spot narrowly edged 

 above with white, between which and the black and white lines, which 

 here are not crescent, is a red space. 



Body above fuscous, beneath, abdomen ashy-brown, thoral blue-grey; 

 legs white and black ; palpi white tipped with black ; antenna3 annula- 

 ted black and white ; club black tipped with, ferruginous. 



From a single specimen taken by Mr. E. B. Reed, of London, Can- 

 ada, at Port Stanley, Ontario, in July, 1868. 



This species is allied to T. hmniili, Harris, (^Hi/perici Bois. and Lee), 

 but difiers in several respects ; especially in the color of under surface, 

 in the absence of a fulvous border to the discal lines in each wing, in 

 the conspicious blue patch and red and black submarginal crescents ; 

 the tails of humuli have twice the length, also, the shorter of the two 

 being twice as long as the longest in the present species, while in the 

 latter the second tail is a mere point. A figure of T. Ontario will be 

 siveu in the " Butterflies of North America." 



