. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. 282 THE BUTTKKFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. ':%'' m. BciipaUi, tlie -wina-i are dark lustrous purplisli 1)lufi, iioncrally tlnjiod .stroiifrly In part with iiroenisli, cspeeially in tlio cell, ol)scnre(i in places, and especially in the inter- spaces of the hind wings, with tints varying from dark ;y snutl' color to obscure tawny or even dull oranije, decked with dark brown, most dis- tinctly in the female; the nervures .always blue black. Fitc
. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. 282 THE BUTTKKFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. ':%'' m. BciipaUi, tlie -wina-i are dark lustrous purplisli 1)lufi, iioncrally tlnjiod .stroiifrly In part with iiroenisli, cspeeially in tlio cell, ol)scnre(i in places, and especially in the inter- spaces of the hind wings, with tints varying from dark ;y snutl' color to obscure tawny or even dull oranije, decked with dark brown, most dis- tinctly in the female; the nervures .always blue black. Fitc imujK: The whitish streak near the nuddle of the costal maririn of the upper surface is repeated beneath, and the apex of the wins; from the middle of this to the middle of the central median nervnlo and extendinjr us far as the snlmiarjiinal markings is olivaceous slate brown, enlivened with a few tawny atoms. In the centre of the cell is a ronndish, at the extremity of the cell a long, transverse, bright reddish, orange spot, broadly encircled with velvety black; on either side of the tirst, bordering the subcostal nervuro, is a small delicate pale blue patch, the outer tlie smaller; there is a submarginal, ilonl)le row of pale blue transverse stripes, a pair in each interspace, the inner row more curved and sliglitly paler, the outer sliglitly broken in the middle of eai^li interspace; these are followed interiorly by a row of (piadrate, pale, rusty orange sjMits in the median and most of the subcostal interspaces, correspoiuling to those sometimes appearing above; and these again, on the upper half of tlie wing, by some nue(|ual whitish spots, correspond- ing again to those ou the \ipper surface and often, as tlu're, extending faintly on the lower interspaees; there is a streak of dnll orange on tlu^ costal margin next the base of the wing; fringe as above. Tlie A/hi; iri''have tin'ee little patches of scattered bine scales at the base of tin; wing, one enclosed in the
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