. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies. 1752 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. the subcosto-median interspace iiulistiuctly broken by the longitudinal fold in the middle of the interspace, the other two in the median interspaces, the lower having its outer edge at the centre of the interspace; the fringe is uniform pale honey yellow, partially covered on basal fourth with brownish fuscous, the whole partially obscured by fuscous along the inner margin. Beneath, dull snuff brown, the disc of the fore wings, from
. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies. 1752 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. the subcosto-median interspace iiulistiuctly broken by the longitudinal fold in the middle of the interspace, the other two in the median interspaces, the lower having its outer edge at the centre of the interspace; the fringe is uniform pale honey yellow, partially covered on basal fourth with brownish fuscous, the whole partially obscured by fuscous along the inner margin. Beneath, dull snuff brown, the disc of the fore wings, from the upper limit of the cell to the inner border and reaching so far as to include the outer of the large vitreous spots and from thence do\ynward to the tip of the inner margin, brown, darker in the middle of the wing. Fore wiiifjs with the same vitreous spots as above, a little more distinct; fringe nearly uniform -with the neighboring parts of the wing, the apL»x above the lower median nervnle tipped with brown. Hind wlnys uniform, with the same vitreous spots as on the upper surface, the upper more distinctly divided. Fringe, with the basal one-third of the portion above the lower median nervule and the whole of that along the inner margin of the color of the wing, the rest partaking more of the color of the upper surface of the fringe. Abdomen above dark brown, covered with many fulvous hairs; beneath pale yel- lowish white, interrupted by trausverse, indistinct bars of brownish fuscous, near the bases of the segments; clasps of male furnished with yellowish hairs. The upper orgau of the male appendages (37 : 34) has the hook scarcely longer than the centrum, taper- ing regularly and rapidly to a blunt point; basal half with a heavy compressed ridge; lateral arms smaller than the hook and curved a little in a reverse sense. Clasps with the inferior margin slightly and roundly excised near the middle, the posterior margin neai-ly straight and the upper posterior angle produ
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