. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. 296 THK ni'JTKHl' G • NKW briiwn, tinted sonu'tiiiK's with ciiiiiniiioiicoi • I'riiijio lis nhovc; l)ut a little less wliite. Ilinil iriiiiis ivitli il iiie>liil lielt exactly similar to that of the iiiiper surface except in beiii!^ sli-ihtly brDadci'; within this l) wiii^ is dark, rich, olivaccDiis brown, more or less enlivened with red'.isli orange cst subcostal inter- space; a similar ol)liiine, oval, slii;l
. The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada [microform] : with special reference to New England. Butterflies; Butterflies; Papillons; Papillons. 296 THK ni'JTKHl' G • NKW briiwn, tinted sonu'tiiiK's with ciiiiiniiioiicoi • I'riiijio lis nhovc; l)ut a little less wliite. Ilinil iriiiiis ivitli il iiie>liil lielt exactly similar to that of the iiiiper surface except in beiii!^ sli-ihtly brDadci'; within this l) wiii^ is dark, rich, olivaccDiis brown, more or less enlivened with red'.isli orange cst subcostal inter- space; a similar ol)liiine, oval, slii;litly snniUer spot, barely bordered witli black in the costo-sul)costal interspace, directly al)ove or a little outside of that in the middle of the cell: a few bluish scah^s, occasionally clustered in spots, arc usually scattered about the cell and near the l)ase of the c<istal nervnre; sometimes they are of a nu'tallic purplish blue, and sometiuies they liedoud nearly tlie whole basi' of the win^; costal maritin at base broadly nnir4;ineti willi dark oraufre red; beyonil the bi'lt tl:e winjj; is l)urplish black, witli a donl)le row of curved streaks, like thos(! of the upper surface but slisiitly larger; in each interspace between these and the mesial belt there is a larse, roumlish, dark orange red spot, occupying; nearly all the inter- mediate si)a<'e, sometimes only two-thirds as broad as the interspaces but usually nearly touchiui? the m-rvules, and occasionally uniting to form a continuous baiul: frlniie as above, exceptini;; that the black occupies about the same amomit of space as the white does, and in the snbniedio-internal interspace is white, Abilonu'u purplisli lilack, lielow witli l)road medio-ventral ami narrow latero-veu- tral stripes of white, tlie Hu'iner liroadcr at III'' apices tliaii ;it tlie bases of the se;j:- mi'Uts. .\ppenilai;es of male (33 : !l) : hook of upper oruaii scarcely ciirvi'd and i'i|iial on the basal tlircii-fonrths,
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