78 BUTTERFLIES OF MAINE. 
an inch. Head, greenish brown. Body flattened, sloping 
abruptly at the sides. Color, velvet-green, with a darker 
colored dorsal stripe. The anterior edge of second segment, 
yellowish brown with a few darker dots; the middle segment 
laterally striped with two or three faint yellow oblique lines, 
and the last two segments have each a lateral yellow patch, 
and there is a faint yellow basal line from the fifth to the ter- 
minal segments. Under surface, bluish-green. 
The larva is .87 of an inch long, nearly oval, and with the 
head case rounded. The body is dark reddish brown, with 
black markings, and thickly covered with fine hairs. The 
anterior segments have many black patches on them, and 
there is a dark ventral line from the sixth to the twelfth seg- 
ments. 
Prof. S. I. Smith, who very kiadly sent mea list of the 
butterflies which he has taken at, or in the vicinity of Nor- 
way, Me., informs me.that he captured a single specimen 
of this rare species in Norway. 
Fig. 26. Thecla calanus (nat. size; under surface on left). 
40. THECLA CALANUS, Hueb. 
Thec'-la cal’-a-nus. 
Expanse of wings, one inch and a quarter. 
Upper side of the wings, dark brown with brassy green 
reflections. Hind wings with two very unequal, thread-like 
tails, the lower one being longest and edged with white. 
Base of fringes, from anal angle to the lower tail, white, and 
