THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 45 



LIMOCHORES PONTIAC AND ATRYTONE KUMSKAKA. 



BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



In 1863, Mr. W. H. Edwards described a male Hesperian from 

 Michigan under the name oi Hesperia Fo?itiac, closely resembling the 

 species figured by Boisduval and LeConte, under the name of Arpa, as 

 well as the larger Florida species Edwards subsequently described under 

 the name of Pilatka. In the same paper in which Pontiac was described 

 and immediately preceding it, he described, also from Michigan, a 

 female under the name of Hesperia coiispicua. These two forms were 

 subsequenriy figured in the same volume (II.) of Proceedings of the 

 Entomological Society of Philadelphia, and were recognized as the male 

 and female of the same species, after Prof H. W. Parker had re-described 

 the male (Can. Ent., Ill, 51), referring it to H. conspicua. In his since 

 published lists, Mr, Edwards has classed them as one species under the 

 preferred name of Pontiac. 



In connection herewith I have made two mistakes : First, in identify- 

 ing in 1868 an Iowa species as conspicua and describing the proper male 

 of the same as the then supposed unknown male of conspicua (Trans. 

 Chicago Acad., I., 336) ; and second, the re-description, very briefly, of 

 Pontiac under the name of Hedone Orono (Syst. Rev. Am. Butt., 58), 

 being led astray by my supposition with regard to the Iowa butterfly. I 

 have since given the Iowa butterfly, which belongs to Atrytone, the name 

 Kumskaka, in naming it for others ; but as this name has not been pub- 

 lished, nor the species fully described, I append herewith a full descrip- 

 tion of the same. 



The two butterflies concerned belong to two different genera, one of 

 which {Limochores, to which, and not to Hedone., Pontiac belongs,) has a 

 sexual, velvety dash or stigma on the front wings of the male, wholly 

 wanting in Atrytone, and they can thu'S be readily distinguished. 



Atrytone Kumskaka. 



Hesperia cofispicua, Scudd. nee. Edw. 



Head covered above with mingled greenish-yellow and blackish hairs, 

 the former in excess ; on the inner and outer side of the bases of the 

 antennae a tuft of black hairs ; encircling the hinder part of the eye a 

 series of pale yellow scales ; palpi pale yellow, with a very slight greenish 

 tint, shading into pale orange toward the tip and there interspersed with a 



