Genus Atalopedes 
greatly enlarged, pale, and standing out boldly upon the dark 
ground-color. The hind wings are pale brown on the inner mar¬ 
gin. Expanse, 6 , i.ioinch; $, 1.25 inch. 
Early Stages .—These have been elaborately described by 
Scudder. The caterpillar feeds on grasses, making a tubular nest 
for itself among the leaves. 
The insect ranges through southern Canada and New Eng¬ 
land to Pennsylvania, and westward to Wisconsin. 
Genus ATALOPEDES, Scudder 
Butterfly .—Antennae short, less than half the length of the 
costa; club short, stout, crooked just at the end; the palpi as in 
the preceding genus. The cut shows the neuration. The only 
mark of distinction between this genus and the 
two genera that follow is found in the shape of 
the discal stigma on the wing of the male, which 
is described as follows by Dr. Scudder: “ Discal 
stigma in male consisting of, first, a longitu¬ 
dinal streak at base of middle median interspace, 
of shining black, recurved rods; second, of a 
semilunar field of dead-black erect rods in the 
lowest median interspace, overhung above by 
long, curving scales; followed below by a short, 
small striga of shining black scales, and outside 
by a large field of erect, loosely compacted 
scales.” 
Fig. 168.—Neu¬ 
ration of the genus 
Atalopedes , en¬ 
larged. 
Egg.— Hemispherical, covered with a network of delicate raised 
lines describing small polygons over the surface; minutely 
punctate. 
Caterpillar.— Cylindrical, tapering backward and forward; 
head large; the neck less constricted than in the genus Eudamus 
or in the genus Thanaos; dark in color. 
Chrysalis .— The chrysalis is slender, cylindrical, a little 
humped upon the thorax, with the tongue-sheath free and pro¬ 
jecting to the end of the fifth abdominal segment. 
(1) Atalopedes huron, Edwards, Plate XLVI, Fig. 4, 6 ; 
Fig. 5, ? ; Plate VI, Figs. 43, 47, chrysalis (The Sachem* 
Butterfly .—The upper side of the wings in both sexes is well 
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