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SECTION I. 



Erjfj vertically ribbed and cross-lined. Catcrpillnr at hirth\\M\\ bent cnticnlarappen- 

 datres and a head uniformly rounded above. Mature aUcrpUlar comparatively stout, 

 witli a head not much or not at all larjier than the sejjments behind it, and with no 

 summit tul)ercles. Cliri/saUs -with a regularly rounded niesonotum and the head not 

 prominent. InuKja with lower extremity of cell of fore wing strongly extended out- 

 ward ; base of middle median uervule of hind wing scarcely if at all nearer the outer 

 than the inner nervule. 



Gkxkk.v : Oeneis, Cercyonis. 



OENEIS HUBNER. 



Oenei.s Hiibn., Sy.st. verz. belv. schmett., 58 Chionol)as Boi.sd., Icon. hist. L(5p. Eur., 182 

 (1816). (1832). 



Type,—PapiUo noma Esper* 



We arc tougher, l>rother, 

 Than you can put us to't. 



SiiAKKSi'K.vuK.— Winter^s Tale. 



In lonely wastes, 

 "WHien next the sunshine makes them beautiful, 

 Gay troops of butterflies shall light to drink 

 At the replenished hollows of the rock. 



Bkyant.— J. Eain Drearn. 



Imago (52 : 0). Head small, tufted with longer and shorter, pretty equally distri- 

 buted hairs; front full, curving on every side, protuberant in the middle below, nar- 

 rower than the eye, perhaps broader than high, terminating rather squarely above at 

 the anterior base of the antennae ; lower edge rather abrupt, pretty well rounded ; 

 vertex very short, transverse, somewhat protubei'aut, the posterior edge slightly con- 

 vex, the anterior concave at the sides, convex in the middle; flanks moderately full; 

 upper border of the eye scarcely angulated opposite the anterior edge of the vertex. 

 Eyes of moderate size, pretty full, naked. Antennae inserted slightly in advance of 

 the middle of the head, in a deep, broad pit disconnecting the front and vertex, the 

 interior bases of the antennae meeting each other ; composed of from thirty-seven to 

 thirty-nine joints ; considerably longer than the abdomen, very graduallj^ and constantly 

 increasing in size from about the middle, so as to make it diflicult to mark any portion 

 as the club; the last four joints diminish slightly in size, terminating in an abrupt cone; 

 the apical half is cylindrical, scarcely depressed and minutely carinate along the under 

 surface. Palpi slender, about twice as long as the eye, the apical joint one-fourth as 

 long as the middle joint; profusely clothed beneath with long, above with short hairs, 

 all placed in a vertical plane, excepting a few near the base, which tend in a lateral 

 direction. 



Protlioracic lobes very small, wedge-shaped, narrowing ilownwards, twice as broad 

 as high, and upon the summit less than half as long as high, of the same height and of 

 the same length throughout, excepting that the lateral ends are well rounded ofl'. 

 Tatagia not very large, but little convex, the posterior scarcely longer than the de- 

 scending lobe ; both broad and pretty broadly rounded. 



Fore Avings (38 : 5) somewhat produced at tlie apex and abljreviated at the lower outer 

 angle; costal ])or(ler a little convex at l)ase and tip, but lietween them nearly straight; 

 outer border but slightly convex above the middle median nervule; below that receding 

 stronglv ; inner border straight. Costal nervure not very much swollen, diminislung 



