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TRIBE NYMPHALIDI. 



WHITE ADMIRALS. 



Nyinphalidi (pars) Steph. ; NymphalidacDup. ; Neptidae Newiii. 



Nymphalitae Luc. ; Nymphalides Kirb. Carunculatae (pars) Guen. 



Archontes (restr.) Herbst, Scudd. Papiliones maculato-fasciati Wieii. Verz. 

 Lliuenitides Butl.; Limenitidae Burm. 



. . . Thou didst drink 

 The stale of horses, and the gilded puddle. 

 Which beasts would cough at. 



Shakksvkark.— Antony and Gleopatra. 



Winged wanderer from clover meadows sweet, 

 Wliere all day lon^ l)eneath a smiling sky 

 You drained the wild-flowers' cups of honey dry 



And heard the drowsy winds their loves repeat, 



What idle zephyr whisijcriiiy deceit 



Has won your heart ainl iriii])ted you to fly 

 Unto this noisy town and vainly pry 



Into the seci'ets of this busy street? 



To me your unexpected presence brings 

 A thought of fragrant pastures, buds and flowers, 

 And sleepy brooks, and cattle in the fold; 

 Or, watching as you soar on trembling wings, 

 I think for those who toil through weary hours 

 You are a type of their uncertain gold. 



Sherman.— tI Butterfly in Wall Street. 



Imago. Head : club of anteuuae very long, so gradually increasing in size as to 

 render the determination of its origin difficult, cylindrical or a little depressed, with 

 four inferior carinations. Palpi slender, with compact, recumbent scales ; terminal 

 joint scarcely one-fifth the length of the middle joint. 



Thorax : first and second superior subcostal nervules of fore wing arising before 

 the tip of the cell ; the third and fourth beyond ; cell closed ; median nervure con- 

 nected opposite its last divarication Avitli the vein closing the cell. Precostal nervixre 

 of hind wing originating opposite the divarication of the subcostal from the costal 

 nei'vure; cell open. No androconia. Five joints to the fore-tarsi in female; apical 

 joint of male terminating in a single median spine; the other joints with spurs in pairs, 

 but no spines ; other tibiae and tarsi destitute of spines above, but with the upper por- 

 tion of the inner surface crowded with irregularly disposed spines; four rows of 

 spines on the under surface of the tei'minal joint of tarsi. 



Abdomen : male appendages ; upper organ about as lai'ge as the lower, bearing a single 

 pointed, curved hook. Clasps large, tapering considerably on the outer half, the upper 

 process apical and spiny, the interior finger originating near the base of the inferior 

 edge, directed upward and surpassing the superior edge of the clasp. 



Egg. Globular, flattened at base and slightly depressed at apex, the whole surface 

 covered with pretty large hexagonal cells, bounded by abrupt elevated walls, emitting 

 at the angles prominent filaments. 



Caterpillar at birth. Papillae of the body conspicuous, some larger than others, 

 the hairs short, slender, tapering and inconspicuous. 



Mature caterpillar. Body unequally developed, being hunched on the second and 

 third thoracic, and to a less degree on the eighth and ninth abdominal segments ; cov- 

 ered with minute, hairless papillae, and with a laterodorsal row of larger compound 

 warts of greatly unequal size, some or all, and especially those of the second thoracic 

 segment, developed as long tuberculate spines, the others forming a raised crown of 

 thickly crowded, short, pointed wartlets. 



Chrysalis. Head projecting beyond, and distinct from the thorax. Base of the 

 wing-cases with but a single tubercle; dorsum of mesothorax regularly rounded, cari- 

 nate; dorsum of abdomen carinate, but on the second segment excessively elevated, so 

 as to form a strongly compressed, rounded prominence; cremaster stout, moderately 

 long. 



