344 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



POLYGONIA SATYRUS.— The wandering comma. 



Vanessa satyrus Streck., Cat. Am. macro- polygonia s.vtyrus marsyas. 



lep., 131 (1878). Grapta marsyas Ed w., Trans. Ain.eut. soc, 



arapta satyrus mw., Rev. cat. diuru. Lej.., {„. jg (jg^o). g^tt, N. A., ii, pi. Grapta 3, 



3^(18^^)- figs. 5-3(1875), 



POLYGONIA SATYRUS SATYRUS. Nymplialis marsyas Kirb., Syn. cat. Lep., 



Grapta satyrus Edw., Trans. Am. ent. soc, 648 (1871). 



ii: 374(1869)"; Butt. N. A., i, pi. Grapta 6, Polygonia mam/«s Scudd., Bull. Bull", soc. 



figs. 1-4 (1872) ;— H. Edw., Pac. coast Lep., ii : »at. sc, ii : 252 (1875). 



8-9 (1873). Vanessa satyrus var. marsyas Streck., Cat. 



Nymphalis sattjrus Kirb., Syn. eat. Lep., Am. maerolep., 131 (1878). 



648 (1872). %* Marsyas is unknown in the east, and is 



Polygonia satyrus Scudd., Bull. Butt", soc. therefore not described below. 

 nat. sc.,ii: 252(1875). 



As when Zephyr bids 

 A little breeze to creep between the fans 

 Of careless butterflies. 



Keats. — Endymion. 



Imago (14:1, 14). Head covered with long ferruginous aud olivaceous hairs, 

 the latter predominating along the middle, tlie former at the sides, mingled next the 

 outer bases of the antennae Avith yellow hairs ; behind the eyes a fringe of mingled 

 ferruginous, dusky ferruginous aud yellow scales. Sides of palpi pale bulT on the 

 basal half with scattered ferruginous hairs, the apical joint dark ferruginous, extend- 

 ing baseward in a tongue along the upper part of the middle joint as far as the eye, 

 the upper edge nevertlieless buft", and a line along tlie inferior edge of the fringe 

 ferruginous; antennae black-broAvn above, feebly flecked with scattered, dull, pale 

 scales, naked and testaceous along the inner side, beneath white in triangular patches, 

 as long as the joints, having their apices at tlie tips, or only on basal half, the apical 

 black-brown; club black-brown above, more abundantly and distinctly flecked with 

 yellow, white and ferruginous scales, Avitliin and beneath naked, bright castaneous, 

 all of the last three joints naked, luteous. Tongue luteous at base, with the sides 

 infuscated, beyond blackish laterally. 



Thorax covered above witli silky olivaceous and greenish-gray hairs, beneatli with 

 mingled yellowish white and pale ferruginous hairs, the latter predominating. Fore 

 legs with similar hairs, but also clothed with velvety black scales down the middle, 

 and with pale buft' and silvery white scales on the sides ; other femora heavily clotlied 

 Avith mingled tawny and dark ferruginous scales, flecked -with pale scales of various 

 tints, and especially of ten fringed Avith a line of yellow scales along the loAver inner 

 edge; tibiae and tarsi uniform pale buft". Spines, spurs and claAvs castaneous. the 

 last deepest ; paronychia pale castaneous ; pulvillus black. 



Wings above rather light fulvous orange, deepening tOAvard tlie base, marked Avitli 

 black and fuscous or fusco-f erruginous. Fore wings with the upper portion of the 

 outer border slightly concave, the subcostal dentation distinctly less than rectangular, 

 that at the tip of the loAver median nervule hardly less prominent, sometimes not more 

 than rectangular, the whole outer margin distinctly crenulate. The costal edge is 

 indistinctly yelloAv, rather inconspicuously interrupted Avith black on the basal half. 

 In the cell and the interspaces beloAV it are black spots, Avhich exactly repeat those of 

 P. comma, excepting tliose of the lower median interspace, the outer of Avhich is 

 usually rectangular in form, aud the inner, at the extreme base, larger and more 'dis- 

 tinct than in comma, where it often is almost absent; here it is sometimes almost as 

 large as that beloAV it. The outer dark margin is precisely as in comma, excepting 

 that it is nearly obscured by grayish beloAv the loAver median nervule, or at least 

 below the middle of the medio-submedian interspace. The markings at the apex of 

 the wings, Avithin the dark liorder, are also exactly as in comma, excepting that the 



