348 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



in the north. It is especially probably that it will be found in the White 

 Mountain district. The history of the butterfly after July is an absolute 

 blank at present, and we know nothing of the egg, or the larval habits, and 

 scarcely anything of any distinctive peculiarities of the butterfly. A 

 knowledge of its range in the middle of North America (north of our line, 

 probably) is highly desirable. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.-POLYdONIA SATYBUS. 



Caterpillar. Imago. 



Plate 74, fig. 33. Mostly dorsal view. Plate 14, fig. 1. Male, both surfaces. 



Chrysalis. 14. Female, under surface. 



Plate 83, fig. 41. Side view. 33:32. Male, abdominal appendages. 



42. Front view in outline. General. 



Plate 20, fig. 1. Distribution in North America. 



GROUP II (progne). 



Antennae usually with 38 joints (f annus 41) ; subcostal dentation of margin of l)ind 

 wings very prominent. Eggs generally laid singly on upper surfaces of leaves. Mark- 

 ings of caterpillars generally disposed in dorsal masses or blotches ; always living 

 solitary and exposed on under surfaces of leaves. Chrysalis with ocellar tubercles 

 subcylindrical, obliquely truncate, the laterodorsal tubercles of fourth abdominal seg- 

 ment not strikingly larger than the others. 



Species : f aunus, gracilis, progne. 



POLYG-ONIA FAUNUS.— The green comma. 



[The green comma (Gosse) ; the cinnamon butterfly (Ross) ; green-banded comma butterfly 



(Maynard)]. 



Grapta fatinus Edw., Proc. Acad. uat. sc. Polygo7iia f aunus Scudd.,Sjst. rev. Amer. 



Philad.,1862: 222-223(1862); Proc.Entom.soc. butt., 10 (1872); Butt., 136-137, figs. .54. 126 



Pliilad., i: 182-184 (1862); Butt. N. A., i. (1881). 



Grapta 1, figs. 1-4 (1870) ; Can. ent., xix: 3-4 Grapta progne ? Gosse, Can. nat., 96, 278 



(1887) ;— Lintn., Proc. Entom. soc. Philad., iii : (1840). 



57 (1864) ;— Caulf., Can. ent., vii : 49-50 (1875) ; Grapta c-argentenm Belt, Trans. Nova Sc. 



—French, Rep. ins. 111., vii : 152 (1878) ; Butt. inst. uat. sc, ii: 90-91 (1868?)- 



east. U.S., 187-188, fig. 52 (1886) ; — Middl., Vanessa c-album Streck., Cut. Am. )nacro- 



Rep. ins. 111., x : 84 (1881) ;— Fern., Butt. Me., lep., 129-130 (1878). 



54-55, figs. 17-18 (1884);— Mayn., Butt. N. E., Papilio Abb., Draw. ins. Ga. Brit. 



13, pi. 2, figs. 14, 14a (1886). mus., vi : 39, fig. 9. 



Vanessa fauniis Kirb.,Syn. catal. Lep., 182 Figured by Glover, 111. N. A. Lep., pi. 38, 



(1871) fig- 12, ined. 



Nymphalis faunus Kirb., Syn. catal. Lep., [Not Pap. progne Cram., nor Grapta c-argeii- 



648 (1871). teum Kirb., nor Pap. c-albura Linn.] 



Voici le papillon Faune 

 Noir et jauue. 

 Gerard de Nerval. 



Imago (3:2.6; 14:8). Head covered above behind the antennae with olivaceous 

 hairs ; in front with mingled black, whitish and dusky ferruginous ones ; outside of the 

 base of the antennae a slight tuft of yellowish white hairs ; the sides of the head 

 behind the eye with mingled whitish, very pale olivaceous and dusky scales; palpi on 

 basal half of outer side dull white, very prettily variegated with scattered black and 

 dark ferruginous scales, the latter becoming more frequent toward the middle and 



