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constructs a nest of any sort like some of its congeners. The details 

 respecting the southern and western distribution of this butterfly are still 

 incomplete and its parasites unknown. 



LIST OF ILLUSTliATIONS.-FOLYCHJNIA FAUNUS. 



General. Imago. 



PI. 19, fig. 8. Distribution in North America. PI. 8. tig. 2. Female, under surface. 



88:2. Ichneumon versabili.s, a parasite. <>. Male, both surfaces. 



j^ ^ 14:3. The same. 



r>i ^1 «, .11 -131.,;,, ' 33:16. Male abdominal appendages. 



G7;in. Micropyle. ^^'•^- «Hle view of head and appendages 



enlarged, with details of the structure of 



Caterpillar. ^^^ ,^^^ 



PI. 70, fig. 8. Caterpillar at birth. g^ . ^^ ^,^^^,j,,^ ^^ ,^.,^^j ^^.j,^^. 



74 : 32. Mature. 

 78 : 42-4t). Front view of head in stages i-v. 



3G. Cuticular processes of the food 



, . ,, reservoir. 



86 : 82. Dermal appendage of full grown ^ ^^^ connection of the food resei- 



caterpillar. ^^.j. ^^^^^ stomach. 



Chrysalis. 4.7. >^i,je view of the digestive tract in 



PI. 83: fig. 31. Outline of head, from front. the abdomen, to show the relative size of 



33. Side view. the food reservoir and stomach. 



34. The same in outline. 



35. Front view in outline. 



POLYGONIA GRACILIS.— The hoary comma. 



[The hoary comma (Scudder) ; brown banded comma (Maynard).] 



Grapta gracilis Grote-Rob., Ann. N. Y. Grapta c-argenteum var. Scudd., Proc. 



lye. nat. hist., viii: 432-433 (1867) ;— Streck., Ess. inst.,iii: 169 (1863). 



Lep., 68, pi. 8, figs. 14, 14 (1874); — French, Polygonia faunus var, gracilis Scudd., 



Butt. east. U. S., 189-190 (1886) ;— Mayn., Butt. Bull. Buff. soc". nat. sc, ii : 252 (1875). 



N. E., 14, pi. 2, fig. 15, 15a (1886). Vanessa zephyrus var. a. gracilis Streck., 



Vanessa gracilis Kirb., Syn. catal. Lep., Cat. Am. macrolep., 131 (1878). 

 182(1871). 



Nymphalis gracilis Kirb., Syn. catal. Lep., Figured by Glover, 111. N. A. Lep., pi. 36, 



648(1871). fig. 7; pi. 38, fig. 11, ined. 



Polygonia gracilis Scudd., Syst. rev. Amer. 

 butt., io (1872). 



Two doves upon the selfsame branch. 



Two lilies on a single stem. 

 Two butterflies upon one flower : — 



O happy they who look on them. 

 Who look upon them hand in hand 



Flushed in the rosy summer light ; 

 "Who look upon them hand in hand 



And never give a thought to night. 



Christina Rossetti.— A'o?i(/. 



Imago (3 : 11). Head covered with mingled long, vinons, hoary and olivaceous 

 hairs, the last predominating posteriorly, with a fringe of yellow scales at the hinder 

 borders of the eyes mingled with many ferruginous. Sides of palpi highly variegated 

 with a kaleidoscopic mixture of white, vino-ferruginons and black scales, the last pre- 

 dominating at the base, the first along the edges and hi a line below the middle, the 

 vino-ferruginous apically ; the last joint ferruginous Avith a few black scales. Anten- 

 nae black-brown above, very sparsely flecked with pale scales, naked and testaceous on 

 the inner inferior face, outwardly heavily marked with white, wliich on the basal half 

 of the antenna is mostly confined to the base of the segments, and throughout occu- 

 pies more space at the base than at tlie apex : club black-brown above with a few 

 inconspicuous golden hairs. bl!*tk flecked with ferruginous on the outer lower side. 



