494 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



observant entomologist may often determine a butterfly from a consider- 

 able distance. In the case of the entomologist, however, the decision is 

 more difficult, since there are such rapid replacements of one species by 

 another throughout the summer that direct comparison of the flight of 

 similar species is often impossible. 



JUNONIA COENIA.— The buckeye. 



[The buckeye (Behreus) ; the buckeye butterfly (Maynard) ; Laviuia butterfly (Harris); the 

 hirge eyed Junouia (Scudder).] 



Junonia coenia Hiibn., Samnil. exot. ix: 295, 318-319 (1819). 



schmett., Lep. i, Pap. i, Nymph, vi, Hamadr. Cynthia lavinia Harr., Hitchc. Rep., 590 



B., simpl. 4, figs. 1-4 (1806) ;— Morr., Syu. Lep. (1833). 



N. Amer. 61-62 (1862) ;—Scudd., Psyche, ii: t/jtnonja iawini'aEdw., Syn. N. Amer. butt., 



276-277 (1880) ;— Fern., Butt. Me., 62 (1884) ;— 21 (1871) ;— Middl., Rep. ins. 111., x : 87 (1881) ;— 



Freuch, Butt. east. U.S., 200-202, fig. 56 (1886). Mayn., Butt. N. E., 20-21, pi. 3, figs. 23, 23a 



Vanessa coenia Boisd.-LeC, L6p. Aiu6r. (1886). 



sept., 182-184, pi. 49, figs. 1-4 (1833). Figured by Abbot, Draw. ins. Geo. Oemler 



Papilio orythia Smith- Abb., Lep. ins. Ga., Coll. Bost. soc. nat. hist., 14;— Glov. 111. N. A. 



i: 15-16, pi. 8 (1797) ;— Abb., Draw. ins. Ga. Lep., pi. 33, fig. 10, ined. 



Brit, mus., vi : 30, figs. 30-31 ; xvi : 8, tab. 28. [Not Pap. laviuia Cram., nor Pap. orithya 



Vanessa lariniaipars) God., Encycl. m6th. , Linn.] 



I've watched you now a full half hour, 

 Self-poised upon that yellow flower ; 

 And, little butterfly! indeed 

 I know not if you sleep or feed. 

 How motionless! — not frozen seas 

 More motionless ! and then 

 "WTiat joy awaits you, when the breeze 

 Hatli found you out among the trees, 

 And calls you forth again ! 



Wordsworth.— To a Butterfly. 



Imago (14: 15)- Head covered with brownish white and pale tawny hairs, below 

 and behmd the lower half of the eyes with whitish hairs and scales, behind the upper 

 half of the eyes with pale brownish scales, followed by tawny hairs ; palpi beneath and 

 on the basal portion of the sides dull white ; from the middle of the outside of the mid- 

 dle joint outward a broadening patch of rather pale brown, extending over the whole 

 exposed upper surface, with a few intermingled ruddy scales ; apical joint still darker 

 on the sides and above ; antennae clay-broAvn above and on sides, whitish beneath, along 

 the inner inferior surface bare in a gradually increasing luteous stripe, commencing 

 with a broken line in the middle of the basal half, and increasing to the whole width 

 of the antenna at the base of the club ; club blackish above, blackish fuscous below, 

 the basal third greenish clay In-own above, luteous below, the apical two joints more 

 or less and interruptedly luteous; papillae of tongue (61: 30) long oval, not more 

 than half as broad again in the middle as at the ends, four or five times as long as 

 broad, fully as long as half the width of the tongue, the apical rim entire, situated 

 only on the extreme tapering apex of the tongue, in a very open row down the middle 

 of the under side of each maxilla, giving room for several more between each pair. 



Thorax covered above with mouse-brown and fulvo-broAvnish hairs, sometimes with an 

 olivaceous tinge, beneath with brownish wliite or clay brown, sometimes tinged with 

 vinous; all the legs uniform clay brown, the fore legs perhaps slightly paler ; spines 

 black; spurs uniform luteous; claws luteous, growing dusky toward the tip; paro- 

 nychia similar to the claws l)nt sometimes blackish ; pulvillus black. 



Above fore unngs blackish brown, the broadly sinuous limit of the basal half, 

 a little beyond the last divarication of the median nervure, very heavily powdered 



