502 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



insect here so rare without a knowledge of the changes in its history in 

 passing from south northward along the Atlantic coast. Meantime the 

 date and place of capture, sex and condition of every specimen taken in 

 New England should be recorded. Especially are observations needed in 

 southern Connecticut and New Jersey. We have no acquaintance with 

 the flight or postures of the butterfly, nor much Avith the habits of the 

 caterpillar, or the place selected for the egg : and while we know that it is 

 attacked by at least two parasites, the rest lies in obscurity. We need also 

 better descriptions of the earliest stages and especially the characteristics 

 of the juvenile caterpillar. 



LIST OF ILLU8TBATI0N8.—JUN0NIA COENIA. 



Egg. Imago. 



PI. 64, fig. 14. Plain. PI. 14, fig. 15. Male, both surfaces. 



Caterpillar. 33:30. Male abdominal appendages. 



PI. 74, fig. 29, 30. Mature caterpillar. 38:14. Neuration. 



78 : 64-66. Front views of liead in stages 53 : 8. Side view of head and appen- 



{y-xi, dages enlarged, Avitli details of tlie 



Chrysalis. structure of tlie legs. 



PI. 83, fig. 56. Side vi"ew in outline. ^1:30. Papdla of tongue. 



57. Dorsal view in outline. General. 



65-67. Side views. PL 21, fig. 2. Distribution in Xortli America. 



TRIBE ARGYNNIDI. 



FRITILLARIES. 



Argynnidi (pars) Stepli. ; Argynnites (pars) Dryades Borkbausen. 



Bfanch.-Brull6 ; Argynnidae (pars) Dup.; Milites (pars) Herbst. 



Argynnitae (pars) Lucas ; Argynnides (pars) Perlati (pars) Latreille. 



Bruand; Argynnoides (pars) Kocb. Spiuosae (pars) Gueu6e. 

 Papiliones nobiles Wein. Yerz. 



Lo, the bright train their radiant wings unfold! 

 "With silver fringed, and freckled o'er with gold: 

 On the gay bosom of some fragrant flower 

 They idly fluttering live their little hour ; 

 Their life all pleasure, and their task all play. 

 All spring their age, and sunshine all their day. 



Mrs. Barbauld. 



. . . from their deepest dells 

 The Dryads come. 



J. Taylor. 



Imago. Head : club of antennae short, subspatulate, very distinctly marked, 

 greatly depressed, scarcely more than twice as long as broad. Palpi large with a 

 bushy mass of often elongated scales, the terminal joint very short, from one-sixth to 

 one-twelfth the length of the penultimate. 



Thorax : first superior subcostal nervule of the fore wings arising before the tip of 

 the cell; the second at or somewhat beyond the tip, occasionally a little before it; the 

 third and fourth beyond ; cell closed in our genera, and the median nervure connected 

 beyond its second divarication with the vein closing it. Precostal nervure of hind 

 wings originating beyond the divarication of the costal and subcostal nervures ; cell 

 closed. Tibiae and tarsi clothed above with spines; terminal tarsal joint furnished 



