506 THE BUTTERFLIES OF XEW ENGLAND. 



EUPTOIETA DOUBLEDAY. 



Euptoieta Doubl., Gen. Diurn. Lep., i : 168. Type. — Fapilio Claudia Cram. 



. . . And the busy fans 

 Among the gayly dressed and perfumed ladies 

 Fluttered like butterflies among the flowers. 



Longfellow.— T'/ie Spanish Student. 



Imago (53:3). Head large, pretty densely clothed with longer or shorter hairs. 

 Front considerably broader than high, moderately and pretty uniformly full, scarcely 

 surpassing the front of the eyes, above uniformly depressed, the middle of the upper 

 border projecting broadly between the antennae and terminating abruptly and squarely 

 in a shallow, transverse channel; lower border well rounded. Vertex very large, 

 about twice as broad as long, very tumid, slightly and uniformly elevated above the 

 upper level of the eye, the posterior border broadly rounded and slightly flattened in 

 the middle, the anterior croAvding between the antennae and forming a portion of the 

 shelving channel between them. Eyes pretty large, pretty full, naked. Antennae in- 

 serted slightly in advance of the middle of the summit, in deep pits, separated by a 

 space nearly equal to the width of the base of one of them, but connected by a trans- 

 verse gutter with shelving sides, externallj'^ crowded close to the margin of the eyes; 

 considei'ably longer than the abdomen, composed of forty-three joints of which the 

 last ten or eleven form the club, which is strongly compressed, ovate or subspatulate, 

 increashig gradually in diameter at its origin, very broadly rounded at the tip, the last 

 four joints entering into the diminution of size, scarcely more than tAvice as long as 

 broad, Ave times broader than the stalk, the terminal joint with a scarcely noticeable 

 conical tip. Palpi pretty large, scarcely twice as long as the eye, stout, the terminal 

 joint not more than half as long as the penultimate and only clothed slightly with ap- 

 pressed scales ; remainder of the palpi very heavily clothed with erect scales, giving 

 it a massive appearance, and also with long, erect, slender hairs upon the upper and 

 lower surface, directed in a vertical plane. 



Pro thoracic lobes pretty large, straight, tumid, ends well rounded, the outer but 

 little smaller than the inner, four times as broad as long and apparently higher than 

 broad, the upper surface straight and those of the two lobes at right angles to each 

 other. Patagialong and slender, fully three times as long as broad, moderately broad 

 at base, the posterior lobe continued backward as a rather broad, gently narrowing, 

 slightly sinuous blade, minutely subfalcate at the tip, the outer border being a little 

 concave in the middle, convex just beyond, and then nearly straight to the tip, but 

 slightly excised ; the inner border has a very broad, gentle curve, slightly sinuous ; 

 tip bluntly rounded, exteriorly angulated. 



Fore wings (39 : 4) nearly twice as long as broad, the costal margin broadly convex 

 on the basal third, very slightly and roundly bent in the middle of the basal half, be- 

 yond which it is scarcely convex, the apex more rounded, the apical angle well rounded ; 

 outer margin with the upper half produced somewhat, rather more in the $ than in 

 the $ , as far as the upper median nervule strongly and pretty regularly convex, below 

 it scarcely concave and directed at an angle of about 45° with the middle of the costal 

 margin; inner margin straight, slightly convex in the middle of the basal half, the 

 outer angle abrupt, scarcely rounded, a little more than a right angle. First superior 

 subcostal nervule arising but shortly before the tip of the upper margin of the cell ; 

 the second as far beyond the same as the base of the fourth is from the outer border of 

 the wing ; the third nearly midway between the base of the second and fourth ; the 

 second inferior subcostal nervule arises two-fifths way down the cell, curved strongly 

 inward at its extreme base; cell but little more than one-third the length of the wing 

 and two and a half times longer than broad; median nervure connected just beyond its 

 second divarication with the vein closing the cell. 



