536 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



PnpiUo Abb., Draw. ins. Geo. Brit. 620, pi. 19, tig. (5 (1704) ;— Glover, 111. N. A. 



Mus., vi : 32, fig. 7 (cu, 1800). Lep., pi. 35, fig. 8, ined. 



Figured by Miill., Liun. Natursyst., i, v: 



Lastly his shinic wings as silver bright, 

 Painted witli tlicjusand colours passing farre 

 All painters skill, he did al)out him dight: 

 Not half e so manie sundrie colours arre 

 In Iris bowe ; ne heaven doth shine so bright. 

 Distinguished with manie a twinckling starre; 

 Nor Junoes bird, in her ey-spotted traine. 

 So many goodly colours doth containe. 



Spense R.— i)/r< iopotmos. 



From you have I been absent in the spring, 

 When proud-pied. April dress'd in all his trim 

 Hath put a spirit of spring in every thing. 



Shakespeare.— >S'oM?«ei. 



Imago (4 : 3, 8 ; 12 : 12). Head covered with dark tawny orange scales and hairs, a 

 few dull whitish ones edging the posterior border of the eye and the outer base of the 

 antennae, and separating the dorsal from the lateral region of the head, by an incon- 

 spicuous line running directly backward from the summit of the eye. Palpi covered 

 outwardly with dark purplish scales, intermingled Avith a few tawny and Avhitish 

 scales and scattered black bristles, fringed beneath with dark gray hairs, tinged, 

 especially beyond the basal joint with orange, fringed above with pale gray hairs and 

 at tip of penultimate joints with orange hairs. Inner under surface of antennae 

 devoid of scales and bright tawny orange, elsewhere gray, with mingled black and 

 pale yellow scales, the former more abundant on the apical half of the stalk and 

 above, excepting at the base of the joints, the latter on the basal half of the stalk, at 

 the base of the joints and on the sides ; club black, the tip and three or four apical 

 joints, especially beneath, more or less tinged with orange tawny. Tongue dark luteo- 

 fuscous at base, Avith a median line of black; papillae (61 : 31) long oval, four times 

 as long as broad, the apical rim entire, the central filament rather stout, bluntly coni- 

 cal, half as long as the width of the papilla; they are arranged on the apical twelfth of 

 the tongue, at first on the under side, at the iiuier margin of each maxilla, but in the 

 middle of their course crossing to the outer edge. 



Thorax and patagia covered with dark chocolate brown scales and hairs, those on 

 the front tinged partly with tawny orange ; femora dark purplish brown ; tibiae and 

 tarsi the same externally, the former pale dull yellowish beneath, the latter fusco-lute- 

 ous; spines black; spurs reddish, darker at tip ; claw^s dark reddish. 



Wings above : fore wings brilliant orange, sprinkled near the base, especially on the 

 lower half of the wing, with black scales, marked with numerous purplish black bars 

 and spots; costal margin, as far as the subcostal nervure, black, powdered with dull 

 orange next the base; cell crossed by three similar, sinuous, black stripes, the middle 

 one in the middle of the cell, the others at equal distances from it; besides these the 

 outer limit of the cell is bordered interiorly with black and the upper half exteriorly 

 by a band, which, below this point, curves abruptly outward and then inward to the 

 bottom of the cell, enclosing an orange spot ; beyond the cell is a moderately broad, 

 greatly tortuous, broken, mesial stripe of black, commencing at the subcostal and 

 crossing, first the subcostal interspaces diagonally outward, in the middle of their basal 

 two-thirds; next, the middle of the subcosto-median interspace, its interior border 

 continuing the exterior border of the previous part of the band; then, the submediau 

 interspaces by separate sinuous bars in the middle of their basal half, and across the 

 middle of the succeeding interspace by a curving bar, opening inward ; beyond this 

 mesial stripe, depending from the costal border, is a triangular, diagonal, black patch 

 with a very vague outline, crossing the subcostal interspaces parallel to the neighbor- 

 ing portion of the mesial stripe; beyond this, across the middle of the outer 

 half of the wing, is a series of six round black spots parallel to the outer border, 



