NYMPIIALINAE: THE GENUS CIIARIDRYAS. 647 



CHARIDRYAS SCUDDEK. 



Cluiridryas .Sendd., Syst. rev. nincr. butt., 2(1 Eresia pans Auctorun). 



(1872). Phyeiodc's pars Auctoruni. 



Melitaea pars Auctoruni. Type. — Melitaea ui/cteis Boubl. 



The hutterflios come aping 

 Those line tliieves of ours. 

 And Ihitter round our rifled tops like tickled flowers with flowers. 

 Leigh HvyiT.— CJioms of Floioers. 



Imago (54 : 8). Head raUicr large, ratlier sparsely famished with long erect hairs. 

 Front a little tumid, beneath broadly and rather largely protuberant, l)roa.der than 

 high, somewhat narroAver than the eye; upper border sloping a little toward the pit 

 of the antennae, produced angularly and rather broadly between the antennae, where 

 it is transversely and a little angularly arched ; lower border Avell rounded and regular. 

 Vertex rather large, considerably tumid, in its posterior half projecting considerably 

 beyond tlie level of the eyes, not much broader than long, the sides a little concave, 

 narrowing slightly, the posterior border gently rounded ; the anterior border descend- 

 ing considerably and roundly to the aritennal pit, produced quite strongly in front. 

 Eyes moderately large and full, naked. Antennae inserted Avith their posterior border 

 in the middle of the summit, in rather deep, distinct pits, separated by a space equal 

 to nearly or quite the diameter of the second antennal joint, considerably longer than 

 the abdomen, composed of from thirty-five to thii'ty-seven joints, of which thirteen 

 or fourteen enter into the composition of the club; this is cylindrical, tlireo times as 

 broad as the stalk, from four to five times as long as broad, increasing very grad- 

 ually in size, the middle portion uniform, then decreasing very gradually to a 

 l)luntly rounded apex, five or six joints entering into the diminution of size, the 

 last joint very bluntly conical ; beneath with a distinct median carina, extending upon 

 the stalk. Palpi very long and moderately stout, more than twice as long as the 

 longer diameter of the eye, directed forward and somewhat upward, the last joint 

 scarcely two-fifths the length of the penultimate, and furnished with only a very few 

 slightly spreading hairs in addition to its clothing of recumbent scales ; while the 

 other joints are amply fringed above and below with long, erect, forAvard reaching 

 scales and hairs, all in a vertical plane. 



Prothoracic lobes strongly appressed. especially exteriorly, where they are only 

 half as long as interiorly, the upper surface well rounded, between three and four 

 times as broad as high and about twice as high as long, the ends well rounded. Pata- 

 gia moderately bi'oad and quite long, more than three times as long as broad, the 

 posterior lobe large and broad, narroAving but little but to a pointed tip, the inner 

 border straight but bent not far from the apex, and the outer border concaA^e at the 

 same point, so that the end of the lobe turns outAvard a little. 



Fore wings (39 : !)) three-fourths as long again as broad, the costal margin exactly 

 as in Phyciodes, tlio upper part of the outer margin, as far as the loAvest submedian 

 nervule, nearly straight, scarcely convex, at about right angles Avith the costal margin ; 

 beloAv, as far as the loAvest median nervule, it is scarcely concave and bent iuAvardly 

 at an angle of about 40°; beloAV this a very little excised, the angle rounded off; inner 

 margin scarcely concave. First superior subcostal nervule arising shortly before the 

 apex of the cell; the second as far beyond the apex of the cell as from the third; this 

 slightly further from the fourth than from the second ; the fourth tAvice as far from 

 the apex of the cell as from the outer margin ; second inferior subcostal nervule 

 arising fully one-third Avay doAvn the outer margin of the cell ; the cell fully tAvc-fifths 

 the length of the Aving and tAvo and a half times longer than broad. Last median ner- 

 vule connected at a short distance from its origin Avith the vein closing the cell. 



Hind Avings Avith the costal margin as in Phyciodes, the outer border rather broadly 



