658 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



we are permitted to reproduce, shows in its expression a vigor and persist- 

 ency which was the key to his industry and success. 



;).** Besides the life of Dr. Harris by Col. T. W. Higginson to wliicb we have alluded, 

 another by his son, Edward Doubleday Harris (named for the English lepidopterist), 

 should be consulted (Proc. Mass. hist. soc'.,xix); and for further details of the Le Conte 

 family, the life of Major Le Coute's son, Dr. John Lawrence Le Conte (Biogr. memoirs 

 Nat. acad. sc, ii, and Trans. Am. ent. soc, xi). The notice of Abbot, substantially as 

 given above, was first published in the Canadian entomologist for 1888. 



CHARIDRYAS NYCTEIS.— The silver crescent. 



[The silver crescent (Scudder) ; silver crescent butterfly (Mayuard).] 



Melitaea nycteisDouh]., Gen. diuvu. hep., xxiii. B: 108-112 (1875) ;— Edw., Can. ent., 



pi. 23, fig. 3 (1847) ;— Edw., Proc. Acad. nat. xi : 101-105 (1879) ;— Coq., Rep. ins. 111., x : 165 



sc. Philad., 18(31, 161-162 (1861);— Morn, Syn. (1881);— Fern., Butt. Me., 48-49 (1884);— 



Lep. N. Amer., 325-325 (1802);— Liutn., Rep- French, Butt. east. U. S., 172-174, fig. 50 



state cab. nat. hist. N. Y., xxiii: 158-159, pi. (1886). 



8, fig. 14 (1872) ;— Middl., Rep. ins. Ill,, X : 83- Charidryas mjcteis Scudd., Syst. rev. 



84 (1881);— Grub., Jen. zeitschr. uaturw., Amer. butt., 26 (1872). 



xvii : 478, pi. 8, figs. 30-32 (1884) ; Pap., iv: 90, Melitaea oenone Scudd., Proc. Ess. inst., 



pi. 3, figs. 30-32 (1884) ;— Mayn., Butt. N. E., iii : 166-167 (1863). 



28-29, pi. 4. figs. 33, 33a (1886). Ilelitaea harrisii Edw., Can. ent., ii : 163 



Melitaea (Phyciodes) nycteis Doubl.-He- (1870);- Saund., Can. ent. iv : 161-163 (1872) . 



wits., Gen. di^urn. Lep., i:181 (1848). ^ ^ ^^ ^ 



Eres^a nyctersYeM Neues Lep 49 (1861) ._ ° ^^ ^ ,^.^J 



Fhyciodes nycteisKn-]}.,Syn. cnt.l,ei).,ltS 



(1871) ;— Riley, Proc. Amer, ass. adv. sc, [Not Melitaea harrisii Scudd.] 



Yes, the Summer, the radiant Summer's the fairest. 

 For greenwoods and mountains, for meadows and bowers. 



For waters, and fruits, and for flowers the rarest, 

 And for bright shining butterflies, lovely as flowers. 



Mary Howitt. — Summer. 



Imago (5: 6). Head covered with yellowish fulvous and dusky hairs, changing 

 in front and especially toward the tongue, to whitish; lower three-fourths of tlie 

 liinder edge of the eye broadly bordered with snow white. Basal and second joint of 

 palpi white, with a white fringe, mingled Avith a few dusky hairs, the upper part of 

 the apical half of the middle joint, including its whole apex, and the apical joint, broAvn- 

 ish fulvous with a few l^lack scales, the extreme tip of the latter white; whole upper 

 border of inner side and the whole apical joint heavily obscured with blackish, the 

 middle joint fulvous apically. Antennae above blackish brown, each joint annulated, 

 the basal one but partially, with white; beneath white, the inside of the joints, es- 

 pecially those of the apical half mostly castaneous ; club black, the outer under sur- 

 face white, the inner under surface dusky orange, the apical foiar or Ave joints or less, 

 dull, deep orange beneath and partially so above; basal third of tongue luteous, the 

 remainder blackish fuscous; papillae (61 : 41) situated at the extreme tip, on the outer 

 edge of the under surface, moderately crowded, each appressed, cylindrical, a little 

 enlarged in tlie middle, as long as half the width of tlie tongue, three or four times 

 as long as broad, ending in a moderately large cup with sharp rim, from the centre of 

 which springs a slender, cylindrical, scarcely tapering, blunt tipped filament as long 

 as the narrowest width of the papilla. 



Thorax covered Avitli olivaceo-fulvons hairs above, more decidedly fulvous on the 

 prothorax and patagia; beneath snow av bite, the fore legs the s.ame, faintly tinged 



