788 Till': BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



botervlieo-, eurlicr hotervlicslie, the German butterfliegc, aiul tlie earlier 

 German form, buttervogel.* Otlicr variations of the same name will 

 appear in the poetical quotations from different languages which we have 

 scattered throughout the present work. Murray in his New English 

 dietionarv gives various extracts showing the early use of this name, the 

 earliest in the Anglo-Saxon being as far back as 1000 by Aelfric. Chaucer 

 o-ives it in anotiier form : "swicli talkyug is nat worth a boterflye." 



CALEPHELIS BOREALIS.— The large metal-mark. 



[The large nietal-niark (Grotc); the steel speck (ScuiUler).] 



Ki/mphidia borealis Grote-Kob., Aim. lye. Catephelis borealis Grote, Cau. eat., v : 144 



nat. hist. N. Y., vlii: 3.31-353 (1866). (18T3) ;-Fi-ench, Butt. east. U. S., 2.53 (1886). 



Charii! (Calephelis) borealis Grote-Rob., Charts lavenui f Godm.-Sa\-v.,Ji\ol centr. 



Trans. Amer. ent. soe., ii:310 (ISffll). amer., Rhop..i: 430-431 (1886). 



Cliaris borealis Kirb., Syu. catal. Lep., 319 NymphUHa (/eda Boisd., Mss. 



(1871). 



Polystichtis borealisSmM.jSyst.Tev. Am. Figured by Glover, 111. N. A. Lep., pi. H 



uw., 29(1872). fig. 3 (ined.). 



Atoms of color thou hast called to life, 

 (We name them buttei-llies), Hoat lazily 

 On clover swings, their drop of honey made 

 By thee, dear queen, already for their need. 



Mary Butts.— ^4 Qtiest. 

 A rich mantle he did wear 

 JIade of tinsel gossamer, 

 Br-starri'il oviM' with a few 

 Diamond drops of morning dew. 



Mennis and Smith. — King Oberoii's Apparel. 



Imago (6: 2; 14: 16). Head covered behind with blackish fuliginons scales ; behind 

 the eyes, excepting above, with a rather broad belt of satt'ron scales ; above with black- 

 ish fuliginous scales and liairs, with scattered reddish satt'ron ones, especially in a 

 little patch behind the base of each antenna: lower portion of front saflVon, tinged 

 strongly with reddish above. Antennae blackish, darkest above, slightly and minutely 

 specked with reddish, annulated rather narrowly at the base of each joint of the stem, 

 particularly above, with white, the apical two joints of the club dull reddish luteous. 

 Palpi saflron, pale in the upper portion of the sides, the apical joint blackish, par- 

 ticularly above. Tongue very pale luteous, fuscous at tlie very base. 



Thorax above, together with the patagia, covered with blackish fuliginous and some 

 paler scales and hairs, beneath satt'ron. Legs satt'ron colored, the tarsi duskier, the 

 apex of the tibiae and tarsal joints infuscated ; spines dull luteous ; claws dark luteous. 



Wings above, dull brownish yellow, having a cinnamoneous tinge, in great measure 

 concealed by a heavy sprinkling of brownish and blackish fuliginous scales, the latter 

 often collected iuto obscure, transverse stripes and the wings consequently presenting a 

 grimy and rusty appear.ance. On the /ore v;inys three of these stripes are equidistant 

 from one another within the cell, and reach from the subcostal to the subniedian ner- 

 vure; another marks the outer limit of the cell; while a larger median one crosses the 



* Compare our own \-M\\bird forCoccinellii. Ladybird, ladybird, tly away home, 



as in the common distich, which r;m difl'cr- Your liousc is on fire and your children will 



ently in my childhood from what is set roam, 

 down in the books. I was taught to say:— 



