802 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



STRYMON HUBNER. 



Strymon HUbn., Verz. bek. sehmett., li Thecla Auctorum. 

 (ISlG). Tyfie.— Chrysophanus mopsus Silbn. 



Nay, a light tuft of bloom towered above 



To be toyed with by l)utterfly or bee, 

 Done good to or else harm to from outside. 

 Browning.— r/ie liijisi and the Book. 



Imago (55:-t). Head ratlier large, densely clothed with scales, and, rising but 

 little above them, a rather abundant supply of short, curving hairs. Front nearly flat, 

 with a sliglit l)road furrow down the middle above; below it, slightly tumid down the 

 middle, at the lower extremity a little protuberant, and here only surpassing the front 

 of the eyes ; more than half as high again as broad, and nearly or quite as broad as 

 the front view of the eyes; middle of upper border forming a very slight blunt ridge, 

 the corners rather largely hollowed in front of the antennae; lower border greatly 

 arched, the sides parallel. Vertex tuberculate in the miildle and on eitlier side next 

 the outer posterior edge of the antennae ; separated from the occiput by a transverse, 

 sinuous, somewhat deep channel. Eyes rather large and full, sparsely pilose with 

 very short hairs, which become shorter on every side toward the periphery. Antennae 

 inserted with the posterior border of the base in the middle of the summit, separated 

 by a space nearly or quite equal to the diameter of the basal joint; nearly half as long 

 again as tlie abdomen, consisting of thirty-three or thirty-four joints, of which the 

 last fourteen form an elongated, cylindrical, somewhat compressed club, scarcely 

 twice as broad as the stalls, aljout six times as long as broad, at first increasing very 

 gradually in size, equal for most of its length, becoming smaller just before the tip, 

 which itself is well rounded. Palpi slender, ratlier compact, but little longer than the 

 eye, the last joint half as long as the penultimate, and furnished only with recumbent 

 scales, while the others are heavily clothed with large, loose scales projecting forward 

 and upward, although but little beyond the lower border of the palpus. 



Patagia extremely long and slender, and, excepting inner margin, a little arched and 

 slightly tumid, four or Ave times longer than broad, basal half tapering slightly, apical 

 half nearly equal, slightly bent outward, not half so broad as base, tip rouniled. 



Fore wings (39 : 15) fully two-thirds as long again as broad, the costal margin a 

 little convex and expanded next the base, beyond, to an equal distance from the tip, 

 straight, and then cur\'e(l downward somewliat at the tip, the outer angle a little 

 rounded ; outer border equally and but little curved ( ? ) , or equally and slightly con- 

 vex on the upper two-thirds, below straight, scarcely continuous with the lower por- 

 tion of the curve {$), its general direction being at an angle of about 50° with the 

 middle of the costal margin ; inner margin straight, the outer angle rounded off. 

 Costal nervure terminating a little beyond the tip of the cell ; subcostal with three supe- 

 rior branches, the first arising in the middle of the outer four-fifths of the upper mar- 

 gin of the cell, the second less than one-third way from there to the apex of the cell 

 ( (J ) , or scarcely more than half way to the same ( ? ) , tlie thii-d a short distance 

 beyond the second (<f ), or at the very apex of the cell (?), the juain vein slightly 

 flexed beyond it in the male in the middle of the discal spot, turned upward again at 

 the tip of the cell, and terminating below the tip of the wing; inferior subcostal nerv- 

 ule connected to the main stem by an exceedingly weali cross vein, distinct only in its 

 upper half, and to the submedian by a cross vein weak throughout. Cell half the 

 length of the wing, and nearly or quite four times as long as broad. 



Hin<l wings witli the costal margin strongly rounded, at the base much more so than 

 beyond, being here greatly expanded, the outer angle well rounded, the outer margin 

 pretty regularly and sliglitly rounded, the lower portion produced much more than the 

 upper, sliglitly and roundly emarginate in the medio-subraedian interspace, and below 



