842 TlIK BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



INCISALIA AUGUSTUS— The brown elfin. 



[The brown eltin (Scudder); brown streaked butterfly (Maynard).] 



Thecla augustus Kirb., Faun. bor. amir., Incisalia aurjustus'}iUn.,ii<:\iA>i. Sy.st. rev. 



iv:29S, pi. 3,figs. 4-5(1837);— Morr., Syn. Lcp. Amer. butt., 31-32 (1872) ;— Scudd., Geol. N. 



N. Aiuer. 103 "(1862) ;— Harr., Ins. inj.'veg., 3d H., i ; 356-357 (1874) ; Butt., 129-130, 308, fig. 123 



ed.,flg.l08oup.279 (1862);— G rote-Rob., Tran.s. (1881). 



Anier. ent. soc, i: 175-176 (1807);— Fern., Thecla auyustinim Westw., Gen. diurn. 



Butt. Me., 81-82 (1884) ;— Frenrh, Butt. east. U. Lep., ii : 4.86 (1852). 



S., 272 (1886);— Mayn., Butt. N. E., .36, pi. 5, Thecla irioides Boisd., Ann. Soe. ent. fr., 



figs. 44, 44a (1886) ;— Fyles, Can. out., .\i.\: (2) x: 289-290 (1852);— H. Edw.,Pac. coast 



147 (1887). " Lep., 130 [27: 2] (1878). 



Thecla augustus var. irioides Scudd., 



Bull. Bufl'. soc. nat. sc, iii: 104 (1876). Figured by Glover, 111. N. A. Lep., pi. 28, 



Thecla augustus var. cmesinides Scudd., figs. 12, 13; pi. 38, fig. 8, ined. 

 Bull. Buft'. soc. nat. sc, iii: 104 (187G). 



These gay idlers, the butterflies. 



Broke, to-day, from their winter shroud, 

 These soft airs, that winnow the skies. 



Blow, just born, from the soft, white cloud. 



Bryant.— TAe Neio and the Old. 

 When daisies pied and violets blue 



And lady-smocks all silver-white 

 And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue 



Do paint the meadows with delight. 



Shakespeare.— ioije's Labour's Lost. 



Imago (6 : 25 ; 13 : 3). Front and summit of head covered with rufous hairs, those 

 upon the summit slaty brown at base; eyes encircled, except at summit, by a 

 slender row of white scales, intermixed with some slate brown scales, extending 

 in front to the summit of the basal antenual joint and sometimes terminating behind 

 in some rufous scales ; these rows arc not connected above the mouth by a similar 

 band. Basal joint of antennae reddish brown, with a few white scales posteriorly ; 

 stalk of antennae blackish, with snow white annulations at the base of each 

 joint, especially broad beneath, where they occupy nearly half of the joint; at 

 the base of the club, beneath, the white scales coalesce and form a large patch, 

 extending about one-third w.ay up the club; club blackish or blackish brown, the 

 apical and penultimate joints honey yellow and sometimes one or two of the following 

 joints are partially discolored with the same. Bas.al and middle joints of palpi tufted 

 with a grayish mixture of white, rufons and blackish brown elongated scales, the first 

 predominating; terminal joint clothed with blackish brown scales, and excepting upon 

 the upper surface, with a few scattered white scales, especially on the inside. Tongue 

 pale testaceous at base, dusky beyond. 



Thorax covered above with long, soft, delicate, dark mouse brown hairs; patagia 

 with scales and hairs of similar color mingled with some of a pale tint ; beneath, the tho- 

 rax is covered with grayish hairs, intermingled at the sides with many rufous hairs _ 

 Femora covered on either side with pearly scales and beneath clothed with long gray 

 and brown hairs, the latter most abundant on the hind pair; tibiae and tarsi covered 

 with dark brown scales having a purplish reflection, the tibiae with a few inter- 

 sprinkled white scales especially on the fore legs, on the inner side of which they pre- 

 dominate, and on the outer side of which they form two transverse lines crossing 

 the leg at the middle and apex of the tibiae; the tarsi are also banded conspicuously 

 with white at the apex of each joint; beneath they are yellowish brown ; claws dark 

 reddish. 



Wings above dark soft slate brown, with very slight and delicate, dark, brassy green 

 reflections, especially in sunshine, either occasionally ( J ) or usually ( ? ) with a slight 



