846 THK BUTTERFLIES OF NEW KX(iLANI). 



over a space equal to about a f'ourtli or a fif'tli of their w idtli ; the insect 

 frequently sidles about — even during this action — witli a twitching move- 

 ment, as if seeking a suitable place of rest, though this is done Avithout 

 reference to the sun. 



Desiderata. This insect has never been reared and the egg and early 

 stages of the larva as well as its habits arc quite unknown. Even the 

 food plant has yet to be found, for the only caterpillars we know were 

 found full fed on the rocks. One should watch the action of the females 

 during June, especially about Ericaceae or Ilosaceae, which are perhaps 

 more likely than other plants to prove its food. Our knowledge of the 

 geographical distribution of the butterfly leaves much to be desired, for on 

 account of its early flight and easy disguise it has, no doubt, been over- 

 looked in many localities where it occurs. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.—INCISALIA AUGUSTUS. 



General. P]. 34:32. Male abdominal appendages. 

 PI. 23, fig. 5. Di3tril)Htion in North America. 46, fig. 24. Androconiiim. 



Imago. 65:1. Side view with head and appen- 



Pj. 6, fig. 25. Female, l)Oth surfaces. dages enlarged, and details of the struc- 



13:3. Both surfaces. ture of the legs. 



URANOTES SCUDDER. 



Uranotes 8cudd., Bull. Buft'. soc. nat. sc, iii: Theela par.s Auctorum. 



107 (1S7G). (Not Calliparaea Bon., 1851.) 



Callipareus Scudd., Syst. rev. butt., 30(1872). Type.—Strymonmelinus Hubn. 



The dandy Butterfly, 



All exquisitely drest, 

 Before the Daisy's eye 



Displays his velvet vest : 

 In vain is he arrayed 



In all that gaudy show ; 

 What business hath a maid 



AV^ith such a foppish beau? 



Sutton.— r/ie Daisy. 



Imago (54:9). Head rather small, densely clothed with scales, which above are 

 greatly elevated and curve forward, and on the upper part of the front moderately 

 supplied with rather long, coarse hairs. Front scarcely tumid below, sunken above, 

 especially in a short and broad shallow groove down the middle, in no part, except- 

 ing below, advanced as far as the front of the eyes ; nearly half as high again as 

 broad, neai'ly or quite equalling the eye in breadth as seen from the front: upper bor- 

 der not raised in the middle, but infringing on the more elevated vertex, the corners 

 considerably liollowed in front of the eyes; lower border very strongly arched. Ver- 

 tex slightly tumid in the middle, higher than the summit of the front, forming, on 

 either side, pretty large, gradually swollen buttresses to the bases of the antennae, and 

 separated from the occiput by a straight, broad and rather deep, transverse channel. 

 Eyes rather large and full, sparsely pilose, excepting on the posterior fifth, with mod- 

 erately short hairs, longer beneath. Antennae placed in the middle of the anterior half 

 of the summit, or a little in advance of it, and separated by a space fully equalling 

 the width of the second antennal joint: considerably longer than the abdomen, con- 

 sisting of thirty-two joints, of which thirteen or fourteen form the club, which is 

 nearly four times as broad as the slightly compressed stalk, increases very gradually 



