850 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



approaches and the leaves grow dull, the grain ripens in the meadow and 

 the pastures parch with drouglit, then come the satyrs or meadow-browns, 

 lazily dancing by the roadside and over the thickets which skirt the fields ; 

 in the time of golden rods and yellow and blue asters tlie great throng of 

 yellow and orange butterflies ajjpear ; some of them are with us through- 

 out the season, companions of the buttercup, the dandelion, and the 

 rudbcckia; but now they swarm, flitting busily in zigzag courses over 

 upland {)asture and lowland meadow, by marsh and brook, in field and 

 fen, crowding around the open flowers, or dancing in pairs in mid-air. 



*,* Coni|);ii-e some .similar oli.servations on the seiisoual suc^cessiou of European mollis by 

 Werncburgin his Der schmetterhng andsein leben. Berlin, IHH. See pp. 116-117. 



URANOTES MELINUS.— The gray hair streak. 



[Red spotted hair streak butterfly (Abbot); hop vine theela (Harris); hop butterfly, hop- 

 eatini; theele (Emmons); gray hair streak (Scudder); gray streaked butterfly (Maynard).] 



iStri/mon melinus Hiibn., Zutr. exot. T'Aec?(!po'?i Harr., Hitehc. rep. geol. Mass., 



schmi-tt., i : 22, lig. 121-122 (1818). 590 (1833). 



Theela melinus Westw.-Hewits., Gen. Theeln huriiuli Harr., Ins. inj. veg., 1st. 



diiirn. Lep., ii:48H (1852). ed., 21.5-21(; (1841); 3d. ed., 276-277. pi. i. fig. 



CalUpareus melinus Scudd., Syst. rev. 3(1862); — Emm., Agric. N. Y.,v: 2U (18.54); 



Amer. butt., 30 (1872). —French, Rep. 111. ins., vii : 157 (1878) ; Butt. 



Uranotes melinus Scudd., Bull. Buff. soc. east. U. S.. 259 (1886) ;— Fern., Butt. Me., 78 



nat. sc, iii : 107 (1876) ; Butt., 130, 308, tig. 124 (1884) ;— Mayn., Butt. 'N. E., 34-35, pi. 4, figs. 



(1881). 32, 32a (1.886). 



T/iecla melinus vnr.pudica 11. Edyf.. Pae. Theela silenus Doubl., List Lep. Brit. 



coast Lep., 113 [22: 10] (1876). Mus., ii :31 (1847). 



PfiZ;/omm("(Jt«s e»'(/eMS God., Encycl. mftth., Papilio Abb., Dr.aw. ins. Ga., 



ix: 601, 635-636 (1819). Brit. Mus., vi : 49, tigs. 160, 161 ; xvi, 37, tab. 



Theela hyperici Boisd.-LeC, L6p. AmSr. 176 (ca. 1800). 



sept., 90-91, pi. 28, figs. 1-5 (1833) ;— Morr., Figured also by Abbot, Draw. ins. Ga., 



Syn. Lep. N. Amer., 94 (1862). Gray coll., Bost. soc. nat. hist., 57; Oeniler 



Theela /auontMS Boisd.-LeC, L(Sp. Amfr. coll., ibid., 23; — Glover, 111. N. A. Lep., pi. 



sept., 95-98, pi. 30, figs. 1-5 (1833); —Morr., 28, fig. 6, ined. 



Syn. Lep. N. Amer., 95-96 (1862). (Not Pap. favonius Smith- Abbot; nor Pap. 



pan Drury.) 



Why, I have been a butterfly, a lord 



Of flowers, garlands, love-knots, silly posies. 



Groves, meadows, melodies, and arbour roses. 



Keats.— J??irfymio». 

 She dances featly. 



Shakespeare.— Winter's Tale. 



Ima£;o (6: 20; 14:13). Head covered witli snow white scales, the front with a 

 large, quadrate space (vvliich reaches neither the eyes nor the antennae, and leaves a 

 large patch above tlio tongue) filled sparsely with Aaxk brown or blacklsli hairs, and 

 sometimes also with paler scales, so as, in tlie latter case, lo form a plumbeous patch; 

 space behind the antennae blaclcish Ijrown, and witli the basal antennal joint incon- 

 spicuously edged with short, blacliish hairs; the back of tlie head, especially the upper 

 portion of the sidi^s, covered with bhackish scales; vertex, together with the overarch- 

 ing hairs in the middle of the posterior part of the he.ad, bright orange. Antennae 

 blackisli brown, the joints of the stalk and of the proximal part of the club .annu- 



