856 THE BUTTEHl-LIKS OF N'EW ENGLAND. 



^^TUKA SCUDDER. 



Jlitura Scudd., Syst. rev. Am. butt. 31 (1872). Thecla pai-s Auctorum. 



Type. — Thecla smilacis Bnind.-LeC. 



Malheur, papillon.? que j'aiiue, 



Dijux ciiiljli'uic, 

 A vous pour voire beauU!! . . . 

 Uu doigt de votre corsage, 



Au passage, 

 Froisse, h^las ! le velouti ! . . . 



Uiie toute jeune fille, 

 Au eoeur tendre, au doux souris, 

 Pergant vos coeurs d'une aiguille, 

 Vous eontemple, I'oeil surpris : 

 Et vos pattes sout eoup6es 

 Par I'ongle blauc qui les mord, 

 Et vos anteunes crisp^es 

 Dans les douleurs de la niort 1 . . . 



De Nerval.— ies Papillons. 



Imago (54 : 10). Head rather small, densely clothed with scales, which are longer 

 above, and rather abundantly furnished with moderately long, curving hairs, both 

 above and in front. Front rather full, the middle longitudinal half being tumid, and 

 increasingly so from above downward, considerably surpassing tlie front of the eyes 

 throughout and especially below; at the upper extremity a short, narrow groove 

 down the middle; the piece is slightly less than half as high again as broad, and fully 

 as broad as the eye on a front view; the upper margin is raised to a scarcely per- 

 ceptible transverse ridge, the corners considerably hollowed in front of the eyes; 

 lower margin strongly and rather broadly convex, subquadrate ; vertex nearly flat in 

 the middle, not higher than the front, at the sides developed into broad, tumid en- 

 largements behind the antennae, and separated from the occiput by a broad and deep, 

 straight, nearly uniform, transverse channel, with a small, central, circular pit. Eyes 

 rather large and full, very sparsely pilose with not very long scattered hairs, becoming 

 longer below and wanting above. Antennae inserted in the middle of the anterior 

 half of the summit, and separated from each other by a space equalling the width of 

 the Ijasal antennal joint; considerably longer than the abdomen, consisting of twenty- 

 eight joints, of which eleven or twelve form the rather strongly depressed club, 

 whicli is scarcely three times as broad as the stalk, about five times as long as broad, 

 Increasing in size very gradually and mostly on the outer side, tapering more rapidly 

 over the last four joints, the last bluntly rounded. Palpi scarcely half as long again as 

 the eye, moderately .slender, the apical joint about three-quarters the length of the 

 penultimate, and furnished with recumbent scales, the other joints heavily clothed with 

 moderately large and long scales, and provided besides, along the under surface, with 

 a thin fringe of rather long, coarse hairs, all in a vertical plane. 



I'atagia very long and slender, a little arched and tumid, nearly four times as long 

 as broad, the basal half tapering slightly, the apical half equal, half as broad as the 

 base, the apex bluntly rounded. 



Fore wings (39 : 14) fully two-thirds as long again as their width, the costal margin 

 strongly bent a little way from the base, beyond straight, at the very tip bent slightly 

 backward, rounding ofl' the outer angle, the outer margin very broadly and regularly 

 curved, the inner margin straight. Costal nervure terminating a little beyond the tip 

 of the cell ; first superior subcostal branch arising a little beyond the middle of the cell ; 

 the second either half way ( ? ) , or not over one-quarter way ( (J ) , to the tip of the 

 cell ; the third, either at the tip of the cell ( ? ), or very shortly beyond the second 

 ($); the main stem either straight beyond the origin of the first branch ($), or 

 curved downward pretty strongly beyond the origin of the second branch, slightly 

 upward again beyond the apex of the cell, and then straight ((J) ; cross vein closing 



