LYCAENINAK: .MlirKA DAMON. 8G1 



adornment of catcrpillart*. Tliese brilliant colors arc perhaps only possi- 

 ble i)y tbeir possession of protective osmateria. 



We have spoken only of the body ; yet the head should not be over- 

 looked, for though generally, if not black, of nearly the same color as the 

 body, or of some tint which harmonizes well with it, it not unfrerpiently has 

 attractive colors and markings of its own which merit a single word. The 

 frontal triangle is one point around which the colors seem often to be sym- 

 metrically disposed, and next in importance arc the crowning points of the 

 hemispheres into wiiich the lieail is laterally divided. If important papil- 

 lae are present, these are frequently colored in some striking contrast with 

 the surface itself, and the surface, sometimes glistening, sometimes dead, 

 is often punctate or rugulose with delicate tracery. Nor should we 

 omit to mention the ocelli, which under the lens are often seen to have 

 colors of striking beauty, and almost always are contrasted with their 

 ground in some striking way by rings of pigment peculiar to them. 



MITURA DAMON.— The olive hair streak. 



[Green hair streak butterfly (Abbot) : aiilmni Thecia (Harris); the olive hair strealj (Scud- 

 der); green strealied butterfly (Maynard).] 



P<i/)i7iO(Znm07t Cram.Pjip. exot.,iv:20S,pl. Rep. ins. 111., vii: 93 (1881);— French, Butt. 



390. tigs. C, D (17b!2) ;— Herbst,Natursyst. ins. east. U. S., 208-269 (1886) ;— Mayn., Butt. N. 



sohmeU., xi : 24. pi. 299, figs. 9, 10 (1804). E.. 35, pi. 5, figs. 4.3, 43a (1886). 



Thecia damon Harr., Hitchc. rep., 390 Mitonra smilacis ScuiM.fSyat. rev. Amer. 



(1833);— Ilewits., 111. diurn. Lep., iii:94, pi. ImU., 31 (1872). 



37, fig. 100 (1867). Thecia auhurniana Harr., Ins. iuj. veg., 



Poli/ommatus damastiis God., Encycl. 3d ed., 277-278 (1862) ;— Jlorr., 8yn. Lep. N. 



m(Sth., ix:602,G40,pl.41.figs.l4, 14bis(18i9). Anicr.. 101-102 (1862). 



Thecia damastus Westw.-Hewits., Gen. Thecia simaethis Herr.-Schaeft".,C'orresp. 



diurn. Lep., ii : 486 (1852). zool. min. ver. Regensb., xxiii : .58 (1809). 



Lyctts gryneus Hubn., Verz. schmett., 74 Thecia castalis Edw., Trans. Anier. ent. 



(1816). SOI'., iii : 208 (1871). 



Thecia stnilacis Boisd.-LeC., Lt!p. Ani<!r. Figured by Glover, 111. X. A. Lep., pi. 28' 



sept., 107-108, pi. .33, figs. .5-8 (1833) ;— Morr., fig. 3 ; pi. 38, figs. 2, 3; pi. B, fig. 7, iued. 



Syn. Lep. N. Amer., 98-99 (1802) ; — Middl., (NotPap. simaethis Drury.) 



Sec her bright rolics the butterfly unfold, 

 Broke from her wintry tomb in jarime of May I 

 AVhat youthful bride can e<iual lior array? 

 Who can with her tor easy pleasure vie/ 

 From mead to mead with gentle wing to stray, 

 From flower to flower on balmy gales to fly. 

 Is all she has to do beneath the radiant sliy. 



Tno.Msox. — Castle of Indolence. 



Of .such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit. 



Shakespeare. — Love's Laboxir's Lost. 



Imago (6: 17, 18). Head covered in front with luteo-ochraceous hairs, above with 

 dark brown scales, partially concealed by overarching ochraceous hairs; between the 

 antennae are sometimes found a few green scales; eyes encircled, excepting above 

 and a narrow break beneath, by a ratlier broad band of snow-white scales, extending 

 upward in front of the antennae and connected just above the tongue by a broad 



