LYCAENINAi: : I'llKCLA MPAROPS. 



877 



Described from 2 $ ,1 9 ■ Longest tails varying from 1.25 to 3.65 mm. in length. 



Secondary sexual peculiarities. For the discal stigma of the male see the 

 description of the fore wing; the scales from the stigma (46: 19) differ from those 

 of all the others in being much moregrsulually tapering at the base than at the tip, so 

 as not to be lobed at all, and to have the sides broadly curved throughout ; it is also 

 slenderer, being nearly four times as long as broatl, with a well rounded tip like that 

 of T. wlwardsii. 



This rarest of our Tlieclae is evidently a member of the Alleghanian 

 faima (23 : 8) ; it has been found, however, in very few localities : — 

 near London, Ontario (Read), Amherst (^lerrill) and Waltham, ^Nlass. 

 (Thaxter) and riantsville. Conn. (Shepard, Yale Coll. Mus.). Mr. 

 Read captured a male in July, Mr. Thaxter his on sumac "in the middle 

 of the berry season," and these are the only recorded dates. Doubtless 

 like the other species it is single brooded and to be looked for in July. 

 No other butterHv confined to our fauna is so little known. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.— THECLA ONTARIO. 



General. 

 PI. 23, lig. S. Distribution in North America. 



Iinado. 

 PI. 6. lig. 15. Male, both surfaces. Copied 



from Edwards's figures in his Butterflies 

 of North America, vol. i. 

 34 : 15. Male abdominal appendages. 

 40:19. Androconium. 



THECLA LIPAROPS. The striped hair streak. 



[TheOgeechee brown hiiir streak butterlly (Abbot) ; streaked Thecla (Harris) ; white striped 

 hair streak (Scudder); white bordered streaked butterfly (Maynard).] 



Thecla liparops LeC, Boisd-LeC. Li5p. 

 Amfir. sept., 99-100, pi. 31, figs. 1-4 (18.33);— 

 Morr., Syn. Lep. N. Amer., 96-97 (1862);— 

 Sendd.. Bull. Bufl". soc. nat. sc, iii : 111 (1876). 



Thecla strigosa Harr., Ins. inj. veg., 3ded.. 

 276 (1862);— Morr., Syn. Lep. N. Amer., 101 

 (1862);— Edw., Butt. N. Amer., i, Thecla ii, 

 figs. 3-6(1869); Syn.N. A. Butt., 51-52 (1872); 

 — Saund., Can. ent., i : 99-100 (1869) ; Ins. inj. 

 fruit, 176-177, fig. 187 (18.83) ;—P.i<-k., Guide 

 ins. 267-268 (1869) ;— French, Rep. 111. ins., vii: 



157-158 (1878) ; Butt. east. U. S., 266-268, fig. 

 74 (1886);— Middl., Rep. 111. ins., x: 92-93 

 (1881) ;— Fern., Butt. Me., 79-80 (1884) ;— Mayn. 

 Butt. N. E., 32-33, pi. 6, figs. 38, 3Sa (1886). 



Fapilio Abb., Draw. ins. Ga., Brit., 



Mus. vi: 51, figs. 16.5-167 (ca. 1800). 



Figured also by Abbot, Draw. ins. Ga., 

 Oemler coll., Bost. soc. nat. hist. 22;— Glover, 

 111. N. A. Lep., pi. B, fig. 4; pi. E, fig. 17; pi. 

 G, fig. 2; pi. K, fig. 3, ined. 



. . . dead July, whose children the sweetpeas 

 Are sipped by butterflies with wings astir. 



Todhunter.— /« August. 

 O, let me, true in love, but truly write. 



SiiAKKSPr.Anv..— Sonnet. 



Imago (6:11). Head black, with intermingled brown scales, especially in the mid- 

 dle of the front; vertex with a short, longitudinal, median stripe of white hairs; eyes 

 encircled with snow white scales, extending from the lower anterior edge of the an- 

 tennae down the front and around nearly to the anteunae again, interrupted narrowly 



