964 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



RUSTICUS SCUDDERII.— The pearl studded violet. 



Ltjcaena scudderiiEdw., Proc. Acad. imt. Plebeius scudderii Kirb., Ibid., 653 (1871). 



sc. Philad., 1861,164; 1862,22.5;— Morr., Syn. iycaei'ifcs «c!i(i(ZerJi .Scudd.,Syst. rev. Am. 



Lep. N. Amer., 329-330, 352 (1862);— Strcck., butt., 33 (1872). 



Lep., 87 (1874); — M6selil., Stett. ent. zeit., J?!<stj(;!(S scwrfderij Scudd., Bull. Bulf. soc. 



XXXV : 1.55-156 (1874) ;—Saund., Can. ent.,x: 14 nat. sc, iii: 122 (1876); Psyche, v:13 (1888). 

 (1878) ;— Middl., Rep. 111. ins., x : 95 (18S1) ;— Lijcnena aster Edw., Can. ent., xiv : 194-195 



French, Butt. east. V. S., 28.5-286 (1886). (1882). 



Cupido scudderii Kirb., Syu. Catal. Lep., Figured by Glover, III. N. A. Lep., pi. 38 



358(1871). fig. 10; pi. I, fig. 9. 



A butterfly (but newly born) 

 Sate proudly perking on a rose ; 

 With pert conceit his bosom glows. 

 His wings (all glorious to behold) 

 Bedropt with azure, jet and gold. 

 Wide he displays; the spangTed dew 

 Reflects his eyes and various hue. 



John Gay.— The Butterfly and the Snail. 



O, how thy worth with manners may I sing, 

 When thou art all the better part of "me? 

 MTiat can mine own praise to mine own self bring? 

 And what is't but mine own when I praise thee? 



Shakespeare. — Sonnet. 



Imago (6: 6, 7). Head covered above with black scales; abroad circlet of silvery 

 white scales encircles most of the eyes, running from the immediate front of the 

 antennae nearly to their back, but separated from them by its own width ; the lower por- 

 tion of the front is also bordered with white and the sides behind the eyes are black, 

 more or less profusely sprinkled with white; front between and above the white 

 markings black, with a band of bluish scales and pale blue hairs running down the 

 middle and reaching nearly to the back of the head where the hairs become 

 whitish ; palpi white at base, with an inferior fringe on the first and second joints of 

 mingled black and white, the upper surface, apical half of the lower surface and apex 

 of outer surface of the second joint, blackish; last joint blackish, whitish at extreme 

 tip. Antennae black, aunulated distinctly at the base of each joint of the stem with 

 white, more heavily beneath than above ; club above black, the last three or four joints 

 mostly whitish, below fusco-luteous, brighter toward tip, darker toward base and 

 often marked to some extent, especially toward base, with white. Tongue pale fusco- 

 luteous throughout. 



Prothorax covered with black scales and longer bluish hairs. Thorax covered with 

 recumbent black scales and long bluish hairs ; patagia with many steel gray scales, 

 especially exteriorly, concealed in gre.it measure by long bluish hairs; below covered 

 with white scales and rather short wliite hairs with a bluish tinge. Legs covered 

 with silvery white scales and hairs, the base of the tarsal joints marked rather heavily 

 above with blackish; spurs covered with white scales to their reddish yellow tip. 

 Spines black; spurs brownish yellow, dusky toward the base. 



Wings above rather bright, uniform, lustrous, purplish violet {$') ; or with the same 

 color, having a metallic tinge, confined to the basal three-fourths of the lower two- 

 thirds of the wing, the costal border as far as the upper limits of the cell and the 

 outer margin for more than the width of an interspace being dark slate brown ; some- 

 times the brown encroaches still more on the violet, and the apex of the cell, particu- 

 larly in the fore wings, is marked by a dusky line, while the nervules crossing the 

 violaceous space are also brownish; there is a submarginal series of roundish dark 

 brown spots in the interspaces of the hind wings, which are more or less surmounted 

 and embraced, especially in the median interspaces, by orange lunules, themselves 

 edged above faintly with black ( ? ). In both sexes, the costal edge of the fore wings 



