982 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEAV ENGLA^rD. 



EPIDEMIA SCUDDER. 



Epidemia Scudil.. Bull. Bull, soc, nat. sc, iii, Tupe. — Pulijnmmatus epixanthe Boisd.- 

 127 (1876). LeC 



llow strange ! 

 Look at the woman here with the new soiil, 

 Like my own Psyehe'.s, — fresh ui>oii her lips 

 Alit, tlie visionary butterfly, 

 "Waiting my word to enterand make bright, 

 Or flutter off and leave all l)lank a.s tirst. 



BROVTNiyG.—Pippa Passes. 



Imago (55 : 9). Head moderately large, densely scaled, and furnished above rather 

 abundantly vrith very long, delicate, arching hairs and in front with shorter, stouter 

 ones, shorter below than above. Front with even, scarcely convex surface, nowhere 

 reaching the front of the eyes; half as high again as broad, and of the width of an 

 eye on the front view ; upper border straight, its angles rather deeijly hollo\ved by 

 the anteunal pits ; lower border ^-ery strongly aud rather broadly rounded. Vertex 

 with even surface, separated from the occiput by a rather broad aud shallow sulcation, 

 and behind it the somewhat tumid occiput marked by a mesial longitudinal indention. 

 Eyes not very large, tolerably full, naked. Antennae inserted with the posterior 

 border distinctly in advance of the posterior border of the eye, separated from each 

 other by a space rather more than equalling the l)asal joint ; about half as long again as 

 the abdomen, composed of thirty-four joints, of which sixteen form the compressed, 

 subarcuate, obfusiform club, which is fully three times as broad as the stalk, less than 

 four times as long as broad, increases gradually in size on the basal half, is broad aud 

 bluntly rounded apically, only two joints entering into the rapid apical diminution. 

 Palpi slender, nearly half as long again as the eyes, the middle joint tapering through- 

 out more than the apical half, the apical half the length of the middle joint, and 

 heavily covered with recumbent scales, while the others are heavily fringed beneath 

 with long scales and projecting hairs. 



Patagia very long and slender, somewhat arched in both senses, two and a half 

 times the basal width, tapering on the basal two-thirds, the apical half about a fourth 

 the width of the basal, equal, the tip rounded ; upper border entire. 



Fore wings (39 : 22) half as long again as broad, the costal margin slightly convex 

 at base and tip, the more strongly at base, the middle portion nearly straight; outer 

 margin broadly rounded, more arcuate in the upper third than below; inner margin 

 straight. Costal vein terminating scarcely before the tip of the cell ; subcostal with 

 three branches, the first arising somewhat beyond the middle of the upper border of 

 the cell ; the second much nearer the tip of the cell than the base of the first ( J ) or 

 midway between them ( ? ) ; the third barely before the tip of the cell, forking raid- 

 way ( J ) or a little less than midway ( ? ) from the base of the nervure to the end of 

 the lower branch ; the subcostal nervure itself slightly flexed at the extreme apex of 

 the cell ; cross veins closing the cell as in Chrysophanus ; the cell half the length of 

 the wing and nearly four times as long as broad. 



Hind wings difi"ering in form from those of Chrysophanus only in being proportion- 

 ally longer and with the outer margin less broadly rounded, Submedian nervure 

 terminating at the anal angle ; internal nervure terminating scarcely beyond the mid- 

 dle of the inner margin. 



Fore tibiae five-sixths as long as the hind tibiae in both sexes, tlie tarsi slightly 

 shorter (^) or slightly longer (?) than the tibiae; terminal joints of fore tarsi 

 either like those of the other legs (?), or forming a single entirely undivided joint, 

 slender and tapering, armed at tip with a single apical hook dift'ering from the spines 

 leading up to it only in being longer and curved (S)- The remainder of the legs 

 agree in all respects with Chrysophanus, except that the tarsal joints beyond the lirst 

 are more nearly equal in length. 



