998 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



HEODES HYPOPHLAEAS— The American copper. 



[The Aiuericau copper l)uUcrfly (Harris) ; small copper (Gosse) ; copper butterfly (Emmons) ; 

 sliortrtailed chrysophane (Emmous); small copper butterfly (Maynard).] 



Polyommatus hypophlaeas Boisd.,Auii. soc. Polyommatus phlaeas (pars) God., Encycl. 



cut. Fr., (•2)x:291 (1852) ; — Morr., Syn. Lep. m6th., ix: 609, 670-671 (1819);— Boisd.-LeC, 



N. A., 84 (18C2). Lep. Am. sept., 123-124 (1833);— Morr., Syu. 



Jleodes hypophlaeas Scudd., Bull. Bull", soc. Lep. N. A., 84 (1862). 



sc, iii : 128 (1876); Butt., 166,figs. 4, 7, 25, 42, Lycaena phlaeas Harr., nitchc. Eep., 690 



68, 105 (1881). (18,32). 



Chrysophanus hypophlaeas Edw., Rev. Chrysophanus phlaeas Emm., Agric. N. 



cat. Lep. N. A., 59 (1884) ;— Freuch, Butt. east. Y., v: 216, pi. 46, fig. 4 (1854). 



U. S., 283-284, figs. 7.V77 (1886). Lycaena phlaeas var. americana Streck., 



Lycaena americana Harr., MS.; lus. inj. Lepid., 91 (1878). 



veg., 3d ed., 273-274, fig. 104 (1802). Lycaena bacchus Harr. MS. 



Chrysophanus americanus D'Urb., Can. Fapilio Abb., Draw. ins. Geo. Brit. 



nat., V : 246 (1860) ;— French, Eep. 111. ins., vii : Mus., vi : 58, fig. 13 (ca. 1800). 



158 (1878) ;— Fern., Butt. Me., 89-90, figs. 27-28 Figured by "Glover, HI. y. A. Lep., pi. 27, 



(1884);— Mayn., Butt. N. E., 41, pi. 5, figs. 52, fig. 13; pi. Q, fig. 4, iued. 



52 a-c (1886). 



Polyommatus americanus Morr., Syn. [XotPapilio phlaeas Linn.] 

 Lep. N. A., 91 (1862). 



Colon de la plaine ithirin, Doux ornement de la nature, 



Aimable et brillant papillon, Vieiis me retracer sa beautiS ! 



Comment de cet affreux donjon Parle-moi de la liberty, 



As-tu su d6courir Teutrfie? Des eaux, des fleurs, de la verdure ; 



Parle-moi du bruit des torrents, 



Des lacs profonds, des frais ombrages 

 Et du murmure des leuillages 

 Qu'agite I'haleine des vents. 



As-tu vu les roses Colore? 

 As-tu rencontrfi des amantsf 

 Dis-moi I'histoire du printemps 

 Et les nouvelles de I'aurore. 

 Dis-moi si dans le fond des bois 

 Le rossignol, & ton passage, 

 Quand du traversais le bocage, 

 Faisait ouir sa douce voix. 



De Maistre.— ie Prisonnier et le Papillon. 



Imago (5:11; 13:5). Head covered above and down the middle with blackish 

 brown hairs ; behind, and also partly intermingling with the others, coppery fulvous 

 scales and forward curving hairs ; eyes encircled with silvery white, very broadly be- 

 hind, broadly in front, excepting next and just behind the antennae, where there is a 

 velvety black patch, the white border of the front passing, narrowly, inside the an- 

 tennae and terminating just behind it; the two belts are united by an equally broad 

 one just above the base of the tongue. Basal joint of antennae silvery white, the 

 stalk blackish brown above, interrnpted with white on the basal third or fourth of each 

 joint, beneath, especially on the outside, almost wholly white; club black above, 

 fuscous orange beneath, the basal half of the outside white, the apical joint, both 

 above and below, orange, brighter in the male than in the female. Palpi, excepting 

 the terminal joint, silvery white, the sides of the middle joint a little brownish at the 

 apes, and with a few black hairs mingled with the white ones forming the fringe of 

 its apical half ; apical half of the same joint tinged above with coppery, with inter- 

 mingled black scales, or, blackish brown with white scales ; apical joint blackish 

 brown, with some scattered white scales, especially within and beneath. Tongue 

 black throughout, the extreme tip pale. 



Thorax covered with mouse brown hairs haviug a metallic greenish tinge, on the 

 inner side of the patagia bluish, ou the sides of the prothorax grayish ; bene.ath 

 white. Femora and tibiae also white; the apical joint of the tarsi and thebasal two- 



