123U THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



LAERTIAS HUBNER. 



Laertias HUbn.. Ver/. l)ek. schiuett.. 84 (18111). Piipilio (pai-s) Aiictoruiu. 



'/'i/pe.—Papilio philenor Linv. 



Stay near me — do not take thy flight ! 



A little longer stay in sight! 



Much converse do' I lind in ihec, 



Historian of my infancy ! 



Float near me ;"do not yet depart ! 



Dead times revive in thee; 



Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art I 



A solemn image to my heart, 



My father's family! 



Oh! pleasant, pleasant were the days, 



The time, when in our childish plays, 



My sister Emmeline and I 



Together chased the butterfly ! 



A very hunter did I rush 



Upon "the prey: — with leaps and springs 



I followed onfron) brake to bush ; 



But she, God love her I feared to brush 



The dust from oft' its wings. 



WoRnswoRTH.— To a Butterfly. 



Imago (56:8). Head large, covered with not very long, erect hairs, behind the 

 antennae very short. Front very little tumid, a little protuberant in the middle of the 

 lovs^er border, on the lower half projecting somewhat beyond the front of the eyes ; at 

 the sides, especially above, the front is considerably depressed below the eyes, and 

 next the border there is a slight sulcation directed toward the outer edge of the an- 

 tennae, deeper than in the other genera; below the antennae the front is scarcely higher 

 than broad and a little more thanthree-(|uarters as broad as the eyes on a front view; 

 upper border projecting rather broadly to meet the vortex and in front of the antennae 

 it is sloped, scarcely rounded, not curving back again on their outer side; middle of 

 lower border rather strongly rounded. 'Vertex considerably tumid, especially in the 

 middle, protuberant at the outer anterior angles, slightly hollowfed in the middle in 

 front, with a short sulcation behind the middle of each antenna. Eyes very large, 

 very full, naked. Antennae inserted in the middle of the summit, separated by more 

 than half the diameter of the second antennal joint; a little longer than the abdomen, 

 composed of thirty-eight joints, each expanding at its apical extremity just enough 

 to enclose the base of the succeeding joint, the terminal ten or eleven forming a cylin- 

 drical club, flattened on the under surface, about three times as broad as the stalk 

 and four times as long as broad, the basal joints increasing so gradually that the limits of 

 the club are difficult to define ; afterwards more rapidly, largest on the third to the sixth 

 joints from the tip ; the apical two joints face a little outward and form a well rounded 

 tip, which is interrupted, especially in the female, by the minute conical extremity of 

 the apical joint ; edges of the joints continuous. Palpi very minute and slender, fringed 

 with long hairs and reaching the middle of the front of the eyes. 



Prothoracic lobes obsolete. Patagia small, twice as long as broad, flat, not arched, 

 slightly falciform, the posterior lobe tapering rapitlly to a blunt point, the inner edge 

 well rininded, the outer rather regularly concave, diminishing in size from the very 

 base. 



Fore wings (40 : 8) twice as long as broad, the basal half of the costal margin very 

 slightly convex, in the middle of the apical two-thirds scarcely inflected, next the tip 

 curving backward more strongly, the apical angle rounded off to a great degree; outer 

 border nearly straight, very little crenulate on the lower half, the subcostal region a 

 very little full, the direction of the border scarcely at an angle of +0° with the middle 

 of the costal border; inner border slightly and broadly sinuous, the outer angle well 

 rounded. First superior subcostal branch arising in the middle of the outer four-fifths 



