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THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.— IPHICLIDES AJAX. 



General. 

 PI. 26, fig. 7. Distribution in North America. 

 88 : 3. Trogus exesorius, a parasite. 

 Egg. 

 PI. 66, fig. 5. Outline. 



Caterpillar. 

 PI. 73, fig. 12. Caterpillar at liirth. 

 76:14. Mature caterpillar. 

 80: 13-16. Front view of head, stages ii-v. 



Vlirysalis. 

 PI. 85, fig. 11. Colored. 

 12. Outline. 



Imago. 

 PI. 15, fig. 11. Both surfaces. 



35 : 26-29. Male abdominal appendages. 

 41 : 1. Neuration. 



56:9. Side view, with head and appen- 

 dages enlarged, and details of leg structure. 



JASONIADES HUBNER. 



Jasoniades (pars) Hiibn., Verz. bek. schmett., 



83 (1816). 

 Euphoeades Scudd., Syst. rev. Amer. butt., 



a (1872). 

 (Not Euphoeades Hiibn.) 



Type. — rupilio glaucus Linn. 



A wild rose tree 

 Pavilions him in bloom, and he doth see 

 A bud which snares his fancy : lo! but now 

 He plucks it, dips its stalk in the water : how ! 

 It swells, it buds, it flowers beneath his sight; 

 And, in the middle, there is softly pight 

 A golden butterfly ; upon whose wings 

 There must be surely character'd strange things, 

 For with wide eye he wonders, and smiles oft. 



Lightly this little herald flew aloft, 

 Follow'd by glad Endymion's clasped hands: 

 Onward it flies. ..." 



Still his feet 

 Went swift beneath the merry-winged guide, 

 Until it reached a splashing fountain's side 

 That, near a cavern's mouth, forever pour'd 

 Unto the temperate air : then high it soar'd. 

 And, downward, suddenly began to dip. 

 As if, iithirst with so much toil, 'twould sip 

 The crystal spout-head : so it did, with touch 

 Most delicate, as though afraid to smutch 

 Even with mealy gold the waters clear. 

 But, .It that very touch, to disappear 

 So fairy-quick, was strange ! 



Keats, — Endymion. 



Imago (57 : 4). Head large but proportionally smaller than in tlie other genera of 

 Papilioninae, covered densely, in front of the antennae, with rather long, equ.al, for- 

 ward and upward directed hairs, behind tliem with short pile. Front (61:13) some- 

 what tumid, scarcely more so just below the middle, excepting above projecting 

 somewhat and almost equally beyond the front of the eyes ; excepting above, the sides 

 of the front are scarcely lower than the eyes ; next the border, on the upper third, is a 

 faint sulcation, diverging, directed toward the inner edge of the antennae; below the 

 antennae the front is scarcely broader than high, and slightly broader than the eyes on 

 a front view; the upper border projects rather narrowly between the antennae; lower 

 border rather strongly and largely rounded. Vertex somewhat tumid, particularly at 

 the sides, forming a very low and broad curving ridge, similar to Euphoeades, very 

 slightly depressed on either side of the middle, the portion in front of the ridge de- 

 pressed, nearly flat, ridged around the inner side of the antennae, and slightly where it 

 meets the front. Eyes very large, very full, naked. Antennae inserted with their 

 anterior edge in the middle of the summit, separated by half the diameter of the sec- 

 ond antennal joint; slightly larger than the abdomen, composed of forty joints, each 

 thickened a little at the tip, the apical twelve of which are not only flattened but a 

 little channelled, leaving the joints broader above than beneath; viewed from the side 

 the club increases in size so gradually as to make it difflcult to determine its com- 



