1314 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Miildl., Rep. ins. III., x: 74 (1881) ;— Auriv., schmctt., ii. Lop. i, Pap. ii, Gent. ii,Archontcs 



Lep. Miis. Lud. Ulr.. 12 (1882);— Grub., Jen. A, lieroic'i 4, (igs. 1-2 (1820-1821);— Scudd., 



zeit^ehr. naturw., xvii : 471-472, pi. 7, figs. P.syche, i: 131-132 (1876); Butt., 304, 309, figs. 



12-15 (1884); Pap., iv: 87, pi. 2, figs. 12-15 50,61,53,00,173(1881). 



(1884) ;— Jl.iyn., Butt. N. E., 49-50, pi. 7, figs. Papilio ilioneus Smith-Al)b., Lep. ins. Ga., 



68, 68a (1886). i:3, 4, pi. 2 (1797);— Abb., Draw. ins. Ga. 



Ptcroiirus troiius ScoTp., IntTod. hist, nat., Brit. Mus., xvi: 20, pi. 77 (ca. 1800) ;— Feld., 



433 (1777);— Scudd., Syst. rev. Amer. butt., 44 Spec. Lep. hue. descr., 27-28, 75 (1864). 



(1872). Figured also by Glover, III. N. A. Lep., pi. 



Euphoeades troilus Httbn., Samml. exot. 1, fig. 3?4?; pl.29, fig. 9 (ined). 



I'll tell you them 

 all bv their names as they pass tiy ; but mark 

 Troilus above the rest. 



Shakissveare.— Troilus and Cressida. 

 When bursting forth to life and light, 



The offspring of enraptured May, 

 The Butterfly on pinions bright. 

 Lauueh'd in full splendour on the day. 



Her slender form, ethereal Iig:ht, 

 Her velvet-textured wings infold ; 



With all the rainbow's colours bright. 

 And dropt with spots of burnished gold. 



The Butterfly's Birthday. 



Imago (8 : 4, 5). Head black; a small, circular, straw yellow spot, with occasional 

 long, black scales just behind and outside of the base of either antenna; in front, next 

 the eye, but separated from it by a narrow line of black hairs, is a longitudinal, 

 straw yellow spot, extending from the base of the antennae to the tip of the palpi; a 

 yellow spot next the base of the palpi beneath. Antennae uniform black, with a few 

 irregularly scattered white scales. Palpi clothed with yellow hairs exteriorly, with 

 black hairs interiorly, the former forming a band in exact continuation of that above, 

 beside the eye. Tongue uniformly blackish brown throughout, the coil 3 mm. in 

 diameter; papillae (61 : 5fi) very few and distant, appearing as mere hemispherical 

 protuberances on the middle of each maxilla near the tip. 



Prothorax black with two small, yellowish spots above, on either side, anteriorly 

 and two similar posterior ones; rest of thorax above black or blackish brown, the 

 patagia black, delicately edged on either side with a slender row of inconspicous, yellow 

 hairs: beneath, the thorax is warm blackish brown; at the base of each wing is a small, 

 roundish, yellow spot; between the middle and posterior coxae are two somewhat 

 similar but less distinct spots, the lower somewhat linear and obscure, both, with the 

 spot at the base of the fore wings, forming a straight row of equidistant spots; there 

 is a similar series of spots behind the posterior co.xae and including the spot at the 

 base of the hind wings. Femora black with a long, triangular spot of yellowish scales 

 at the tip above, its base resting on the tip ; tibiae and tarsi dark brownish black, the 

 last tarsal joint a little paler at apex; foliate appendage of fore tibiae dirty pale 

 brownish, darkest above; spurs dull red, black at base; claws dull reddish, weakly 

 curved, very slightly divaricate, long and pointed. 



Wings above blackish, lustrous, velvety brown; the apical half of the /ore xoings 

 not quite so dark in the female, with black nervures ; a submarginal row of roundish, 

 pale straw colored spots, their edges obscured by an intermingling of black scales, 

 distant from the margin by half the width of an interspace, occupying the seven lower 

 interspaces, decreasing consideralsly in size from below upward, the lowermost double 

 and extending nearly across the medio-submedian interspace, the uppermost some- 

 times no broader than the antennal stalk ; a little within this row of spots, below the 

 submedian nervure, is a small, longitudinal patch of pale yellowish green scales, and 

 in the interspace above, a diagonal streak of similar scales; sometimes a very few 

 scattered scales of the same color will be found in each of the median interspaces, 

 forming, with those previously mentioned, a transverse row subparallel to the sub- 



