IIESPERIDI: EUDAMUS PROTEUS. 1387 



I11U9. Liid. Ulr., 120(1882); —H.E.lw.,Stuud. Sajjra, Hist. imt. ile Cuba, 022,023(1857);— 



nat hist., ii : 475. 11^. (W3 (1884). Chapman, Can. cnt., xi : 193 (1879) ;— Comst., 



Cfoiiiurus proCeus lliibn.. Verz. schmctt., Rep. U. S. comiu. agric, 1880,269-270(1881); 



104 (1816);— But!., Catal. Fal.r. Lep., 2ol>-2«0 — Coq., Ucp. ins. III., .\;: 184 (1881);— French, 



(1869);— Gundl., Em. Cub., i: 169-170 (1881). Butt. oast. U. .S., 377-379 (1880) ; — Mayn., 



Hesperia proteusQoiX., Encycl. m6th., ix: Butt. N. E.. 52, pi. 0, figs. 72, 72a (1886). 



716, 743 (1819);— Poey, Mem. soc. econ. Hab., Eudamus (Goniurus) proieus Hcrr.- 



(2) iii:244 (1847);— Morr., Syu. Lep. N. A. SchaelT., Prodr. syst. Lep., iii:63 (1868). 

 106(1862). 



Eudamus proteiis Boisd.-LcC, LCp. Am6r. Figured by Abbot, Draw. ius. Ga., Oemier 



sept., pi. 69 (1833) ; — Blaui'h.-BrulliJ, Hist. coll., Bost. soc. nat. hist., 24;— Glov., III. N. 



nat. ins., iii : 468 (1840);— Chen.-Luc, Encycl. A. Lep., pi. 1, fig. 14 (3 figs.); pi. 29, fig. 1, 



hist. nat. Pap.. 223, tig. 374? (1853);— Lucas, ined. 



. . . TTiiendlich wunderbar Wesen ! 

 . . . Du bist so herrlich . . . 

 In ciner kriechenden Raupe, wie in deiu tlaiumeuden Cherub. 



Kleist. 



WTiat think'st thou of the gentle Proteus? 



Shakespeare.— Two Gentlemen of Verona. 



Imago. (15 : Ij Head covered above with rather dark grass or metallic green hairs, 

 mingled behind with yellowish green, in front with brownish ones ; tuft on either 

 side of the antennae composed of dark brown hairs ; beneath sordid white, with a 

 yellowish tinge, passing upward in a slender line to the middle of the hinder border 

 of the eye; palpi similarly colored on the basal joint; middle joint the same, but 

 profusely and beneath pretty uniformly tlecked with brown scales, which on the 

 outside and above become elongated, more frequent and are mingled with black 

 bristles externally, with greenish elongated scales above; apical joint brown, beneath 

 almost wholly dull white; antennae pretty uniform, very dark brown, the club and 

 crook clay yellow beneath, the latter elsewhere naked and dull castaueous. 



Thorax covered above with long green hairs, having a slight olivaceous hue in front, 

 and a slight plumbeous one behind ; beneath with mingled pale brownish purple 

 scales and yellow and brownish hairs. Legs very dark brown, often with a dark 

 olivaceous or purplish tinge, Hecked infrequently with yellow scales, but aloug the 

 posterior half of the tibi.io and tarsi and at the extreme tips of the tibiae and basal 

 joints clay or brownish yellow ; under surface of femora pale or nacreous ; leaf-like 

 appendage of fore tibiae luteo-castaneous ; spurs brovrn above, clay yellow beneath, 

 reddish at tip; spines reddish brown; claws the same but darker; pad brownish 

 fuscous. 



Wings above very dark chocolate brown ; fore wings covered pretty profusely on the 

 lower half, and especially toward the base, with olivaceous green hairs, directed 

 downward and outward ; the veins are often darker than the ground color ; crossing 

 the middle of the wing in a scarcely arcuate line, its convexity inward, from the 

 middle of the basal four-fifths of the costal margin to the outer margin, in the middle of 

 the lower half of the medio-submedian interspace, is a series of four irregular, unequal, 

 subfenestrate white spots, the lowermost of which is slightly outside of the straight 

 line, which may touch the ceutres or the interior limits of the others; the upper, 

 above the subcostal nervure, is subquadrate and double, longitudinally divided ; the 

 second, which crosses the cell, is about as broad as long above, but narrows below, 

 and is constricted in the middle ; the third in the lower median interspace is largest, 

 subfiuadrate, but approaching the shape of that in the cell ; while the lowest, in the 

 upper half of the medio-submedian interspace, is usually the smallest and attenuated 

 below ; these spots are sometimes so closely connected as almost to form a band ; 

 another spot, similar to that in the lower median interspace, but usually slightly 

 smaller, is found in the middle of the basal two-tlilrds or four-flfths of the upper 

 median interspace ; toward the apex of the wing, depending from the middle of the 



