IIKsrKKlDl: Kl'AKCVltKIS riTYUUS. 



1399 



flci<liy filiunentfi. otU'ii oriiiigc I'oloicd in uliolc or in part, iti vivid (•(intrast 

 to tlie velvoty black body. 



Tlie licad, as tlie only rorncous portion of tlic w hulc iicatuix', is not iinfre- 

 qiiently adorned w itli linriiy ornanicnts of a peculiar kind : tliii.s the cater- 

 pillars of Polyyonia iiuvc eaeli iienii.'^pliere of the lieail ert)\vncd by a long 

 spiuc bearing subsidiary spinulcs and whorls round tiie suinuiit ; the cater- 

 pillars of Basilarchia a great round knobbed tubei'cle, and those of Cldorippe 

 seem to wear an Elizalx than frill of spines around the whole posterior part 

 of the head. In some, as in Satyrodcs and Enodia, each hemisphere of the 

 head is prolonged to a long conical point, which the caterpillar presents 

 to fullest view when at rest by bending it,-; iiead over upon the face and leav- 

 ing these horns, which naturally rise erect, extt'uding straight forward ; to 

 match them, the hinder extremity of the body bears an enormous pair of 

 similar horns, extending straight backward, while to add to the effect the 

 body is striped with colored bands uniting the horns of the two extremities. 

 AVe have mentioned but a few^ and not all even of the most striking of our 

 caterpillars, limiting ourselves to our own fauna, to show that even in such 

 a narrow field one niav find manv curious forms. 



EPARGYREUS TITYRUS.— The silver-spotted hesperid. 



[Wliit<^5(jotti-il skipper (CiossL-); locust skipper Imtterlly (Packard); silvcr-spotteil skipper 



(iMayuard).] 



I'npilio tili/rus Fabr!, Syst. entoiu., 532 

 (1775);— Smilli-Abt^., Lep. ius. Ga., 37-38, pi. 

 19 (1797),— .\1>1)., Draw. ins. Ga. Rrit. Mils., 



vi : 66, fijrs. 86,87 (ca. 1800). 



Ilesperui titynis (pars) Abb., Draw. ins. 

 Ga., Gray coll. Bost. soc. nat. hist., .iS (ca. 

 1.800);— (pars) God., Encycl. inetb., i.\:71(i, 

 743(1819). 



Eiidamiis tili/rus Boisd.-LeC, LSp. Am(?r. 

 Sept.. pi. 72 (1833) ;— Agrass., Class, ins., 8-14, 

 pi., ti^'. 1-23 (ISoO) ;— Emm., Agrio. N. Y., v: 

 215, pi. .38, fiss. 4. oef (1854) ;— Gosse, Alab., 

 86(1859);— D'Urb., Can. nat., v: 246 (1860); 

 — Harr., Ins. iuj. veg., .3d ed., 310-312, tig. 13;^, 

 134, pi. 5, fig. 1 (1862) ;— French, Rep. ins. 

 111., vii: 163 (1878); Butt, e.ist. U. S., .374- 

 377, tig. 89 (1886) :— Middl.. Rep. ins. III., x: 

 98 (1881);— Coq., ibid., 153 (1881); — I'ack., 

 Bull. U. S. ent. coram., vii: 100 (1881);— 

 Aaron, Pap., iv : 26-30 (18&4);—Mayu., Butt. 



Alles, was von dir niir kam, 

 Sterbenddank' ich dir cs jetzt : 



Alter Liifte Morgcnzug, 

 Dem ich sommerlang gebebt, 

 Aller .<chniettcrlinire Flug, 

 Die uni mich iin Tanz geschwebt. 



RtJCKERT.— Z>i« sterbende Bliime. 



Imago (9:8: 15 : 3~i. Head covered above with dnll, tawny-tipped, dark brown 

 scales and hairs; the tuft on either side of the antennae black, supported at base by 



N. E., 52-.^)3, pi. 6, figs. 73, 73 a (1886). 



Goniloba titijncs Westw.-Hew., Geu. 

 diurn. Lep., ii:512 (1852);— Lucas, Sagra, 

 Hist. nat. de Cuba, 632 (1857);— Jlorr. Syn. 

 Lep. JJ. Amer., 112 (1862). 



Te/egonus tlt>/rus But!., C.atal. Fabr. Lep. 

 2G3 (1S69). 



Tfii/iiiele <!(yr«s Kii'b., Syn. catal. Lep., 571 

 (1871). 



Epiirr/yreus tityrus Scudd., Syst. rev., 

 Amer. imtt., 49 (1872); Butt., 107, figs. 63-65, 

 91-93, 172, 180, 101 (1881). 



Goiii'irh tili/nis Bnrm., Rev. mag. zool., 

 1875, 54(1875). 



Papilio darns Cram., Pap. exot., i:C6, 

 1.52, pi. 41, figs. E.F. (1779). 



Eiicrr/i/reiis clarus Hiibn., Verz. schmett., 

 105 (1816). 



t Figured also by Glover, III. N. A. Lep., pi. 

 1, fig. 15 (3 figs.); pi. 29,.fig..2, ined. i j 



I go, I go; look how I go. 



Swifter than arrow fro1n the Tartar's bow. 



Sh A KESPE.A RE.- J/i'(?s II mmer-Nigh t's Dream . 



