1418 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



ACHALARUS LYCIDAS — The hoary edge. 



[White bordered iiuderwing skipper (Abbot); glaucous winged skipper (Maynard).] 



Fapilio lycidas Smith-Ahh.,Le-p. ins. Geo., Achalnrus lycidas Scudd., Syst. rev. Am • 



: 39-40, pi. 20 (1797) ;— Abb., Draw. ins. Geo. butt., 50 (1S72). 



Br. Mus., xvi: 41, pi. 11 (ca. 1800). Goniloha lysidas Butl., Entom. moutli. 



Ilesperia lycidas God., Encycl. mCth., ix: mag., 56 (1870). 



718, 751 (1819) ;— Korr., Syn. Lep. N. Amer. Proteides lyciades Hiibn., Verz. schmett., 



106(1862). 105 (1816); Zutr. exot. schmett., iv: 10-11, 



Eudamus lycidas Boisd.-LeC, Lip. Amir. figs. 621, 622 (1832). 



Sept., pi. 71 (1833) ;— French, Rep. ins. 111., vii : Papilio hedysaricm Abb., Draw. ins. Geo, 



162 (1878) ; Butt. east. U. S., 370-371 (1886) ;— Br. Mus., vi : 67, figs. 88, 89 (ca. 1800). 



Mayn., Butt. N. Engl., 53, pi. 6, figs. 74, 74a Papilionides carol. fuscaFet., Gazoph., i: 



(1886). 4, pi. 32, fig. 5 (1709). 



Goniuris lycidas Weid., Proc. entom. see. 



Philad., il : 538 (1864). Figured by Abbot, Draw. Ins. Ga., Oemler 



Thymele iycWas Kirb., Syn. cataJ. Lep. ,571 coll., Bost. soc. nat. hist.25; — Glov., 111. N. A. 



(1871). " Lep., pi. 1, fig. 13 (2 figs); pi. 35, fig. 10, ined. 



Hurt no living thing: 



Ladybird, nor butterfly. 

 Nor m'oth with dusty wing, 



Nor cricket chirping cheerily, 

 Nor grasshopper so light of leap, 



Nor dancing gnat, nor beetle fat, 

 Nor harmless worms that creep. 



Christina Rossetti. 



... By day my limbs, by night my mind, 

 For thee and "for myself no quiet find. 



Shakespeare. — Sonnet. 



Imago (9:11). Head covered above with blackish fuliginous and brownish fuliginous 

 scales and hairs, and a few yellowish hairs toward the sides, the scales partly concealed 

 by a profusion of purplish hairlike scales, intermingled with which are a very few pale 

 ones; tuft on either side of the antennae blackish brown, overlaid by yellowish white 

 hairs at the base ; beneath pale yellow, extending in a very narrow rim around the hinder 

 part of the eye, scarcely extending above ; palpi gray from a nearly equal proportion of 

 whitish and rather pale fuliginous scales, commingled with not infrequent but slenderer 

 blackish brown ones ; on the outer side and at the extreme tip they are little more uni- 

 formly dusky, sometimes blackish, and the black bristles are frequent on the exterior 

 half ; apical joint fuliginous, flecked beneath with pale. Antennae blackish brown above, 

 flecked alittle, and especially on basal parts of the club, with pale yellowish ; beneath pale 

 dull yellowish or silvery gray, vaguely interrupted at the tips of the joints with dusky 

 or blackish, especially anteriorly; the anterior surface of the crook and the apex of the 

 club naked and dull, dark castaneous. 



Thorax covered above and beneath with blackish brown hairs often tinged with pur- 

 ple and mingled with many grayish olivaceous or yellowish hairs. Legs purplish 

 black, the femora and tibiae flecked sparsely with pale yellow scales and fringed with 

 hairs like those of the under surface of the body ; leaf -like appendage of fore legs glis- 

 tening brownish yellow: tibiae and tarsal joints distinctly but rather narrowly tipped 

 with pale scales, most heavily on the inner side ; spurs p.ile yellowish on the surface fac- 

 ing the leg, blackish on the opposite ; spines dark reddish luteous ; spurs the same, but 

 darker at the tips ; pad dusky. 



Wings above very dark brown, usually with an olivaceo-purplish tint, the fore wings 

 generally flecked throughout very faintly and scantily with yellowish scales. Fore 

 wings with a mesial band of flve very unequal, glistening, amber colored spots, separated 

 bythenervuresonly, four of which spots lie in a straight line drawn from the middle or 



