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THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



or heard of were taken in the first half of July, excepting that Mr. Emery 

 took one in June. Apparently there is only a single brood, for a caterpillar, 

 evidently from a July egg, became full grown very late in the season, and 

 not having changed to chrysalis by the middle of October, was then placed 

 in the cold storage house, but did not survive the winter, nialdng it more 

 apparent tliat the winter is passed in chrysalis. 



Desiderata. So little is definitely known concerning the distribution 

 of this butterfly, away from the southern Atlantic states, and of the de- 

 tails of its history, while all else is wholly unknown, that every fact is of 

 importance. Care, however, should be taken that the insectMs not con- 

 founded with its congener. 



LIST OF ILLUSTBATIONS. 



General. 

 PI. 27, fig. 7. Distribution in North America. 



PI. 66, fig. 9. Colored. 



Caterpillar, 

 PI. 76, fig. 32. Mature caterpillar. 



80 : 6. Front view of head, in stage v. 



-THORYBES BATHYLLUS. 



Clirysalia. 

 PI. 85, fig. 24. Chrysalis. 

 Imago. 

 PI. 17, fig. 18. Both surfaces. 



35 : 38. Male abdominal appendages. 



THORYBES PTLADES.— The northern cloudy-wing. 



[Dark brown tailed skipper (Maynard).] 



Eudanuis pylades Seudd., Proc. Bost. soc. 

 nat. hist., xiii: 207 (1870) ;— Fern., Butt. Me., 

 106, fig. 35 (1884) ;— French, Butt. east. U. S. 

 368-369, fig. 88 (1886) ;— Mayn., Butt. N. Engl. 

 53-54, pi. 7, figs. 76, 76a (1886). 



^thilla pylades Kirb., Syu. cat. Lep., 578 

 (1871). 



Thoryhes pylades Scudd., Syst. rev. Am. 

 butt., 50 (1872) ; Butt, 305, figs. 1, 188 (1881). 



Sesperia bathyllus Harr., Hitchc. Rep., 590 

 (1833). 



Insect lover of the sun, 

 Joy of thy dominion ! 

 Sailor of the atmosphere ; 

 Swimmer through the waves of air; 

 Voyager of light and noon ; 

 Epicurean of June ; 



Aught unsavory or unclean 

 Hath my Insect" never seen; 

 But violets and bilberry bells, 

 Maple-sap and dattbdels, 



Eudanius bathyllus Harr., Ins. inj. Veg. 

 3d ed., 312, fig. 135 (1862) ;— H. Edw., Stand, 

 nat. hist., ii : 475, fig. 604 (1884). 



Eudamus bathyllus var. pylades Streck., 

 Catal. Amer. Macrolep., 162-163 (1878). 



Hesperia sp. Harr., ent. corr., 281 (1869). 



Figured also by Glover, III. N. A . Lep., pi. 29, 

 fig. 10, ined. 

 (Not Papilio bathyllus Sm.-Abb.) 



Clover, catchfly, adder's-tongue 

 And brier-roses, dwelt among ; 



Seeing only what is fair, 

 Sipping only what is sweet. 

 Thou dost mock at fate and care. 

 Leave the chafl', and take the whesit. 



E.vrERSON.— The Humble-Bee. 



Imago (9 : 5 ; 13 : 15). Head covered .above with dark brown, mingled with rather 

 pale yellowish brown scales and hairs, a slender rim behind the middle of the eye 

 generally palest, the tuft on either side of the antennae blackish ; palpi of mingled dark 

 and pale fuliginous brown scales vei-y sparsely flecked with pale scales and sprinkled, 

 especially e.^teriorly, with black bristly scales; apical joint dark brown tipped with a 

 few pale scales ; interiorly the palpi are dust colored ; antennae blackish brown above 

 with a maroon tinge, the whole stalk, excepting next the base, flecked heavily with the 

 silvery or dust colored gray which covers the rest of the antennae ; the anterior surface 

 of the crook and the extremity of the club are naked and dull castaneous. 



