1458 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Extra-mesial band of fore wings removed by less than its own width from the apex of the cell. 

 Blades of clasp of male abdomen long as compared to the main body, strongly bent at ex- 

 tremity ausonius. 



Extra-mesial band of fore wings removed by more than Its own width from the apex of the 



cell. Blades of clasp of male abdomen short as compared to the main body, not bent 



strongly at apex. 



Species of moderate size. No distinct hoary patch between the upper halves of the two 



bands crossing the upper surface of the fore wings ; no hind tibial pencil of hairs in the 



male. Blade of right clasp stout; tip of right clasp broad and denticulate. Costal fold 



of fore wings with twisted ribbon-like scales brizo. 



Species of email size. A distinct hoary patch in the position indicated above ; a long hind 

 tibial pencil of hairs in the male. Blade of right clasp slender ; tip of right clasp slen- 

 der and smooth. Costal fold of fore wings with flagellate tapering scales icelus. 



GROUP I (lucUius). 



Antennal club composed of not more than eighteen joints ; fore wings with subapical 

 vitreous spots ; hind coxae of male with an auriculate process, and hind tibiae with a 

 basal interior pencil of hairs longer than the tibiae ; costal fold with both pediform 

 bristles and rod-like androconia ; upper organ of male abdominal appendages without 

 a crest; terminal hooks separate, slender; tooth reduced to a tubercle and bristle; 

 clasps with slender blades, the left with separated basal and median processes, both 

 unarmed. Eggs with less than fifteen, rarely as many as fourteen, vertical ribs. 

 Larval food, Ranunculaceae and Salicaceae. Two or three broods annually in the nor- 

 thern United States. 



Specibs : lucUiua, persius. 



THANAOS LUCILIUS.— Lucilius's dusky wing. 



[Five spotted banded skipper (Maynard).] 



Nisoniades lucilius Lintn., MS., Scudd.- Thanaos lucilius French, Rep. ins. 111., 



Burg., Proc. Bost. soc. nat. hist., xiii : 287-288, vii: 161-162 (1878); — Mayn., Butt. N. Engl., 



pi., fig. 2, u, 1, r (1870) ;— Pack., Can. ent, iii, vi : 54, pi. 7, figs. 78, 78a (1886). 



113 (1871);— Lintn., Ent. contr., i : 32-34, pi. 7, Nisoniades persius var. lucilius Streck., 



figs. 1-2 (1872) ; u : 60-61 (1872) ; iv : 67-68 (1878) ; Cat. Amer. Macrolep., 178 (1878). 

 -French, Butt. east. U. S., 357-359(1886)- 



Erynnis lucilius Scudd., Syst. rev. Am. Figured by Glover, 111. N. A. Lep., pi, T, 



butt., 51 (1872). figb. 3, 15, ined. 



Welcome, maids of honor, 



You do bring 



In the Spring, 

 And wait upon her. 



Herrick.— To Violets. 



"Doch sa^'! was ist's mit den Schraetterlingen?" 

 Die starben der Rose nach aus Schmerz. 

 Die Elfen nahmen die bunteu Sehwingeu 

 Zum Putz fiir die Damen bei Tanz und Scherz. 



SxLLE,T.—Mfenwirthschaft. 



Imago (9:4). Head covered above with long, maroon or purplish brown hairs, 

 mingled with a few paler, sometimes ashen gray hairs in front; beneath, the scales are 

 paler and a few pass around the hinder edge of the eye ; tuft of bristles outside of the 

 antennae black. Palpi pale purplisli brown beneath verging on ashen, especially 

 toward the basal joint, and pretty uniformly pale-tipped, even to a slight extent above, 

 where it is otherwise considerably darker ; outer surface covered rather abundantly 

 with long black hairs ; apical joint blackish brown, beneath flecked with grayish. 



