HESPEIUDI: TIIANAOS MAIITIALIS. 1493 



fore unnecessary to say more than that every point in its history, to the 

 date of capture of each specimen and its condition, is desirable. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.— THANAOS TERENTIUS. 



General. PI. 36, figs. 17-20, 28, 29. Male abdominal ap- 

 PI. 2S, fig. C. Distrilnition in North America- peudagea. 



Imago. 47:9. Scales of the male imago. 



PI. 9, tig. 15. Female, both surfaces. 



GROUP III (m.artialis). 



Anteiinal club composed of twenty -one or twenty-two joints; fore wings with or 

 without suljapical vitreous spots ; hind coxae and tibiae with no special appurtenances ; 

 costal fold of fore wings of male with pediform bristles and apple-seed shaped audro- 

 conia ; upper organ of male abdominal appendages with an unarmed, laterally expanded 

 crest; terminal hooks separate, of moderate size; tooth stout, conical; clasps with 

 stout blades bent at right angles beyond the middle, the right lobe dactylate, the left 

 with united basal and median processes, unarmed. Eggs with eighteen or more verti- 

 cal ribs. Larval food, Leguminosae. Two broods annually in the northern United 

 States. 



Species : martialis, ausoniua. 



THANAOS MARTIALIS.— Martial's dusky wing. 



[Lea.st dingy skipper (Abbot) ; dark banded skipper (Maynard).] 



Nisoniades martialis Scudd., Trans. Chic. Papilio Abb., Draw. ins. Geo., vi: 74, 



acad. sc, i: 335 (1870);— Scudd.-Burg., Proc. fig. 43; xvi: 50, tab. 136 [error for 176] (ca. 



Bost. soc. nat. hist., xiii: 291-2, fig. 5 I, r, u 1800). 



(1870);— Park., Can. eut., iii: 113 (1871);- Thanaos quercus Boisd., Butl., Entom. 



French, Butl. east. U. S., 362-363 (1886). monthl. m.ag., vii : 97 (1870). 



Erynnis martialis Scudd., Syst. rev. Am. 



butt., 51 (1872). Figured also by Abbot, Draw. ins. Ga., 



Thanaos martialis Mayn., Butt. N.Engl., Oemler coll., Bost. soc. nat. hist., 31; — Glov., 



55, pi. 81, 81a (1886). III. N. A. Lep., pi. T, figs. 8, 14, ined. 



Die Liebliche, die zagend nur und lose 

 Der laue Hauch mit Geistcrlippen kiisst, 

 Indess von fern die Schraetti;rlinge flieijen 

 Und mit dem Duft bescheiden sich beguiigen. • 



ScHULZB. — Die bezauberte Rose. 

 When dafibdils begin to peer, — 



With, heigh ! the doxy over the dale, — 

 Why. then comes in the sweet o' the year; 



For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. 



Shakespeare. — Winter's Tale. 



Imago (9 : 12). Head covered with nearly uniform, very dark brown hairs, tinged 

 with purplish, those on the front, next the palpi, often almost entirely pale; a narrow, 

 but sometimes rather conspicuous belt of pale scales behind the eye, repeated above 

 behind the antennae at the border of the eye; tuft of bristles outside the antennae 

 black. Palpi covered with pale-tipped, very dark brown hairs, some shorter ones on 

 the sides uniform and paler than the base of the others; those on the inner side dark 

 slate blue ; the whole under surface, but especially the outer edge, covered with fre- 

 quent black bristles, a little longer than the scales; above, the scales are less frequently, 

 sometimes not at all, pale-tipped; terminal joint very dark brown aboye, slightly paler 

 beneath. Antennae dark purplish brown, the joints of the stalk marked inconspicu- 



