HESPERIDI: THANAOS BRIZO. 1501 



Erynnis brizo SciuUi., Syst. rev. Am. Imlt., Cuba, 10 (ISGo). 



51 (1872). :' Xisoniiiiles i/esta GuiuU., Eiit. cub., i : 145 



Papilio JKvena/is .''inith-Abb., Lep. ins. {11SJS2). 

 Geo.,t!ib. 21, fig. sup.; not text (1797). 



Papilio Abl)., Draw. ins. Geo. Br. Fi.nureil also by Abbot, Draw. ins. Ga., 



mus., vi : 74. figs. 99-101 ; xvi:49, tali. 175 (ca. Oeniler coll.. Bost. .soo. nat. hist., 30;— Glov., 



1800). III. N. A. Lep., pi. 29, figs. 4, 8: pi. B, fig. 12; 



? Achlyndes gesta Herr.-Schaelf., .Sohniett. pi. T. tig. 10, ined. 



See there! the waving butterfly. 

 With starting motion fluttering by. 

 From leaf to leaf, from spray to spray, 

 A thing whose life is holiday. 



M.iRY How ITT. —Spring. 



Imago (9: 3, 9; 13:17). Head covered with nearly uniform, dark brown hairs, 

 ofcasioiuilly tinged with purple ; the scales which encircle the posterior half of the eye 

 are scarcely paler, except in a minute dot behind the antennae; tuft outside of anten- 

 nae blacli. Palpi lieneath gray brown ; grayest near tlie base, beyond slightly tinged 

 with purple and often minutely pale-tipped; above, and to some extent outside, where 

 longer black hairs are intermingled, darker; apical joint dark brown, slightly paler 

 beneath. Antennae purplish black, the stalk narrowly annulated with white at the 

 base of each joint, often interrupted or indistinct above on the basal half; beneath, 

 posteriorly, wholly white, flecked with dusky at the apices of the joints, and on the 

 club forming an uninterrupted patch of white, grayish or yellowish toward the bor- 

 ders; beneath, anteriorly, the club is naked and blackish, scarcely tinged with cas- 

 teneons on the apical joint.* Tongne piceons. the extremity dull castaneous. 



Thorax covered witli dark brown, sometimes blackish, hairs above and below. Legs 

 nearly uniform dark purplish brown ; the tarsi sometimes a little paler, and the whole 

 more or less flecked with slightly paler grayish scales, especially on the inner surface; 

 spurs dark brown, paler beneath, tipped with dark reddish ; spines dull reddish luteous ; 

 claws reddish luteous at base, blackish toward tip ; pad blackish. 



Wings above very dark, grayish brown, scarcely tinged with fuliginous or mulberry, 

 the (J generally grayer, especially on the fore wing, in old individuals often almost 

 wholly cinereous. Fore icings almost uniformly, but not very heavily flecked on the 

 upper half of the wing with short white liairs and elougate white scales, occasionally a 

 little lilafeous; descending, also, upon the lower half in diminishing numbers along 

 the outer margin, and also occnpying all but the edges of the spots forming the trans- 

 verse bauds, where they are generally more tinged with lilaceous than elsewhere; 

 between the extra- and intra-mesial bands they are never (or if ever, in the slightest pos- 

 sible degree) more distinct or frequent than at the apex of the wing. An obscure, 

 scarcely distinguishable patch, scarcely darker than the ground color, is found at the 

 extreme base, and generally follows along the subcostal nervure to the dark intra- 

 mesial band ; the exterior limits of the latter can usu.ally be traced across the wing, . 

 and not infrequently its interior limits also, especially in the 2 ; it forms a nearly 

 equal, moderately broad sinuous band, expanding a very little at its extremities, 

 extending from the subcostal nervure, its outer limit just below the tip of the costal 

 fold of the male to the middle of the basal two-thirds of the submedian nervure; 

 when most complete, both its borders, but especially the exterior, have a tremulous 

 outline, and its breadth is similar to that of the extra-mesial band ; the lower half is 

 not infrequently subobsolete, and usually the interior is not so heavily flecked with 

 whitish scales as the next band. The extra-mesial dark band is always rather distinct, 

 pretty regularly arcuate, equal, its average breadth a little greater than the width of the 

 lower median interspace, very nearly parallel to the outer border, and extends from the 



• The form of the club in this species varies somewhat that of the neighboring genera 

 considerably from the typical form seen in the Pholisora and Hesperia,— particularly in the 

 other members of the genus, approaching brevity ancl hluntness of the apical portion. 



