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THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



HESPERIAMONTIVAGA— The variegated tesseUate. 



[Black and white skipper (Abbut); tlie Georgian grizzle (Uawortli) ; checkered Hesperia 



(Grote).] 



Pyrr/iis mnntivaffiis Reak., Proe. acad. nat. 

 sc. Pbilad., ],S66, 334 (1866). 



Hesperia tessellata Scudd., Syst. rev. Am. 

 butt., 152-53 (1872). 



Pi/i-ffiis tessellatiis Hew., Cat. coll. diurn. 

 Lep., 231 (1879);— French, Butt. east. U. S., 

 352-353, tig. 86(1886). 



iSyrichtus communis Grote, Can. eut, iv: 

 69-70 (1872). 



Hesperia albovittata Grote, MS. (Cf. Bull. 

 Butr. soc. nat. sc, i : 168—1873). 



Papitio syrichlus Abb., Draw. ins. Geo. 

 Brit. Mus., vi: 78, figs. 110-112 (ca. 1800). 



Pyrcpts syrichlus Streck., Cat. Amer. 

 Macrolep., 176 (1878). 



Papilio nileusTI'dW., Trans. ent..soc. Lond., 

 i:334 (1812). 



Syrichtus oilus'M.m-r., Syn. Lep. N. A., 121 

 (1862). 



Papilio Abb., Draw. ins. Geo. Brit. 



Mus., xvi: 54, tab. 137 (ca. 1800). 



AI.so figured by Abbot, Draw. ins. Ga., 

 Gray coll., Bost. soc. nat. hist., 61;— Glov.,111. 

 N. A. Lep., pi. 19, figs. 9, 11 (?) ; pi. 29, fig. 12; 

 pi. U, fig. 4, ined. 



[Not Pap. oileus Linn. ; nor Pap. syrichtus 

 Fabr.] 



"With a step and a iiound. 

 With a frisk from the ground, 

 I'll trip like any fairy. 



As once on Ida dancing 



Were three celestial bodies : 

 With an air, and a face. 

 And a shape and a grace, 



I'll charm, like beauty's goddess. 



D'Urfey.— TAe Lady distracted with Love. 



A butterfly basked on a baby's grave. 



Where a lily had chanced to grow : 



"Why art thou here with thy gaudy dye, 



■WTien she of the blue and sparkling eye 



Must sleep in the churchyard low?" 



Then it lightly soared thro' the sunny air, 



And spoke from its shining track : 

 "I was a worm till I won ray wings, 

 And she whom thou mourn'st, like a seraph sings, 



W'dst thou call the blest one back?'' 



SlGOURKET. 



Imago (15:9). Head covered above with bluish gray hairs, with some inter- 

 minirled black ones, especially across the middle; beneath covered with white scales, 

 which extend in a narrow belt behind the eyes, becoming a little yellowish above, 

 interrupted narrowly a little behind the antennae, but extending to the middle of the 

 front; tuft of hairs outside of antennae black. Palpi white, with a few delicate black 

 hairs scattered throughout, but more abundant toward the apex, where they form a 

 distinct annulus around the base of the apical joint, heaviest above ; apical joint black, 

 heavily flecked or wholly covered with white beneath. Antennae black or blackish 

 brown, interrupted narrowly above, at the base of all but six or eight of the basal 

 joints, and including also the joints of the club, with white; the whole under surface 

 and also, on the six or eight basal joints, the anterior surface continuously white, 

 tinged with nacreous, including the basal fourth of the club ; rest of under surface of 

 club and whole of its apical joint naked and dark castaneous. 



Thorax covered above with bluish gray hairs, becoming browni.sh gray posteriorly ; 

 beneath with white hairs tinged slightly with dirty yellow. Legs nacreous white, the 

 fringe of femora mostly white but with intermingled black hairs; sides of the femora 

 often flecked with brown ; the front of the tibiae, excepting of the fore legs, and of all 



