1558 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



its light-: — could be thrown upon them from one direction or another with- 

 out touching tlicni, and he found tlieni capable of changing their position, 

 some of tiiem from side to side, some from a pendant to a horizontal po- 

 sition, through an angle, varying in the species, of from 45° to 70°, or 

 even 90°, in order to present as little surface to the light as possible, to 

 get, as it were, in the shade ; some responded to changes as frequent as a 

 dozen in six hours. The ex()eriments were made with a number of 

 species ; one of them was an Ageronia, which, pendant when in the dark, 

 in the li<jht hugged the horizontal surface from which it hung so as to as- 

 sume the attitude of a girt Papilionid, whence arose, Miillcr believes, the 

 error of Lacordaire and others, who asserted Ageronia had a girt chrysa- 

 lis. As not a few of the chrysalids most frequently experimented on 

 died or produced crippled butterflies, Miiller believes that too much light 

 is injurious to them and reasoned that this movement was therefore one of 

 protection. But he found one very strange exception to the rest in a 

 species of Catonephele, which responded to his experiments in an exactly 

 opposite manner, bending to receive on its side the fullest amount of light 

 and reversing its position when the light was transferred to the opposite 

 quarter. Surely we have much yet to learn from apparently lifeless 

 chrysalids. 



ANCYLOXIPHA NUMITOR.— The least skipper. 



[Least yellow skipper (Abbot); bordered skipper (Harris); wee skipper (Scudder).] 



Hesperia numitor Fahr.,Entom. ayst., iii: Ancyloxipha numitor Feld.,Verh. zool.- 



324 (1793) ;— God., Encycl. in<?th., ix: 725,776- bot. gesellsch.Wien., xii: 477(1862) ;—Scudd., 



777 (1819) ; — Westw., Don. lus. Ind., 67, pi. Syst. rev. Am. butt., 53 (1872) ;— Fern., Butt. 



44, fig. 3 (1842). Me., 96 (1884) ;— French, Butt. east. U. S., 301 



Papilio numitor Abb., Draw. ins. Geo- (1886) ;— Mayn., Butt. N". Engl., 56-57, pi. 5, 



Br.Mus., vi: 96, figs. 144-146 ; — Herbst., Nat- figs. 84, 84a (1886). 



ursyst. ins. schiuett., xi : 390 (1804). Tliymeliciis puer HUbn., Verz. schmett., 



Erycina numitor God., Encycl. m6th., ix : 113 (1816) ;— Zutr. exot. schmett., ii: 17, figs. 



561,587(1819). 275-276(1823). 



Pnmpliila numitor Westw.-Hewits., Gen. Heteropterus marginatus Harr., Ins. inj. 



diurn. Lep., ii : 523 (1852) ;— Morr., Syn. Lep. veg., 3d ed., 308, figs. 131, 1.36 (1862). 

 N. Aracr., 120 (1862). 



Cyclopides numitor Bull., Catal. Fabr. Figured also by Glover, 111. N. A. Lop., pi. 



Lep., 279, syn. exel. (1869). 30, fig. 8 ; pi. 31, fig, 6, ined. 



Tkymelicus nttmiior Bull., Entom. mouthl. 

 mag., vii:94(1870). 



The innocent looks up with eyes 

 That know no deeper shade 



Than falls from wings of butterflies, 

 Too fair to make afraid. 



Katherlne Bates.— ^1 Song of Waking. 



Imago: (10:7; 13: 13). Head covered above with blackish scales, mostly con- 

 cealed by lemon yellow hairs, inclining to tawny, and with a few intermingled dark 

 brownish ones; beneath white, with a narrow belt of the same encircling the eye, ex- 

 cepting in front, and broken only by the pencil of black hairs on the outer side of the 



