PAMPHILIDI: AMBLYSCIRTES SAMOSET. 1589 



AMBLYSCIRTES SAMOSET— Pepper and salt. 



[Little brown skiiiper (Abbot); yellow fringed brown skipper (Maynuril).] 



flesperia samoseJ Scudd., Proc. Ess. iust., see. Pliilad., ii; 507 (1864); Trans. Amer. 



iii : 17(i-177 (1863). entom. soc, i:2SS (1867). 



AiiMyscirles samoset Scudd., Syst. rev. Ilesperia alteriiata Grote-Robl, Trans. 



Am. butt., 54-55 (1872) ;— Fern., Butt. Me.. 104 Amer. eutoni. soc, i : 3-4 (1867). 



(1884);— Frencli, Butt. east. U. .S., 300-301 Papilio Al)b., Draw Ins. Geo. Br. 



(1886);— Mayn., Butt. N. Ensl., 58, pi. 7, figs. Mns., vi : 81, figs. 117-118; xvi: 58, pi. 85 (ca. 



87, 87a (188C). 1800). 



Hesperia herion Scudd., Proc. Ess. inst., Figured by Abbot, Draw. ins. Ga., Oemler 



iii: 176 (1863). coll., Bost. soo. nat. hist., 32;— Glover, 111. 



Hesperia nemoris Edw!, Proc. entom. N. A. Lep., pi. 29, fig, 6; pi. G, fig. 9?; pi. I, 



fig. 11?, ined. 



The butterfly and humljle-bee 



Come to the pleasant woods with me. 



Trowbridge.- iY«V?s?«mraer. 



Down the glen, across the mountain, 

 O'er the yellow heath we roam. 



\)AYS.l.¥.y:.—Sonyofthe tinmmer Winds. 



Imago (10: 1,3). Head covered above with pale yellowish green hairs and scales 

 mingled with many blackish ones, all collected into parallel transverse patches more 

 or less divided in the middle, in which tlie pale suiTonnd the dark scales and hairs; 

 pencil of hairs outside the antennae black ; beneath, the scales are white or pale yellow, 

 deepening into lemon or buflf yellow in a narrow belt Ijehind tlie eye, which extends to 

 the antennae. Palpi with the basal joint and extreme ijase of middle joint pale yellow ; 

 beyond clothed with nearly equally mingled pale yellow and black scales, the latter 

 rather more prof use above than elsewhere ; terminal joint black, yellow below exte- 

 riorly. Antennae black, interrupted on the basal half to third of each joint above 

 with very pale nacreous yellow; below, the yellow e.xtends over a greater space and 

 especially interiorly where it is nearly continuous ; on the lower inner side of the club 

 it is continuous, forming a large patch ; apical half of the club above velvety black 

 without aunulations; crook uaked, castaneous. 



Thorax covered above with mingled olivaceo-tawny and dark brown hairs, over- 

 lying dark purplish scales; below covered with pale dirty yellow hairs, mingled with 

 a few black ones on the coxae. Legs very pale bull', heavily flecked with dark purplish 

 brown on the upper surface of the tibiae and tarsi and on the sides of the femora; 

 spurs very pale buff, spines and claws luteous, occasionally tinged with castaneous. 



Wings above rich dark brown. Fore xoings with a transverse, straight or nearly 

 straight series of three very pale straw yellow or whitish longitudinal dashes ordinarily 

 less than twice as long as broad in the lowest three subcostal interspaces, the middle one 

 occasionally slightly removed toward the base of the wing ; the series lies at right 

 angles to tlie costal margin, just beyond the middle of the outer half of the wing. Two 

 spots of a similar color, but a little larger and quadrate, occupy the median interspaces, 

 and an inconspicuous minute spot or a mere dot the lower interspace beyond the cell, 

 all in a straight line running from the middle of the inner border to the uppermost 

 dark bar in the fringe of the outer border; traversing the cell just above the second 

 divarication of the median nervule is a pair of similar, minute, longitudinal spots, 

 the upper a little further removed from the base than the lower, scarcely more con- 

 spicuous than the uppermost median spot ; within the outer series of spots the wing 

 is rather abundantly sprinkled with longitudinal, greenish yellow scales, especially 

 along the costal border, often even to the tip of the wing, on the basal half of 

 the cell, along the edge of the inner border and in the lower median aud medio- 

 submedian interspaces as far as the second divarication of the median nervule; fringe 



