1592 THE BUTTERFLIES OF XEAV EKGEAND. 



nois, Ml". Allen took it in an open grove and a timbered ravine ; and Mr. 

 Abbot savs it '•frequents the oak woods'" in Cieoriria. 



Desiderata- The rarity of this butterfly tempts one to enquire into its 

 cause ; especially as the insect belongs to a group which usually abounds 

 in individuals. Its somewhat anomalous distribution should be explained. 

 Its annual history has been meagrely sketched from insufficient data and 

 requires both veriKcation and extension. Where between West Virginia and 

 New England does it occur and where does it change from a single to two 

 broods a season? Nothing is known of the earlier stages but what may be 

 gleaned from Abbot ; its parasites and the flight and postures of the but- 

 terfly are quite unknown. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.-AMBLYSCIRTES SAMOSET. 



General. Imago. 



PI. 29, fig. T. Distributiou in Nortli America. PI. 10, fig. 1. FeiiLile, both .surface.?. 



Catejfillar. 3. Male, both surfaces. 



PI. 77, fig. 29. Mature caterpillar. 37:4. Male abtloiuinal .ippemlages. 



Chrysalis. 

 PI. 85, fig. 45. Chrysalis. 



SECTION II. 



Egfj uot so low as in the preceding section, the height usually more than two-thirds 

 the breadth, never ribbed. Caterpillar at birth with relatively long bristles on the ter- 

 minal abdominal segments, usually at least as long as the breadth of the head. Mature 

 caterpillar with a rounded head not any higher than broad, if as high, held only verti- 

 cally. Chrysalis not infrequently unimucronate in front. Imago with tlie anteunal 

 club always with a distinct, often a very long hook, the abdomen rarely surpassing the 

 hind wings, always tolerably stout; fore tibial epiphysis and middle pair of hind tibial 

 spurs always present; a discal stigma generally found on the fore wings of the male; 

 lateral arms of upper organ of male abdominal appendages free through at least much of 

 their course. 



Ge.vera : Poanes, Phycanassa, Atrytone, Hylephila, Erynnis, Atalopedes, An- 

 thomaster, Polites, Thymelicus, Limochores, Euphyes, Calpodes, Oligoria, 

 Lerema. 



POANES SCUDDER. 



Poanes* Scudd., Syst. rev. Amer. butt., 55 Hesperia pars Auctorum. 

 (1872). Pamphila pars Auctorum. 



Type.— Hesperia massasoit Scudd. 



Ne (may it be withouten perill spoken) 



The Archer god, the soune of Cytheree, 



Tliat joyes on wretched lovers to be wroken, 



And heaped spoylcs of bleeding harts to see, 



* Beares in his u iiigs so manie a changefiill token. 



Ahl my lifi;c i.iijil, forgive it unto mee, 



If ought iigaiust thine honour I have tokle ; 



Yet sure those wings were fairer manifolde. 



Spenser. — JUu iopotmos. 



Imago (59:1). Head moderately large, covered with short scales and moderately 

 long hairs, the latter arranged in transverse masses ; outside the antennal base a rather 

 slight, somewhat sprea(iing, tuft of not very loug, somewhat arcuate, bristly hairs, 

 directed outward and scarcely reaching one-third way around the semicircumference 



*irda, vai'w, one who dwells in the grass. 



