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actions seem particularly in kee[)ing with tlie notion that she is at work scent- 

 ifif/ the various plants tint liear a i^cneral rescmhlance in their aspect to the 

 plant which she seeks ; many, indeed, which have no such general appear- 

 ance, settling or half-settling in a dozen different places in the near vicinity 

 of the plant, reaching it by nearer and nearer approaches and finally 

 settling with satisfaction at the desired spot. To such an observer it will 

 seem tolerably clear that it is to the sense of smell that butterflies owe 

 their recognition of botanical species. 



POANES MASSASOIT.— The mulberry wing. 



[Yellow cross skipper (Mayiianl).] 



Hesperia massanoit Scudd.,Proc.Kss. iiist., figs. 89, 89a, b (1886). 



iii: 171 (1863). Foanes miissasoit Scudd., Syst. rev. Am. 



Pamphila massaaoit Kirb., Syii., cat. Lep., butt., 55 (1872). 



607 (1871);— French, Butt. east. U. S., 302 Figured by Glover, 111. N. A. Lep., pi. 23. 



(1886);— Mayn., Butt. N. Engl., 58-59, pi. 7, fig. 1, iiied. 



The butiertly, ^ay-paiiited soon. 

 Explores aw'hiie the tepid noon, 

 And fondly trusts its tender dyes 

 To fickle siins, and flattering ekies. 



Warton. — The first of April. 

 Round Massasoit's head 

 A halo bright is shed; 

 Though dim the records are. 

 His glory, like a star. 

 Shines through history's night, 

 Transcendent, clear, and bright. 



Tappan. — Hesperia. 



Imago (10:6). Head tufted above with greenish yellow hairs, with intermingled 

 black ones ; eyes black ; antennae above velvety black, with a purplish tinge, inter- 

 rupted at the bases of the joints with ochreous; beneath ochreous, graduating into a 

 sort of orange at tlie sides, slightly broken with blackish at the tips of the joints ; club 

 blackish brown above to the very tip ; beueath the same, but the base greatly infringed 

 on by the ochreous orange of the stalk, and the whole hook and three or four apical 

 segments of the club proper fuscous orange. Palpi covered beneath with pale ochreous 

 and dirty white scales, with a few intermingled longer black hairs; toward the tip and 

 above, the scales become more decidedly ochrey, and, as well as on the inner side, 

 are interrupted by a large number of blackish scales; terminal joint blackish brown, 

 mostly conce.iled by the tufts of lower joints; tongue dull black, tipped with dark 

 yellowish brown. 



Thoras covered above with purplish brown scales, concealed by long, ochraceo- 

 oUvaceous hairs, the front and outer edges of patagia with shorter tawny ones, the 

 prothoracic lobes with ochraceous-tipped, black, upright scales; beueath with inter- 

 mingled light ochrey-yellow and blackish hairs, the former in greater profusion ; 

 femora blackish, fringed along lower edge with light ochrey yellow hairs, with a few 

 intermingled black ones; tibiae and tarsi salmon brown, becoming gradually slightly 

 infuscated toward the tip ; spurs and spines of the same color, claws brownish fus- 

 cous. 



Wings above nearly uniform, slightly lustrous brown black, male with a very slight 

 mulberry tint, female with a more decided but not very brilliant dark violaceous tint; 

 the centre of the basal two-thirds of each wing with blackish purple reflections, the 

 base of the/ore wings in the interspaces slightly, and the whole inner border three- 

 fourths of the distance to the outer border, broadly and rather heavily fringed with 

 tawny hairs; fore wings of the female with three short and small, broad, rounded, 



