1600 THE BUTTERFl.lES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



PHYCANAS8A SCUDDEH. 



Phycanassa* Scudd., Syst. rev. Ainer. butt., Hesperin pars Auctonmi. 

 56 (1872). I'ampliila purs Auotorum. 



Type. — Hesperia viator Edw. 



O this quaint and fpiiet Quaker, 

 Bended bead would never make her 

 More discreet or niodester : 

 But the Gallants pass her by. 

 For with tender, steadfast eye, 

 Straijiht she looks up at the 'sky ! 

 Surely now, some brighter hues, 

 'Stead of lavenders and blues. 



Would ileli.i,'ht some jolly fellow, — 

 Kusset Bee. with bands of yellow, 

 Or a sailing Butterfly, 

 At her feet would love and sigh,.. . 

 But to talk 's no use, I know. 

 Still in sober dress she 'II go. 

 And her love of heaven will show ! 



Margaret Deland.— iToMjitonia caerulea. 



Imago C59: 2j. Head larf;e, provided above with two broad, transverse patches of 

 moderately long, erect hairs in front of and behind the antennae ; at the outer base of the 

 antennae a compressed, arcuate pencil of moderately long bristles, arching over the eye, 

 directed outward and somewhat forward, the lower bristles the longest. Front gently 

 tumid, a little and equally surpassing the front of the eyes, nearly three times as broad 

 as high, separated from the vortex by a delicately and scarcely impressed, straight 

 sulcation, which at its extremities curves gently and sliglitly backward to the middle 

 of the inner base of the antennae; either half of the front margin gently convex, the 

 middle of the whole being broadly emarginate ; the sides nearly straight, almost reaching 

 the outer edge of the autenual pits. The vertex slightly tumid by being arched longitudi- 

 nally across its whole breadth, but transversely scarcely convex with a faint depression 

 in the middle, just rising to the height of the eyes, crossed at its summit by a faintly 

 convex, scarcely elevated, fine ridge, the opening of its convexity backward, separated 

 from the occiput by a bent or arcuate, broad and faintly impressed sulcation by which 

 it is lengthened posteriorly so as to be nearly twice as long as the front. Eyes very 

 large, very full, n.aked. Antennae inserted near the front of the summit, their interior 

 edges separated by a space nearly four times as great as the width of the basal joint, a 

 little shorter than the abdomen, composed of forty -four joints of which twenty-four 

 form the club, which is about three and a half times longer than the stalk, bent to form a 

 crook, beyond the middle of the apical three-fifths; the portion before the bend increases 

 regularly and very gradually in size on its proximal half and then remains of nearly 

 the same breadth, about equalling the length of two joints, until just before the hook ; 

 this consists of about eleven joints and tapers gradually to a fine point, in the basal third 

 more rapidly than beyond ; the joints of the middle of the stalk are about three and a 

 half times longer than broad. Palpi moderately stout, the basal joints very heavily 

 and rather loosely clothed with long scales, beyond which the greater part of the 

 apical joint projects, clothed only, but lieavily, with recumbent scales; basal joint 

 subglobular, produced a little apically at the upper inner portion, broader than long; 

 the middle joint large, tumid, ovate; apical joint slender, elongate, cylindrical, longer 

 than the breadth of the middle joint and about four times as long as broad. 



Protlioracic lobes large, appressed, laminate, subcuneiform ; when viewed from the 

 front, narrowing from above downward, the upper surface convex, the interior edges 

 attingent. Patagia large, the posterior lobe large, broad, equal to the rounded tip, 

 half as broad as the base and as long as it; the whole piece somewhat shorter than the 

 breadth of the head. 



* i)>tiKos, avo<r<ro, a painted lady. 



