1604 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



full value. Up to the present no proper investigation has been made in 

 this direction ; only a few of the most patent of tricks and ways of butterflies 

 have been noted ; a wide and open field lies before the enquirer, and it is for 

 his use that I have tried to bring together in the present work a few facts con- 

 cerning the postures and behavior of butterflies in difi^erent circumstances. 

 These are, however, still too few whereon to base any general statements, 

 likely to require no important modification on future investigation, and I 

 leave them for the present barren of result, in the hope of enticing some 

 one to enter a promising field, and perchance relieve these facts of their 

 present stupidity. 



PHYCANASSA VIATOR.— The broad-winged skipper. 



Hesperia viator Edw., Proc. ent. soc. Phycanassa viator Scuild., Syst. rev. Am. 



Philad., iv : 202-203, pi. 1, fig. 5 (1865). butt., 50 (1872). 



Pamphilaviator \i\rh.,Syn. caX.'Lext.. 608 Isoteinon viator Hew., Cat. coll. diurn. 



(1871) ;— Speyer., Can. enl., xv: 147 (1883) ;— Lep., 228 (1879). 



French, Butt. east. U. S., 347-348 (1886). Figured also by Glover, 111. N. A. Lep., pi. 



I, fig. 17, ined. 



It was an hour of universal joy. 

 The lark was up and at the gate of heaven, 

 Singing, as sure to enter when he carue; 

 The butterfly was basking in my path. 

 His radiant wings unfolded. 



"RoG-R^s.— The Pilgrim. 



Imago (17:20). Head covered above and in front with mingled black and tawny 

 hair-like scales, tinged strongly with olivaceous, concealing the short, black-brown 

 scales of the base. Eyes edged behind with a narrow circlet of whitish scales, closely 

 appressed to the eye ; cornea black-brown, overhung by a compressed arching pencil of 

 mingled black and tawny bristles, the uppermost shortest and tawny. Antennae dark 

 brown above, clay brown on the lower outer surface as far as the middle of the club; 

 all the joints above flecked and apically narrowly annulate with clay brown as far as 

 and including the few basal joints of the club; club itself pretty uniform, blackish 

 brown, with purplish reflections over all the thicker portions above and on the sides, 

 as well as to a certain extent upon the apical half below; the hook naked beneath and 

 ferruginous, including the apical joints of the club proper, and furnished with short, 

 tawny bristles, about as long as the joints ; on the posterior face, however, the hook is 

 flecked somewhat profusely with clay yellow scales in a narrowing patch. Talpi dirty 

 ■white below, with a few intermingled long black scales; the apical joint black, the 

 upper surface and upper part of the sides of the middle joint with mingled black, ful- 

 vous and whitish scales; tongue black at base, beyond blackish castaneous, somewhat 

 tinged mesially with testaceous. 



Thorax covered above with purplish black scales concealed to a great extent by a 

 mass of long, olivaceous tawny hairs, intermingled with some blackish ones; femora 

 purplish black, flecked on all sides rather profusely with clay yellow scales and fur- 

 nished beneath with a few long, blackish and whitish scale-hairs ; tibiae much the same, 

 but not so dark at b.ase and rather more densely clothed; tarsi clay yellow beneath, 

 brownish above ; all the spines luteo-testaceous ; spurs the same, but clothed with pale 

 yellow scales to the blackish tip; claws testaceous; apical hairs white. 



Wings above blackish brown marked with dull tawny, and in the females with pale 

 yellowish white. Fore wings with a double rhomboidal spot near the apex of the cell, 

 either tawny '\$) ot pale yellowish white, flecked at the edges with brownish yellow 



