1646 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



ERYNNIS MANITOBA.— The Canadian skipper. 



Pampkila manitoba Sciidd., Mem. Bost. Pnmp/i!7aco?«»ia (pars) Streck., Cat. Aiiicr. 



soc. nat. hist., ii: 351, pi. 10, figs. 8-11; pi. 11, Maerolep., 1B7-168 (1S7S). 



figs. 7-S (1S74);— Spcyor, Can. eiit., xv:I43- [Xot I'apilio comma Linn.] 

 145 (1883) ;— Echv., ibid., 147-148 (1883). 



How sweet to listen to the dove 

 When all the rest forget to sing, 

 And watch the swallows wantoning. 

 And butterflies, the gold whereof 

 Comes sinking through the skies .above 

 Like feathers from an angel's wing. 



LouLS Belrose.— ilfidsMjnjner. 



Up and down, up and down, 

 I will lead them up and down. 



Shakkspeare.— il/!(?«Knwner-A75r/t«'s Dream. 



Imago (17 : 1, 4). Head covered above with mingled pale yellow, greenish yellow 

 and black hairs with many fnlvous ones at the sides, next the base of the overarching 

 pencil of fulvous and black hairs which extends above the eye ; behind the eye packed 

 with many pallid scales. Eyes black. Antennae pale tawny beneath, blackish brown 

 above, flecked with black scales ; the club blackish above with purplish and greenish 

 reflections, orange beneath and at the sides, pearly white on the outer side, the naked 

 portion including the hook black with ferruginous tinge. Palpi covered almost wholly 

 with greenish yellow scales and hairs with many intermingled white hairs on the sides 

 and beneath and a lateral fringe of forward projecting black hairs ; apical joint with 

 many intermingled black hairs above and a greater or sm.aller number of brownish 

 hairs below. 



Thorax covered above abundantly with dark greenish yellow scales, haviug a de- 

 cided ferruginous tinge, becoming paler posteriorly and all concealing the minute 

 black scales which cover the immediate surface ; beneath covered with pale greenish 

 yellow scales paler beneath than at the sides. Femora covered profusely with whitish 

 scales, but above and especially apically fulvous, and fringed with long, pale yellowish 

 green or whitish hairs; all the tibiae and tarsi thickly clothed with fulvous scales 

 above, with pallid scales beneath; the spines dark castaneous; the spurs the same, 

 tipped with blackish and heavily scaled beneath with white; claws blackish castane- 

 ous; pnlvilli black. 



Wings above tawny, more or less impure, and marked with brown of a lighter or 

 deeper tint, generally darker in the female than in the male. Fore wings with the 

 costal edge blackish brown, the outer margin broadly bordered with dark brown, hav- 

 ing an ill-defined interior border, but usually set off to a greater or less extent by the 

 extra-mesial row of spots, more distinct in the female than in the male, following the 

 usual course of these spots in this genus ; in the female, the basal half of the wing is 

 much obscured below the cell with blackish brown, sometimes rendered somewhat 

 obscure by a flecking of fulvous hairs ; especially are to be noted two large spots at 

 the base of the lower median interspace and in the medio-submedian directly beneath 

 it, spots which in the male are always fulvous. The discal stigma of the male (43 : 8) 

 consists of a slightly arcuate streak, broad at base and tapering .at tip, which extends 

 from the submedian nervure to the base of the second median nervule, composed of a 

 basal, velvety, black, roundish patch, a narrow streak of erect velvety rods, following 

 the lower margin of the cell, and beneath the latter and bounded basally by the 

 former a brown line almost entirely concealed by the roof-like arrangement of large, 

 steel-gray, overarching scales. Hind loings narrowly ((J) or broadly (?) bordered 

 with blackish brown on all the margins, the nervures often rendered distinct by the 

 same and a vague pale fulvous repetition, more distinct in the female than in the male. 



