1650 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



ERYNNIS METEA.— Cobweb skipper. 



[Cobweb skipper (Scudder) ; White banded skipper (Maynard).] 



Hesperia inetea Scudd., Proc. Ess. inst. figs. 88, 88a (1886). 



iii: 177-178 (1SG3);— Min., Proc. Best. soc. Ocytes metea Scudd., Syst rev. Am. Ijutl., 



nat. hist., xii : 319-320 (1869). 65 (1872) ; Butt., fig. 45 (1881). 



Pamphila mtteo Kirb., Syn. catal. Lcp., Isoteinon metea Hew., Cat. coil, diuni. 



607 (1871); — French., Butt. east. U. S., 30U- Lep., 228 (1879). 

 307 (1886);— Mayn., Butt. N. Engl., 68, pi. 7, 



Happy creature ! what Ijelow 

 Can more happy live than thou? 



Sipping o'er the pearly lawn 

 The fragrant nectar of the dawn. 



Anacrkon. 



Imago (10:5, 11). Head and collar with transverse ridges of loner, blackish 

 scales, edged and tipped very frequently with fulvous and paler ones. Palpi plump, 

 with long white scales, with a few intermingled pale fulvous and black scales, covered 

 with black scales above, where concealed by their position next the head ; apical joint 

 inconspicuous, naked, dark reddish brown ; in front of the antennae a tuft of ratlier 

 short, fulvous hairs : behind the antennae a slender tuft of longer fulvous hairs, and 

 behind these a tuft of shorter whitisli hairs; stalk of antennae blackish brown, the in- 

 cisures black, beneath hoary, with whitish hairs; club blackish, above with a broad 

 stripe of fnlvous scales growing tawny toward tip, which the band does not reach; 

 beneath and at sides with the whole basal half covered with hoary scales; all of the 

 bent portion black. Tongue black, excepting at extreme tip, where it is deep mahog- 

 any brown. 



Thorax purplish black, obscured by long, dark greenish and greenish yellow hairs, 

 beneath whitish ; femora and coxae densely clothed with very long, dull fulvous and 

 whitish hairs, directed backward ; femora covered with blackish brown and with 

 mixed hoary and fulvous scales, the latter more conspicuous above and sometimes on 

 the outer side ; tibiae and tarsi reddish brown, the whole more or less obscured and made 

 gray by mingled brownish, whitish, and fulvous scales; the last joint of tarsi and 

 claw blackish; spines reddish; spurs reddish, black tipped, clothed with hoary scales. 



Wings above ; fore icings, basal portion in the male above and within the stigma, and 

 also the inner border below the submedian nervure, brownish fuscous, sprinkled 

 heavily with fulvous scales, except along the subcostal nervure. where they are much 

 less frequent ; outer half of costal border and outer border broadly obscured with 

 brownish fuscous, flecked inconspicuously and very sparsely with fulvous scales, and 

 tinged in certain lights with purplish; within this region are five whitish or dull yel- 

 lowish white spots, three elongated, broken, wedge-shaped ones, one above and a very 

 little outside of another, halfway between the tip of the cell and the apex of the wing, 

 included between the subcostal veinlets; two subquadrate, submarginal ones, one on 

 either side of the upper median nervule, and one large, very strongly elongated 

 luuule at the base of the middle median interspace; the male stigma (43 : 1) consists 

 of a narrow band of slaty scales, bordered above with black and tinged with purplish in 

 certain lights, starting from the submedian nervure at two-flfths the distance from 

 the base, and extending in nearly a straight line toward the last divarication of 

 the median; it has a very gentle curve, whose open side is outward, and just before 

 reaching its termination curves a little more outward and terminates close beside the 

 divarication of the median ; the velvety black scales are much more prominent in a 

 spot at the submedian nervure, and a broad, straight streak at the other termination, 

 which borders the median nervure. and impinges on the last divarication of the same. 



