PAMPIIILIDI: KRYNXIS ATTALUS. 1653 



teen minutes in ai-coniplishing this task. Anutlier was five or six hours 

 in gnawing the opening and devouring the sliel]. 



Life history. Altliougli this Panipliilid is the earliest of its tribe, it is 

 nevertiu'kvs single Ijrooded : un(juestional)ly it jiasses tlie winter as a chrys- 

 alis, as it appears on tlie wing in May, iisiiaily during tlie early jiart of the 

 last week but ooeasionally even by the middle of the month ; the female 

 usually appears about four days after the male and begins to deposit her 

 eggs but a few days thereafter, tiiat is, dtu-ing the first week in June ; the 

 insect continues on the wing throughout June ; the eggs hatch in a fort- 

 night but the sulisequcnt histoiT of the caterpillar has not been traced ; it 

 should l)e easy to do so. Mr. Hambly found tlie Initterfl}' in but a single 

 locality in ]\liddleboro in open ground ; frequently resting upon violet 

 blossoms, as ^Ir. Lintner says, it is usually found about shrubbery. 



Desiderata. The history and description of the caterpillar and chrysalis 

 of this insect, the habits of the caterpillar and butterfly, the attitudes, 

 peculiarities of flight, stations and geographical distribution of the butter- 

 fly, are the principal lacunae in our knowledge. The life history must be 

 perfectly easy to trace, exceptionally so for a single brooded skipper. 



LIST OFILLUSTRATIOys.-ERYXNLS METEA. 



E<j<j. PI. 42, tig. 1. Neuratiou. 



PI. 66, fig. 30. Oiitliue. 43:1. Discal .stigma of fore wiug of male. 



Caterpillar. 48 : 7. Scales of the discal stigma. 



PI. SO, fig. 52. Front view of head in stage i. 53 ; 8. Side view of head andappendages 



Iraayo. enlarged, with details of the structure of 



PI. 10, fig. 5. Male, both surfaces. the legs. 



11. Female, upper surface. General. 



37:0. Male abdominal appendages. PI. 30, tig. 7. Distribution iu North America. 



ERYNNIS ATTALUS.— The dotted skipper. 



Pamphila attains Edw., Trans. Am. ent. 5x (isTT);- French, Butt. east. U. S., 309 



sociii: 276 (1871). (1886). 



Ocytes Seminole Scudd., Syst. rev. Am. Pamphila attains var. seminole Streck., 



butt.. 55 (1872). ^^'at. Amer. Macrolep., 169 (1878). 



Pamphila seminole Edw., Cat. Lep.Amer., 



She phick'd a wildwood Rose and fondly strove, 

 With pausing step and ever anxious care, 

 To carry honie her dainty treasure-trove. 

 A butte'rfly perch 'd on those petals fair, 

 Soon the gay creature Hutter'd off again; 

 And then her girlish fingers dropped the flower. 

 Ah! little maid, when Love asserts his power. 

 This lesson duly learnt may save thee pain; 

 Why from the forest Rose thine hand unclasp, 

 Because the fickle insect would not stay? 

 Not all the tendance of thy sweet blue eye. 

 And tiptoe heed, secured the butterfly; 

 The flower that needed but thy tender grasp 

 To hold it, Ih'iu hast lightly thrown away I 



Eliza Tdrnek. 



Imago 17: 'J. 12). Head covered above witli a mass of mingled pale and dark 



olivaceous, black and fulvous hairs, concealing to a greater or less extent the scales 



beneath, which vary from pearly gray in the female, sometimes with a greenish tint, 



to blackish brown in the m.ale; in both a cluster of white scales above the eye directly 



