1656 TIIK BUTTERFLIES OF NEW EXGLAXL). 



ATALOPEDES SCUDDEK. 



Atalopedes* Scudd.. Syst. rev. Amer. butt., Hesperia jiars Auctonim. 

 67 (1872). Pamphila pars Auetorum. 



Tyjie.—Hesperia huron Eclw. 



Tlie fairest, the freshest of flowers bring hither, 

 With the (lew on their petals lilces^listeniiig pearls; 



Blend their hues and arran;;e them with care ere they wither. 

 Spray by spray in the hair of these ravishing girls. 



Butterflies of all colours, the gayest — the brightest, 

 Rainlww-tinted — bespangled,"— likewise hither bring; 



Let the thrall of the captives be one of the lightest; 

 Displace not the bloom of one azure-tipiied wing. 



Now, watch nie, and mark, when I hold up my finger, 

 Let their gauzy wings once more in freedom rejoice; 



" Oh vhose head ilie hultprflies love most to linger, 



" That girl sliall lie iiiieen— she's the butterflies' choice." 

 STEyn.— The Jade Chaptet. (From the Chinese.) 



Imago (59 : 6). Head very large, heavily clothed with father short hairs, mostly ar- 

 ranged in transverse masses \ outside of the antennae a small, spreading bunch of 

 slightly arcuate bristles, passing less than one-third way around tlie eye. Front pro- 

 tuberant but not very tumid, lying wholly beyond the front of the eyes, with a broadly 

 rounded, transverse ridge in the middle of the lower two-thirds, which, viewed ante- 

 riorly, is pretty regularly and considerably arcuate ; a distinct, arcuate, longitudinal 

 sulcation in the middle of each lateral half ; the whole piece scarcely three times as 

 broad as long; the front border is marginate in the middle, and curves regularly 

 around to the outer edge of the antennae; it is separateil from the vertex by a 

 straight sulcation, distinct only in the middle half, which is scarcely in advance of the 

 m^lddle of the antennae. Vertex slightly arched longitudinally, flat transversely, the 

 anterior half just reaching the level of the eyes, behind sloping ofTand separated from 

 the occiput, which is pretty deeply sulcate longitudinally In the middle, by a brace- 

 shaped, slightly impressed line. Eyes pretty large, not very full, nearly circular, 

 naked. Antennae inserted with their hinder edges in the middle of the summit; sepa- 

 rated from each other by more than tliree times the diameter of the basal joints, the 

 whole antenna slightly shorter than the abdomen, composed of thirty-seven or thirty- 

 eight joints, of which eighteen to twenty form the club, which is about two-tifths the 

 length of the stalk, the crook consisting of four minute, slenderly tapering joints, 

 together about three times as long as broad, but considerably shorter than the greatest 

 width of the club; the latter, exclusive of the crook, is stout oval, from three to four 

 times as long as broad, tapering gradually at base, broadly rounded at tip, largest at 

 from the sixth to eighth joint from its base; middle joints of the stalk three times as 

 long as broad; the third joint from base of antennae Ave times as long as broad. 

 Palpi short and very stout, very broad and flat wlien viewed from the front, fully one 

 and one-half times longer than the diameter of the eye, clothed very compactly with a 

 very heavy mass of not very long scales, which the apical joint, also clotlied heavily 

 but with recumbent scales, surpasses but slightly; basal joint l>ullate, triquetral, sub- 

 pyriform, with a tumid expansion on the inner border of the extremity, as long as 

 broad ; middle joint large, buUate, a little arcuate, obovate, slightly appressed, broadly 

 rounded at either extremity, but squared a little at the upper inner extremity, consider- 

 ably liroader than the basal joint, slightly more than twice as long as broad, scarcely 

 shorter than the vertical diameter of the eye; apical joint originating at tlie outer 

 border of the extremity of the middle joint, directed at right angles to it, straight, 

 cylindrical, slightly tapering, rounded at either extremity, aljout three times as long 

 as broad, and half as long as the greatest breadth of the middle joint. 



* aroXds, iniSoiw, the lively skipper. 



