1678 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



POLITES SCUDDER. 



Politcs* Scudd., Syst. rev. Anier. butt., 57 Ilespcria purs Auetoruiii. 

 (1872). Paiuphila pars Auctorum. 



Type.—Hesperia peckius Kirh. 



With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, 



A thousand times hovering round; 

 But round himself, all tender like gold, 



The sun's sweet ray is hovering found. 

 With whom is the rose herself in love? 



An answer I'd fain receive. 

 Is it the singing nightingale? 



Is it the silent star of eve? 

 I know not with whom the rose is in love, 



But every one love I : 

 The rose, the nightingale, sun's sweet ray, 



The star of eve and butterfly. 



Heine ( TransL). 



Imago (59 : 6). Head pretty large, heavily clothed above with moderately long 

 hairs, mostly arranged in a transverse mass, in the middle of which the antennae lie; 

 just outside of the antennae a slightly spreading, compressed, lateral tuft of arcuate 

 bristles, passing about one-fourth way over the eye. Front very protuberant, wholly 

 and considerably advanced beyond the front of the eyes, almost regularly tumid, slightly 

 flattened in the middle third, sulcated slightly, longitudinally and a little obliquely a 

 little outside of the middle of either half, attaining neither border, but, just before 

 reaching the front border, bent strongly tow'ard the middle of the same ; posterior 

 border minutely bituberculate in the middle; the whole piece nearly two and a half 

 times broader than long, the front border straight in the middle third, obliquely 

 sloped ofl" on the lateral third to a point opposite the centre of the front and in front 

 of the outer edge of the antennae, to which it is then bent ; separated from the vertex 

 by a nearly straight, slightly impressed line connecting the middle of the antennae and 

 forming the bottom of a very broad, shallow sulcation. Vertex rather tumid, regu- 

 larly and considerably arcuate longitudinally, slightly anil mostly toward the sides 

 transversely, wholly surpassing the level of the eyes, separated from the occiput, which 

 is deeply sulcate longitudinally in the middle, by a pretty strongly bent, somewhat im- 

 pressed line. Eyes large, full, nearly circular, scarcely trnncate behind, nalied. An- 

 tennae inserted in the middle of the summit in rather distinct depressions, separated 

 from each other by nearly four times the diameter of their basal joints, the whole 

 antenna scarcely shorter than the abdomen, composed of thirty-three to thirty-flve 

 joints, of which eighteen or nineteen form the club, which is about half as long as the 

 stalk, stout, oval, a little compressed, increasing very gradually at the extreme base, 

 afterwards more rapidly and at the extremity (excluding the crook) very broadly 

 rounded ; the crook consists of from four to six joints, one more in the J than in the 

 (J, forming a tapering appendage, slenderer in the $ than in the $ , from one and one- 

 fourth to two times as long as its basal breadth and from one-third to one-half as broad 

 as the club proper; the latter is from three to four times as long as broad, largest at 

 about the middle of its apical half or from the tenth to the twelfth joint from the tip 

 of the antennae; middle joints of the stalk about three times as long as broad, the 

 third from base of the antennae scarcely longer. Talpi moderately long, about twice 

 the diameter of the eye, stout, clothed very compactly with a heavy mass of not very 

 long scales, beyond which the terminal joint, clothed with recumbent scales, projects 

 but a little distance ; basal joint buUate, subpyriform, rather longer than bro.ad, with a 

 tumid, forward projection at the inner extremity; middle joint buUate, obovate, 

 equally and broadly rounded at either extremity, but slightly arcuate, of the breadth 



* iroXiTi^s, a citizen, in allusion to one of the names formerly given to the group, Urbicolae. 



