PAMPHILIDI: TOLITES PECKIUS. 1683 



practk-ally invisible to them. Is there not here a beauty of form and of 

 structure which is an end in itself, subserving no material end, of no 

 possible profit to the possessor ? 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



Dc.sclianips, B. Recherclies microscopiques sur I'organisatiou les ailes des MpidopWrcs. 8*. 

 Paris, IHXi. 



Watson, J. On the plunuiles or battledore scales of Lycaenidae. 8°. London, 1S66. 



Watson, J. Further remarks on the plumules or battledore scales of some of the Lepidoptera, 

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Wonfor, T. W. On certain butterfly scales characteristic of sex (two papers). 8°. London. 

 1S67, 18G8. 



Watson, -J. On the battledore scales of butterflies. 8°. London, ]S69. 



Mclntirc, S.J. Notes on the minute structure of the scales of certain insects. 8°. London, 

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Anthony, J. The markings on the battledore scales of some of the Lepidoptera. 8°. Loudon, 

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Schneider, R. Die schuppeu an den verschledenen fliigel- und kdrpertheilen der Lepidop- 

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Tetens, H. Ueber das vorkommen mikroscopischer formenuuterschlede der fliigelschuppen 

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Dalla Torre, K. W. von. Die duftapparate der schmetterlinge. 8°. Stuttgart, 1885. 



Hasse, E. Duftapparate indo-australischer schmetterlinge. 8°. Dresden, 1886. 



See also the papers cited on page 1040, and numerous others by Fritz Midler on the odori- 

 ferous organs of butterflies. 



POLITES PECKIXJS.— The yellow spot. 



[Yellow spot (Gosse); yellow spotted skipper (Gosse); Peck's skipper (Harris).] 



Hesperia peckius Khh., Fauxi. bor.-amer., Amer., 120 (1862). 



iv:300, pi. 4, figs. 2, 3 (1837) ;— Hiirr., Ins. iuj. Hesperia wamsutta Harr., Ins. inj. veg., 



veg., 3d cd., 315-316, fig. 139 (18C2). 3d ed., 318, tig. 141 (1862) ;— Morr. Syn. Lep., 



Pamphila peckius Kirb., Syn. cat. Lep., N. Amer., 111-112 (1862) ;—Sauud., Can. ent., 



600 (1871);— French, Rep. ins. HI., vii: 160 i: 66-67 (1869) ;— Pack., Guide Ins., 270, fig. 



(1878) ; Butt. east. U. S., 317-318, fig. 84 (1886) ; 198 (1869). 



—Fern., Butt. Me., 99-100 (1884) ;— Mayn., Pamphila enys Boisd., Butl., Entom. 



Butt. X. Engl., 61, pi. 8, figs. 96, 96a (1886). monthl. mag., vii: 93 (1870). 



Pontes peckUis Scudd., Syst.rev. Am. butt., 



57 (1872). Figured also by Glover, HI. N. A. Lep., pi. 



Pamphila peckii Morr., Syu. Lep. N. 33, tig. 9; pi. G, fig. 14; pi. K, fig. 12, ined. 



Der Friihling kommt in's Land herein, 

 Er fliegt auf Schwalbenschwiugen, 

 Und vor ihm her und hinterdreln 

 Die Voge! alle singen, 

 Und schweigend wohl, doch frohgenug, 

 Umflattert ibn mit leisem Flug 



Und Zug auf Zug 

 Ein Heer von Schmetterlingen. 



yv KCKVM^ xGTe,i,.—Fruhlingslied. 

 I follow'd fast, but faster he did fly. 



SuAKF.sv^K&TS,.— Midsummer-Night's Dream. 



Imago (10 : IS, 22 ; 13 : 12, 14). Head covered above with mingled greenish tawny 

 and blackish hairs, the former becoming yellowish tovvai-d the sides ; the tufts on 

 either side of the base of the antennae are composed of mingled pale tawny and 

 black bristles, the latter predominating behind, the former In front; beneath the eye 

 the scales are very pale buflT, growing deeper in color behind the eye and tinged with 

 orange above. Palpi very pale, r.ather dlugy, buff, with a slight greenish hue, tinged 

 slightly with tawny toward the tip, the apical half flecked with Infrequent black hairs 



