PAMrilll.lIU; TI I YMELICUS MYSTIC. 1705 



GROUP II (mystic). 



.Vpical liook of aiitoniial club only li.ilf as loiii,' as the breadth of the club; first 

 subcostal nervule of fore wiu'is arising opposite a point on the median nervure much 

 nearer the base of the first than of the second nervule; upper organ of male abdom- 

 inal appendages extending beyond the clasps by nearly the whole length of the 

 lateral arms. 



Species : mystic. 



THYMELICUS MYSTIC— The long dash. 



[Orange skipper (Mayuard).] 



Hesperia mystic Edw., Scudd., Proc. Ess. N. Engl., 62-63, pi. 8, figs. 99, 99 a, b (1886). 



inst., iii : 172-173 (1S63) ; Proc. entoni. soc. ifmoc/tores mysii'c Scudd., Svst. rev. Am. 



Philiid., ii : 1.V16, pi. 1. figs. 3-4 (1863) ;— Pack., butt., .59 (1872). 



Guide ins., 270-271(1869);— S.iund., Can. ent., Pijrrhosidia mystic Scudd., Mem. Best. 



1:65-66 (1869). eoc. nat. hist., ii : 346, note (1874). 



Pamphila mystic Kirb., Syn. catal. Lep., Isoteinon mystic Hew., Cat. coll. diurn. 



603 (1871) ;— Middl., Rep. ins. 111., x : 97 (1881); Lep., 228 (1879).' 



—Fern., Butt. Me., 100-101 (1884) ;— French, Figured also by Glover, 111. X. A. Lep., pi. 



Butt. east.U. S., 318-320 (1886) ;— Mayn., Butt. H, figs. 2,3, ined. 



0, the heaps of sweet roses, sweet cinnamon roses, 

 In great crimson thickets that cover the wall ! 



And flocks of bright butterflies giddy to see them, 

 And a sunny blue sky over all. 



Abba Woolsost.— ^4 Summer''s Day. 



Imago (10:25,26). Head covered above with olivaceous and blackish hairs, the 

 former in excess; the eye encircled, excepting iu front, with a narrow belt of yel- 

 low scales, deeper in color above than below; the tuft of bristles on either side of the 

 antennae black, with a few short, deep yellow ones at the base behind. Palpi yellow, 

 increasing in depth of tint apically, the tip of the second joint, viewed from above, like 

 the upper surface of the head ; a sparse row of long black hairs along the outer anterior 

 edge of the middle joint; terminal joint black, flecked with yellowish below; antennae 

 very pale, glistening, straw yellow below, deepening to tawny on the sides and above, 

 and on the apical half of the joints marked with black above; the club above prin- 

 cip.ally black, the inner side toward the tip and tlie whole of the crook naked and, 

 excepting the dusky apical joint, dark castaneous. Tongue piceous, at tip testaceo- 

 piceous. 



Thorax covered above with olivaceous and olivaceo-tawuy hairs, the former more 

 abundant in front and mingled with some blackish hairs ; below with pale greenish- 

 yellow hairs, in front more yellowish than elsewhere ; legs tawny bufl', the inside of the 

 femora more yellowish, the under surface of the same blackish, and the upper surface 

 of the tarsi and sometimes the tip of the tibiae with a narrow, blackisli line; leaf-like 

 appendage of fore tibiae testaceous ; spurs pale bull', minutely fuscous tipped ; spines 

 dark testaceous, with dusky insertions ; claws reddish fuscous ; pad dusky. 



"Wings above tawny, brighter in the ^ than in the $ . Fore wings bordered very 

 broadly with dark lustrous brown, with obscure, very dark green reflections, most 

 broadly bordered in the lower half of the wing, where the interior margin of the bor- 

 dering crosses the middle of the outer two-thirds of the submedian nervure ; in the 

 ujiper half it is hollowed, approaching a little nearer the outer border in the interspace 

 beyond the cell ; the basal portions of the same interspace, and especially its upper 

 half, are occupied by a longitudinal, dark brown patch, which generally reaches or just 

 fails of reaching the outer bordering — at least in the upper half, the lower border of 

 the patch scarcely reaching the upper median nervule, at least in the outer lialf. In 

 the ? this patch is accompanied above its basal half by a secondary patch, a little 



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