1718 THE BUTTERFLIES OF KEW EMGLAND. 



LIMOCHORBS BIMACULA.— The bright rayed skipper. 



[Two spotted skipper (Maynard).] 



Hesperia bimactda Grote-Rob., Ann. lyo. Ilesperia acanootua Sciidd.. Proc. Best, 



nat. hist. N. Y., viii : 433-434 (lfc;67). soe. nat. hist., .\i : 381-382 (18GM). 



ramphila bimacida Kirb., Syn. cat. Lep., Isotcinon acanootus Hew., Cat. coll. iliui'u. 



603 (1S71) •— Feru., Butt. Me., 103 (1884);— Lep., 229 (1879). 



French, Butt. east. U. S., 334-335(1886);— Ilesperia illinois DocVue, Can. ent.,h- : 211- 



Mayn., Butt. N. Engl., 63, pi. 8, iigs. 100, 218(1872); v: 60 (1873). 

 100 a, b (1S86). 



Limochores bimacida SeuM., Syst. rev. Am. Figured also l)y Glover, 111. N. A. Lep., pi. 



butt., 59 (1872) ;— Min., Can. ent., iv: 150 (1872). G, fig. 3, iued. 



His choicefull sense with every change doth flit; 

 No common things may please a wavering wit. 



Spenser.— iI/!{io;)o()"rtos. 



Into the sunshine 



Full of light 

 Leaping and flashing 



From morn till night. 



EUSSELL. 



Imago (10 : 20, 24). Head covered above with saifron tawny and bl.aclvish hairs, the 

 latter mostly contiDed to a narrow, obscurely limited belt, cro.ssing the head behind tlie 

 antennae ; tuft on either side of the antennae mostly composed of blacli bristles ; the 

 scales beneatli and beliind the eye are wliitish, tinged witli yellow as tliey approach tlie 

 summit. Palpi white at base, gradually becoming yellowish and at summit deepening 

 into tawny, on tlie apical half fleclied with black scales, and along tlie outer, anterior 

 edgeof the middle joint with a row of black bristles ; last joint blackish, flecked beneath 

 with tawny. Antennae dark brown above, deepening into purplish on the club, faintly 

 flecked throughout, and especially at the base of the joints, with dull luteous ; beneath 

 very pale, glistening tawny, more or less flecked with brown on the apices of the joints 

 interiorly, the middle of tlie club more or less blackish; apical fourth of the club be- 

 neath and the crook naked and, excepting the apical dusky joint, dull or.ange. 



Thorax covered above with saffron tawuy hairs, mingled, especially on sides of pa- 

 tagia, with blackish ones; beneath with pale grayish hairs, sometimes tinged with 

 yellow; femora blackish brown, overlaid ou the outside and above with silvery scales, 

 often flecked above with tawny; tibiae pale silvery yellow, heavily flecked on the in- 

 side with blackish brown ; leaf -like appendage of fore tibiae yellowish brown ; tarsi 

 yellowish brown, deepening a little toward the tip, on the inside inclined to silvery ; 

 spurs pale silvery brown, tipped minutely with luteous ; spines reddish luteous ; claws 

 the same ; pad dusky. 



Wings above rich dark brown, occasionally with a very slight, purplish tinge. Fore 

 wings with an extra-mesial series of spots, the subcostal ones yellow or pale yellowish, 

 very vague and subobsolete, especially in the $ , situated below a point a little beyond 

 the middle of the outer half of the wing; the median ones either two in number, not 

 very large, tawny yellow in the median interspaces, situated in a line connecting the 

 apex of the wing with the middle of tlie basal two-thirds of the inner border, and occa- 

 sionally accompanied by a slight marking in the same line upon the submedian inter- 

 space (?) ; or, larger, forming an equal and rather broad, tawny baud from the upper 

 median nervule to the submedian nervure, cut by dusky uervules, bounded within by 

 the discal stigma and nearly an inter-space in width (J) ; the basal half or two-thirds 

 of the wing is lightly flecked with tawny scales, but in the ^ the portion lying be- 

 tween the subcostal and submedian nervures is also wholly dull tawuy, infuscated a 

 little next the nervures. Discal stigma rather slender, composed of two equal, similar, 

 elongate ovate, very nearly continuous, blackish brown patches, extending from the 



