1720 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



(Strecker), northern Illinois CWorthington, Dodge, Morrison), Iowa and 

 Arkansas (Strecker), Nebraska (Edwards) and New Mexico (Snow). 



The only New E:ngland localities yet rejKjrted are in Maine, Orono (Fer- 

 nald), in New Hampshire, Milford, rare (Whitney), in Massachusetts, Mt. 

 Tom and Springfield (Dimmock, Morrison), about Boston at Maiden and 

 Wollaston (Sprague), Lexington (Sanborn), Quincy (Merrill) and Wal- 

 pole (Guild) and in Rhode Island (Scudder). 



Life history. It appears to be but single brooded ; probably the chry- 

 fialis hibernates. The earliest butterflies are seen about the middle of 

 June, but some probably continue to emerge from the chrysalis for at least 

 three weeks and they fly through July and into August. 



The butterflies may be found in wet meadows but seem to be every- 

 where rare. 



Desiderata. Not only are we entirely ignorant of the early stages of 

 this butterfly, but the dates of its apparition are so meagrely reported that 

 the above account is very insuflScient. The flight and postures of the but- 

 terfly should be described and search made for parasites of the insect. 



LIST OF ILLUSTBATIONH.-LIMOCHOBES BIMACULA. 



Imago. PI. 51, fig. 2. Scales of the discal stigma of 

 PI. 10, fig. 20. Female, upper surface. fore wing of male. 



24. Male, both surfaces. General. 



37 : 29. Male abdominal appendages. PI. 32, fig. 1. Distribution in North America. 



LIMOCHORES MAN ATA AQUA.— The cross line skipper. 



[Yellow-spotted brown skipper (Mayuard).] 



Hesperia manataaqua Scudd., Proc. Ess. Isoteinon manataaqua Hew., Cat. coll. 



inst., iii : 175-176 (1S63). diurn. Lep., 229 (1879). 



Pamphila manataaqua Kirb. Syn. catal. Hesperia cernes Harr., Ins. inj. Veg., 3d 



Lep., 599 (1871) ;— French, Uep. ins. 111., ix: ed., 316(1862). 



160-161 (1878); Butt. east. U. S., 323-324 r«<i(Zes«es«)-tsBoisd.,ButI.,Entom.monthI, 



(1886) ;— Fern., Butt. Me., 102 (1884) ;— Mayn., mag., vii: 93 (1870).* 

 Butt.N. Eiigl.,63,pl.8,figs. 101,101 a, b (1886). 



Limochores manataaqua Sc,ViH.,Sy St. rew, [Not Hesperia cernes Boisd.-LeC. ; nor 



Am. butt., 59 (1872). Hesperia vestris Bolsd.] 



Bright, airy, light and beauteous thing. Thy tiny form, fit emljlem seems 



How transient here's thy stay; — Of thv life's little day; 



Then spread thy noiseless silken wing, Thy colours bright, my fancy deems 



And flutter whilst thou may. Thy moments bright as they. 



Now glancing oft from flower to flower, Thou ;irt Ijut as a meteor beam. 



Now basking in the sun, Lighting' ymi arch on high; 



Stealing fresh sweets from bush and flower, A sunlioannlaining on a stream. 

 Thus is thy labour done. A rainbow in the sky, — 



Which live all gloriously awhile, 

 Then fade in air to die. 



Oscar.— To a Butterfly. 



Imago (10 : 23, 28). Head covered above with dingy greenish tawny hairs, brighter 

 and less greenish away from the middle, in the 9 with a transverse belt of reddish 

 brown between and a little behind the antennae; the tuft on either side of the antennae 



•The British Museum specimens exam- to say certainly that they do not belong to 

 ined by me In 1872 were not perfect enough L. bimacula. 



