rAMPim.iDi: i.i.MoriiouKs tau.mas. 1725 



LIMOCHORES TAUMAS.— The tawny edged skipper. 



[The tawin-ed^'eil skipper (Gosse) ; cluar-\viiii,'c(l skipper (Maynaril).] 



Papilio taumas Fabr., Mant. ins., ii:S4 Butt. east. U. S., 320-321 (ISSG);— Fern., liutt. 



(ITST). Me., 101-102 (18sl);-Mayn., Butt. N. Engl., 



Pamphila taiimas Bull.!, Cat. Fabr. Lop., &l.pl. C, ligs. 102, 102, 102 ii (1886);— Fletch., 



277, pi. 2, 114,'. 14 (IWiO). l!ep. ent. sot-. Out., xix : S7-88 (ltW9). 



Z,(iHor/('()-es fn"»i((S SciuUl.,STst. rev. Am. Ile.nperia iirnyiis Boisil.-LeC, L(5p. AiniSr. 



butt., 59 (1S72); Butt., 300. tigs. 113, 109 ^1881). sept., pi. 76, liirs. 3-5 (1S33). 



J/e.-Yierirt rt«Hmn« Fabr., Ent. syst.,iii: 327 Fampliila iiro(/os Morr., Syn. Lcp. N. A., 



(1793);— God., Encycl. meth., ix: 723, 706-767 118(1802). 



(1819). llesperla ohaton Harr., In.s. inj. Veg., 3d 



llet'peria phocion F»hr., Ent. syst. suppl., ed.. 317. fiu'. 140 (1802);— Morr., Syn. Lep. N. 



i31 (1798). Amor., Ill (1802). 



/'n»i/>Ai7'^f i)/iociO?iButl.!, Cat. Fabr. Lcp., htileinnn ahaton Hew., Cat. coll. diurn. 



277, pi. 3, fig. 9 (1869). Lep., 228 (1879). 



He.tperia themistocles God., Encyel. nietli., J'dmp/iilfi ahaton H.Edw., Stand, nat. hist, 



ix : 723, 769 (1819). ii : 474, fig. 602 (1884). 



Hesperia cernes Boisd.-LeC, Lfip. Amfir. rantpkila origenes Morr., Syn. Lep. N. A., 



sept.,pl. 76, figs. 1-2 (1833);— Edw..Morr. Syn. 117(1862). 



Lep. N. A., 351 (1802). Figured also by Glover, 111. >f. A. Lep., pi. 



Famph ila cernes VTestw.-Hew., Gen. diurn. 23, figs. G, 9 ; pi. 34, fig. 5 ; pi. F, fig. 20; pi. T, 



Lep., ii : 523 (1852) ;— D'Urb., Can. uat., v : 246 fig. 6, ined. 



(1800) ;— French, Rep. ins. 111., vii : 100 (1878) ; [Not Hesperia origines Fabr.] 



The butterfly wavers dreamily near. 



Stou^-.— lathe Garden. 



All wautou as a child, skipping and vain. 



.Shakespeare.— iore's Labour^s Lost. 



Imago (10 : 17, 21 ; 13 : 16). Head covered above with pale, yellowish green hairs, 

 minsled with bl.ack ones, lying beneath which are blackish scales; eye encircled, ex- 

 cepting in front, with a narrow band of pale yellowish scales, above more or less tinged 

 with fulvous; tuft on either side of the autenn.ae composed of black bristles, with a 

 few yellow ones next the antennae; palpi whitish or dirty white toward base, faintly 

 tinged with yellowish, which becomes a little deeper toward the apex; the apical half 

 sprinkled in front with black, hair-like scales, a little longer than the others, and along 

 the outer under edge of the middle joint is a sparse series of long black bristles ; apex 

 viewed from above more distinctly yellowish, with abundant black hair-like scales; 

 apical joint blackish, flecked In front with yellowish, especially on its basal half. 

 .Antennae black above, beneath pale silvery buff, becoming sufliised with tawny on the 

 anterior surface of the club, the apices of the joints m.arked vaguely with blackisli, 

 especially toward the front ; apical third of the club bene.ath and .all of the crook 

 naked and excepting tlie dusky apical joint deep castaneous. Tongue black, toward 

 tip tinged with castaneous. 



Thorax covered above with greenish fulvous hairs haviug a grayish tint or in the 

 female inclining to brown, mingled, especially in front, with many blackish hairs; be- 

 neath with pale greenish gray hairs, having a tinge of yellowisli particularly in front. 

 Legs grayish brown tinged with olivaceous, especially on the femora, the final joints 

 of the tarsi becoming dusky ; leaf-like appendage of the fore tibiae dull brown ; spurs 

 brownish tipped minutely with blackish; spines dull luteous; claws dusky reddish; 

 pad dusky. 



Wings above dark brown, occasionally with a slight, warm, ferruginous glow, espec- 

 ially on the liind wings, wliere it is caused by long, tawny hairs. Fore wvxjs of ? 

 with au extra-mesial series of small, yellowish fulvous spots, three longitudinal and 

 equal, ranged at right angles to the costal border at a very little beyond the middle of 

 its outer half, two larger, quadrate, the lower the larger, and placed nearer the base. 



