1732 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



LIMOCHORES PONTIAC— The black dash. 



[Green margined skipper (Maynard).] 



Hesperia pontiac Edw., Proc. ent. soc. Philad., ii: 17, pi. 5, fig. 5, 2 figs. (1863); — 



Philad., ii: 17-18 (1863); pi. 11, fig. 5 (1864). Park., Can. ent., iii : 51-52 (1871). 



Pamphila pontiac Kirh., Syn. cat. diurn. Hedone orono Scudd., Syst. rev. Amer. 



Lep., 600 (1871) ;— Edw., Cat. Lep. Amer., 52 butt., 58 (1872). 



(1877); — French, Butt. east. U. S., 335-337 Isoteinon orono Hew., Cat. coll. diurn. 



(188G);— Mayn., Butt, N. Engl., 59, pi. 7, figs. Lep., 228 (1879). 

 91, 91a, omitted from expl. pi. (1886). Figured also by Glover, III. N. A. Lep., pi. 



Limochores pontiac Scudd., Can. ent., I, tig. 2, ined. 

 xix: 45 (1887). [Not Hesperia conspicua Scudd., 1868; nor 



Hesperia conspicua Edw., Proc. ent. soc. Atrytone conspicua Scudd., 1872.] 



Tbis said, he whisk'd his party-colour'd wings. 

 And down to earth he comes, more swift than thought. 

 Raleigh.— .4)1 Heroical Foem. 



Imago (17 : 2, 5). Head covered profusely with saffron yellow hairs and scales, 

 supplanted largely by brown hairs between and a little behind the antennae, and 

 sprinkled sparsely throughout with shorter blackish hairs ; the arching tuft of hairs 

 outside of the antennae composed above of shorter yellow hairs, below of longer 

 black hairs, the longest scarcely extending more than one-sixth way around the eye. 

 Basal half of palpi pale, scarcely yellowish white, beyond deepening first into lemon, 

 afterwards into saffron yellow, with a few intermingled black scales both above and 

 below ; terminal joint saffron below, Ijlackish atjove. Antennae orange tawny, duller 

 toward the b.ase, paler beneath than above, interrupted distinctly at the tips of the 

 joints with blackish patches, fading out on the club aud which are wanting beneath 

 posteriorly; above anteriorly they are often lengthened so as to reach the base of the 

 joints; apical half of the club posteriorly purplish black, the crook dusky castaneous, 

 often obscured with blackish toward the base, especially behind. 



Thorax covered above on the anterior half with mingled tawny and greenish yellow 

 hairs and scales, behind with grayish green, silky hairs; beneath with smoky brown 

 scales covered and concealed by pale greenish yellow hairs with a few intermingled 

 black hairs. Legs tawny buff, much paler interiorly, upon the outer side of the 

 femora dark chocolate brown, and streaks or blotches of the same upon the upper sur- 

 face of the tibiae, at the extreme base and often near the tip; the upper surface of the 

 tarsi grows a little dusky toward the tip. Spurs clay yellow, naked and reddish browo 

 at the tip; spines pale reddish luteous, deepening a little toward the tip of the tarsi; 

 claws dark castaneous ; paronychia fuliginous. 



Wings above blackish, slightly glistening brown. Fore wings either flecked with a 

 few dull tawny scales upon the basal fourth of the wing, often extending further 

 outward along the costal and inner borders, but especially along the latter; and 

 marked by a sinuous series of rather small, a little inequal, pale yellow spots slightly 

 tinged with tawny, traversing the middle of the outer two-thirds of the wing sub- 

 parallel to the outer border; the upper three are similar, the uppermost slenderest and 

 occasionally absent, long aud narrow, about as long as the breadth of the upper 

 median interspace, diverging very slightly from each other like the rays of a fan and 

 occupying the third, fourth and fifth superior subcostal interspaces, their interior ex- 

 tremities lying in a line nearly or quite at right angles to the costal border at the 

 middle of its outer two-thirds or a little beyond that ; the two interspaces below are 

 occasionally immaculate, or, much smaller, irregular, squarish spots are found below 

 the outer extremity of the upper spots, the lower the innermost; the median inter- 

 spaces have larger spots in the same line with the two smaller ones, or nearly in a line 

 from the apex of the wing to the middle of the inner border; their inner borders are 



