r.vMPiiiLTni: THI-: c.E>rus kupiiyes. 1735 



LIST OF ILLVHTRATIONS.-LlMOCUOIiES PONTIAC. 



(leittntl. I'l. 17, liK. fl. Miilc,l)olli .surfiu-c». 

 PI. 32, llg. 4. Distribution ill North Aiiiericii. .'iTiSO. Miili' iiIkIoiiiIiiiiI iipiu-iijiigcs. 



Iin'KJo. 4a : 10. Hi.scnl sli),-iiin of fore wliiB of male. 



Pl.lT.flg. 2. Feinalo, half ..f ii|>|HTsiirf,ii-^. 50:4. .Scalesof tlic ili«oal stlgiiia. 



EIPIIYES SCUDDER. 



Euphyes* SoiuUl., Syst. rev. Amor. I)iitl., W Ilpsporia purs yViictorum. 

 <1S72). I'aiiipliila pars Aiictoriim. 



Type.—IIesperia metacomet Harr. 



Happy insect what c-aii l><> 

 In happiness coinpaieil to Thee? 

 Fell Willi noiirislinient ilivine. 

 The ilewy inoriiin^''s ;_'entle winel 

 Nature wails upon tliiM- still, 

 Anil thy veidant eup iloes Mil; 

 'Tis tilleil wherever thou dost tread. 

 Nature's self thy Ganymede. 



Ajjacreon.— ( Ooicley's Translation.) 



Imago (60:7). Heail large, heavily clothed with pretty short hairs, arranged in 

 large, transverse masses; just outside the antennae, a small, scarcely spreading, ap- 

 pressed buuch of arcuate bristles, passing about oue-tlfth way around the eyes. Front 

 protuberant and tumid, wholly and especially just below the middle, but not greatly, 

 surpassing the front of the eyes ; from two and a half to three times as broad as long, 

 the front border very broadly rounded, the middle half almost straight, delicately 

 margined and in the middle slightly and roundly elevated, separated from the vertex 

 by a slightly impressed, straight or scarcely curved line connecting the middle of the an- 

 tennae. Vertex but slightly tumid, scarcely and about cf|ually raised above tlie level 

 of the eyes, transversely flat or very nearly so, longitudinally and regularly rounded, 

 separated from the occiput, which is a little sulcate in the middle longitudinally, by a 

 gently impressed, brace-shaped sulcation. Eyes large, pretty full, nearly circular, naked. 

 Antennae inserted with the middle of their posterior half in the middle of the summit, 

 separated from each other by nearly three times the diameter of their basal joints, the 

 whole antenna as long as the abdomen (in the ^ sometimes a little shorter than the 

 abdomen), composed of from thirty-live to thirty-nine joints, of which from seventeen 

 to twenty-one, usually nineteen, form the club, which is slightly more than half as long 

 as the stalk ; the crook excluded, about four times as long as liroad, rather slender oval, 

 increasing in size very gradually at the base, largest a little l)eyond the middle, taper- 

 ing more rapidly and rounded ofl' at the tip: the crook composed of from four to six 

 joints in the ? , of seven to eight in the <J , always of two or three more in the ^ than 

 in the $ , and coiTespondingly slenderer in the former; in both tapering regularly to a 

 delicate point, in the ,J about three times as long as broad, and fully as long as the 

 breadth of the club; in the $ from two to two and a half times longer than broad, 

 and scarcely as long as the breadth of the club; middle joints of the stalk three times 

 as long as broad, the third from the base of antennae scarcely four times as long as 

 broad. Palpi pretty stout, nearly one and a half times longer than the diameter of the 

 eye, heavily clothed with a large mass of partially erect scales, beyond which fully 

 half of the terminal joint, covered only with recumbent scales, projects; basal joint 

 biillate, subpyrifonu, largest at the tip, as long as broad ; middle joint large, buUate, 

 obovate, largest at distal extremity, but almost equally rounded at either end, slightly 

 arcuate, as broad as the basal joint and fully twice as long as broad ; the apical joint 

 seated on the middle of the tip of the second joint, straight, cylindrical or subconical, 

 slender, from three to five times as long as broad, and slightly shorter than the 

 breadth of the middle joint. 



* fw^vn's, the comely one. 



