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THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



even in such elevated places as Amherst (Parker), and Mount Tom (Dim- 

 mock) , and south of lat. 43° is found everywhere, always rather common 

 and sometimes, as in Nantucket, abundant. 



Life history. The buttei-fly is single brooded, but the stage in which 

 it hibernates is uncertain. It generally appears on the wing during the 

 very last da3^s of June, occasionally as early as the 22d, becomes abun- 

 dant in early July, is generally rubbed — at least this is true of the male — 

 by the middle of July, and continues in scanty numbers until tlie middle, 

 occasionally as late as the third week of August. In the northern part of 

 its New England range, hovv'ever, fresh specimens of both sexes are often 

 taken at the middle of July ; and Lyman says it is found at Portland, ]Me., 

 at the end of August. 



The butterfly frequents fields and other open ground, where its fondness 

 for flowers renders it an easy prey to the collector. It is particularly 

 attracted by the flowers of mint, fireweed and Indian hemp. 



Desiderata. Our entire ignorance of the early stages of this trim little 

 butterfly renders the above account of its history exceedingly meagre. 

 Unfortunately it can not even be relieved by an account of the flight and 

 attitudes of the butterfly nor by any sketch of its parasites. If the Cali- 

 fornian vestris is the same as this, we are very ignorant of its distribution, 

 or how and where the intervening space between it and the eastern type is 



bridged over. 



LIfiT OF ILLUtSTRATlONS.—EUPHTES METAOOMET. 



General. 

 PI. 31, fig. 7. Distribution in North America. 



E'jg- 



PI. 66, fig. 32. Outline. 



Imago. 

 PI. 10, fig. 29. Female, both surfaces. 

 30. Male, upper surface. 



PI. 37, fig. 23. Male abdominal appendages. 

 42 : 17. Neuration. 

 43 : 13. Discal stigma of fore wing of male. 



51 : 4. Scales of the discal stigma. 

 60: 1. Side view of head and appendages 

 enlarged, with details of the structure of 

 the legs. 



EUPHYES VERNA.— The little glass-wing. 



[Spotted brown skipper (Mayuard).] 



Famphila verna Edw., Proc. acad. n.at. sc, 

 Philad., 1862, 57 (1862) ;— French, Butt. east. 

 U. S., 324-325 (1886) ;—Mayn., Butt. N. Engl., 

 64-65, pi. 8, figs. 104,104 a (1886). 



Ilesperia verna "Weid., Proc. entom. soc. 

 Philad., ii: 540, 541(1864). 



Euphyes verna Scudd., Syst. rev. Am. butt., 

 59 (1872). 



It grieves the bee and butterfly 

 Because they strive in vain, 



To hoard the scent of Uowers, 

 Whose honeyed cups they drain. 



Stoddaud.— C/ii»cse Songs. 



Imago ( 10 : 27, 33). Head covered above with hairs of varying shades of greenish 

 yellow, largely mixed with blacli ones; below with whitish scales, tinged faintly with 

 yellow and with a few slender, blackish hairs ; the scales extend behind the eye, be- 

 coming yellowish above and over the eye greenish yellow; tuft on either side of the 



