1746 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



CALPODES HUBNER. 



Calpodes Hiibu., Yerz. bek. sclimctt., 107 Pamphila pars Auctorum. 



(1816). Thracides Burm., Rev. ma;;, zool., 1S75, 55 



Colpodes Hiibti., Ibid., Anzeiger 5 (1816). (1875). 



Hesperia pars Auctorum. [Not Thracides Hiibner.] 



Type.—Papilio ethlius Cram. 



See bow slowly the streamlet glides ; 

 Look liow the violet roguishly hides; 

 Even the butterfly rests ou the rose, 

 Aud scarcely sips the sweets as he goes. 



Caroline Gilman.— C'/tHd's Wish in June. 



Imago (60:3). Head very large, heavily clothed with large, transverse masses of 

 short hairs; just outside the aiitenuae a short, spreading, appressed tuft of slightly 

 arcuate bristles not extending more than one-fifth way around the eye. Front tumid 

 and very protuberant, the whole extending far beyond the front of the eyes, increasingly 

 so from above downward ; each lateral half transversely arcuate, and the middle of the 

 whole broadly hollowed with a slight, longitudinal, median ridge; slightly hollowed as 

 it approaches the antennae, nearly four times as broad as long, the front edge with 

 either lateral half arcuate, sloping off toward the outer edge of the antennae, where the 

 piece is quite slender and in the middle of the front causing a conspicuous excision ; 

 separated from the vertex by a scarcely impressed straight line, connecting the middle 

 of the antennae. Vertex tumid, raised above the level of the eyes almost as much as 

 the front, aud most so in the middle, transversely, very slightly and regularly arcuate. 

 Occiput highest in the middle, sloping ofl" at either side with a slight, median, longitu- 

 dinal furrow, toward which the slightly impressed line separating vertex and occiput 

 slopes a little; this line is otherwise straight on either side, a little bent in the middle. 

 Eyes large, pretty full, nearly circular, naked. Antennae inserted slightly in advance 

 of the middle of the summit in very broad, shallow depressions, and separated from 

 each other by about four times the diameter of the basal joints, the whole antenna as 

 long as the body and composed of forty-two (or forty-three?) joints, of which twenty- 

 three form the club, which is about half as long as the stalk; the crook excluded, nearly 

 four times as long as broad, rather slender, oval, largest at about the middle and taper- 

 ing gradually toward either extremity, scarcely more so toward base than toward tip; 

 crook consisting of eight joints, forming along and very slender, delicately and regularly 

 tapering appendage, fully four times as long as the breadth of its base, and nearly half 

 as long again as the breadth of the club; middle joints of the stalk about three, the third 

 from the base of antennae about four times as long as broad. Palpi exceedingly stout, 

 less than half as long again as the diameter of the eye, covered with a very heavy, com- 

 pact mass of scales, appressed in front, its outer edge bounded by a thick, slightly pro- 

 jecting wall of stiff bristles, and attenuating above so that the top appears wedge-shaped, 

 and beyond the middle of which the apical joint, also very heavily clothed, scarcely 

 projects ; basal joint buUate, subpyrif orm, much broader than long, with a large tumid 

 expansion, at the inner anterior part of the extremity, curving upward; middle joint 

 large, buUate, as broad as the basal joint, broadly oval, well rounded at every part, 

 regularly rounded at the base, obliquely docked at the tip from within outward, but with 

 broadly rounded edges, flattened interiorly, a little arcuate, less than twice as long as 

 broad; terminal joint seated a little outside the middle of the extremity, small, obo- 

 vate, bluntly and equally pointed at either end, fully twice as long as broad, and 

 scarcely more than one-third as long as the breadth of the middle joint. 



Prothoracic lobes moderately large, appressed, laminate, triangular, the inner and 

 lower sides nearly straight and equal and at right angles to each other, the other side 

 arcuate, scarcely longer than high, and equal to the shorter diameter of the eye. 

 Patagia rather larger, nearly as long as the breailth of the head, the posterior lobe long 



