1750 THE BUTTERFLIES OF ^-E^V ENGLAND. 



So it comes about that at every point that could bear a special develop- 

 ment, we have in one or another form some special prominence, in not a 

 few cases producing a curious effect and bizai-re forms. Even our own 

 butterflies are not wanting in some such oddities. The closer one examines 

 the chrysalis of our Papilio or Heraclides the more do they seem to resemble 

 a broken bit of rough bark. Calpodes has an odd hook in front. Calli- 

 dryas with its bent back, protuberant wings and pointed snout has a curious 

 air of pride. Anthocharis looks like a doubly sharpened stick. The acc- 

 of-spades form and baboon features of Feniseca are very amusing. The 

 prickly ragged edges of Pieris have a noli-me-tangere look ; and what a 

 swollen and yet pinched appearance belongs to Laertias ! Oddest of all, 

 perhaps, is the curiously formed lumpy shape of Basilarchia with the Roman 

 nose on its back and its strange commin£:lin<j of coloi's. 



But as in all else, we must gain the tropics to find the greatest oddities, 

 where we have not far to seek them among the prickly Heliconinae, the long 

 eared Ageroniae, Eueides that looks as if afflicted with a fungous growth, 

 or some species of Cynthia of quite indescribable form, its prominences, of 

 most extravagant development, in most unlooked-for places. More ap- 

 parently than in any other stage of a butterfly's life, has nature played 

 freaks with the chrysalis. 



CALPODES ETHLIUS.— The Brazilian skipper. 



Pcqiilio elhluis Cram., Pay. exoL, iv: 212, Calpodes ethlius Scadd., Syst. rev. Ainer. 



249, pi. 392, figs. A, B (1782). butt, 61 (1872). 



Hesperio, etMius God., 'EncyK\. m(5th., ix: T/t>'(/ci<Zes eJA^HiS Burm., Rev. mag. zool., 



717, 746 (1819);— King, Psyche, iii: 322-324 1876, 55-58, pi. 1, figs. 5, 6 (1875); Desc. phys. 



(1882). Rep. Argeut., v: 278-279 (1878); Ibid, Atlas, 



Goniloba ethliusWeBtw.-'H.ew., Gen.diurn. 25, 26, pi. 9, figs. 5, 6 (1879). 



Lep., ii: 513 (1852); — Luc, S.agra, Hist. nat. Hesperia cliemnis Fa.hr., ent. syst., iii: 331 



Cuba, 633-634(1857);— Gundl.,Eiitom. cub., i: (1793) ;— God., Encyel. mith., ix: 717, 746 



160-162 (1881). (1819). 



Famphila ethlius Herr.-Scliaeff., Corresp. Eudanncs olynthus Boisd.-heC, Lip. Amii: 



zool.-min. ver. Regensb., xix: 54 (1864); — sept., pi. 75, figs. 1, 2 (1833). 



Guiull.-Dewitz.Zeitschr. ges. nat., Mi : 158-159, Goniloba olynthus Westw.-Hew., Gen. 



pi. 2, figs. 3, 3 a, b (1879);— French, Butt. cast. diurn. Lep., ii: 512 (1852) ;— Morr., .Syn. Lep. 



U.S., 332-334 (1886);— H. Edw., Ent. amer., N. Amer., 113 (1862);— Dodge, Rural Carol., 



iii: 163(1887). iii: 593-594 (1872); Field and for., i: 73-74 



Epargyreus ethlius liat\.\, Gal. FahT. Lep., (1876). 



275 (1869). Figured also by Glover, 111. N. A. Lep., pi. 



Pamphila (Calpodes) ethlitis Butl., Ent. 109, fig. 13 (2 fig.) ; pi. F, fig. 25, pi. T, fig. 2, 



monthl. mag., vii: 93 (1870). ined. 



. . . Vanishlugs 

 Of glory, with Aeolian wings 

 Struck him and passed. 



E. B. Browning.— .4 Vision of Poets. 



Away you go, with eager vehemence, ready and rough. 



Akistophanes.— Wasps. 



Imago (17 : 14). Head covered above with profuse, short, mingled pale olivaceous 

 gray and dark olivaceous brown hairs, the eye encircled with pale dirty yellowish 

 scales, palest beneath, replaced by very short hairs above and briefly interrupted with 



