1768 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



LEREMA ACCIUS.— The clouded skipper. 



[Clouded skipper (Scudder) ; white spotted brown slsipper (Maynard).] 



Fapilio accitis Sm.-Abb., Lep. ius. Geo., iii:178 (18ii31;Ib., [manoco], Proc. Bost. soc. 



i : 4546, tab. 23 (1797). nat. hist., xi : 382 (1868). 



I'amphila accius Westw.-Hew., Gen. Ilesperia nortoiiii Edw., Trans. Amer. 



iliiirn. Lep., ii : 523 (1852) ;— Chapm., Can. ent., entom. soc., i: 287-288 (1867). 



xi: 191 (1879);— French, Butt. east. U. S., Hesperia punctella Grote-Rob., Trans. 



327-32.8 (1886) ;— Mayn., Butt. N. Engl., 65, Amer. ent. soc, i: 1-2 (1867). 



pi. 8, figs. 105, 105 a (1886). Papilio curtins Abb., Draw. ins. Geo. Br. 



Lereina accius .Scudd., Syst. rev. Am. Mus., vi : 75, figs. 102-104 (ca. 1800). 



butt., 61 (1872) ; Butt., fig. 65 (1881). Jiesj^ria clutmis Boisd., MS. 



Hesperia accius Hew., Cat. eoll. diurn. Figured also by Glover, 111. N. A. Lei^., pi. 



Lep., 219 (1879). B, tig. 19; pi. E, figs. 8, 10, ined. 



Hesperia monoco Scudd., Proc. Ess. iust., [Not Pap. curtius Fabr.] 



And then againe he turneth to his play, 

 To spoyle the pleasures of that Paradise. 



Spenser. — Muiopotmos. 



Imago (17:3, 7). Head covered above with mingled dull yellowish and grayish 

 hairs, and in the central patches with dark brown .scales ; beneath with very pale, dirty 

 yellow scales, which extend around the eye behind and above, becoming brighter yellow 

 above; tuft on either side of the antennae of mingled blackish and dull yellow 

 bristles. Palpi very pale dirty yellow at base, becoming scarcely more yellow and a little 

 more brownish toward the tip, flecked r.ather profusely, especially toward tip, with 

 black scales; apical joint dull brownish, flecked in front with yellowish. Antennae 

 dark brown on the stem above, faintly annulated with pale at the base of the joints ; 

 upper surface of club blackish fuliginous with a purplish tinge, the basal third or 

 fourth pale greenish nacreous ; beneath nacreous, the apical half of the joints more or 

 less brown anteriorly, the apical half of the club blackish; crook naked, brownish yel- 

 low, paling toward the tip. Tongue dark castaueous, a little infuscated later.ally. 



Thorax covered above with yellowish brown hairs, tinged slightly with olivaceous, 

 concealing large, dark brown scales; prothorax with mingled yellow and dark brown 

 scales, the former inclining to tawny; beneath with grayish yellow hairs, becoming 

 yellowish anteriorly. Legs redtlish brown, the upper and outer surface of the femora 

 silvery gray, the sides of the rest of the leg inclining to the same, the tibiae growing 

 darker above toward the tip; leaf -like appendage of fore tibiae glistening, pale 

 brownish yellow ; spurs brownish yellow ; spines reddish luteous ; claws reddish ; pad 

 dusky reddish. 



Wings above very dark, uniform, warm, glossy brown. Fore loinf/s with a scarcely 

 arcuate series of minute, round or squarish, equal, white or silvery white, subcostal 

 spots, arranged in a transverse series, the convexity inward, at right angles to the cos- 

 tal margin, scarcely beyond the middle of the outer half; in the middle of the basal 

 two-fifths or half of the upper median interspace a square spot similar in size and color, 

 and in the lower median interspace (in the $ only) a much larger, silvery white spot, 

 rounded interiorly, straight or slightly concave exteriorly, just below the base of the 

 middle median nervule ; at the upper edge of the cell, opposite the base of the first 

 subcostal nervule a minute, roundish white spot, also in the ? only; the other spots 

 are larger in the ? than in the $ . Discal stigma (43 : 20) slender, gently arcuate, 

 nearly equal, tapering slightly at either end, l)ut especially at the inner end, about 

 seven times as long as broad, extending from the last divarication of the median to a 

 little within the middle of the submedian nervure ; it is composed of blackish slate- 

 brown hairs, directed from above downward and compactly appressed; it is sometimes 

 divided into two equal patches by the lowest median nervule. The nervules are usually 



