BUTTERFLIES 



OF THE 



EASTERN UNITED STATES AND CANADA 



NOT FOUND IN NEW ENGLAND. 



You nymphs, call'd Naiads, of the windring brooks, 

 With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks, 

 Leave "your crisp channels and on this green land 

 Answer your summons. 



Shakespeare.— TAe Tempest. 



NYMPHALIDAE. 

 SUBFAMILY SATYRINAE. 



OENEIS HtJBNER. 



OENEIS MACOUNII. 



C%iono6crs niacownu Edwards, Cauad. ent, Out., 1888, 85 (1889); Trip to Nepigon, 12 

 xvii: 71-75(1885); —Fletcher, Rep. ent. soc. (1889). 



Imago. Head covered above with black brown scales and intermingled white hairs 

 and elongated scales. Palpi heavily fringed with l)lackish hairs. Antennae luteous, 

 clearer on the club than on the stalk ; the latter sparsely flecked above with blackish 

 brown scales with intermingled white ones. Thorax sparsely clothed above with pale 

 brown hairs, below with black hairs ; the femora covered with black hairs and scales, 

 excepting at the tips which, with the luteo-castaneous legs, are pretty heavily covered 

 with yellowish white scales ; all the spines luteo-castaneous ; claws slightly reddish. 



Wings above brownish, sometimes burnt orange, varying in depth of tint in both 

 males and females, some being much embrowned, others much paler; all the wings 

 margined excepting on the inner edge with a broad blackish brown band, slightly 

 broader on the fore wings than on the hind wings ; all the uerviires marked in brown. 

 Fore icings with a narrow, arcuate, blackish brown stripe depending from the costal 

 border, bordering the outer edge of the cell, extending outward slightly on the last 

 median nervule ; all generally obsolete in the male, distinct in the female ; a roundish 

 oval black spot with a white pupil in the middle of the lower subcostal and median 

 interspaces, in the former occupying the whole width of the interspace, occasionally 

 blind, especially in the median interspace; besides this, in the same row with them, 

 there are occasionally found similar ocelli, smaller and almost invariably blind in the 

 upper median and subcosto-median interspaces, especially the former; these last are 



