1824 BUTTERFLIES BEYOND NEW ENGLAND. 



EUPSYCHE SCUDDER. 



Eupsyche Scudd., Bull. Buflf. soc. nat. sc, iii:112 (1876). Thecla pars Auctorum. 



Imago. Head moderately large, compactly sessile. Front as broad as the face view 

 of the eyes. Eyes rather fuller than usual, with a very sparse pilosity, so brief as to 

 be scarcely perceptible. Antennae unusually short, being less than half the length of 

 the fore wings and not very much longer than the abdomen, separated at base by hardly 

 more than half the front, composed of not far from forty joints; the club very long 

 and slender, and arising very gradually, so as to be difficult to delimit, but it is com- 

 posed of not far from eighteen joints and is scarcely more than twice as stout as the 

 stalk, bluntly rounded at the tip, which does not otherwise taper, and occupies nearly 

 a third of the whole antenna; in the middle of the club the joints are less than twice 

 as broad as long, and in the stalk the longest are not more than four times as long as 

 broad. Palpi slender and rather long, the last joint very slender and elongated, as long 

 as the middle joint, and if appressed to the head would surpass the base of the an- 

 tennae. 



Thorax unusually plump, the fore wings shaped much as in Thecla, the neuration of 

 the male not affected by the discal stigma. Cell half as long as the wing, much nar- 

 rowed apically ; course of the upper cross vein closing the cell oblique, arising from the 

 first inferior subcostal nervure, as far beyond the origin of the latter, as that beyond 

 the base of the second superior nervule, the lower cross vein closing the cell obsolete; 

 first subcostal and median nervules arising a little beyond the middle of the cell. Hind 

 wings with the whole lower half produced, the inner being much longer than the costal 

 margin, the lower median nervules produced to filiform tails of greatly unequal length, 

 the inner margin excised apically, the anal angle faintly lobed. Subcostal and median 

 nervures first branching at equal distances from the base. 



All the legs short but pretty stout, the fore tibiae as long as the fore tarsi, and only 

 a little shorter than the hind tibiae, and about a third shorter than the hind tarsi, 

 which are a sixth longer than the hind tibiae; fore tarsal joints of the male obscure, 

 the last bluntly rounded at tip and furnished with a pair of spines differing in no way 

 from the others, except in being directed at right angles downward. Hind tarsal joints 

 clothed beneath inconspicuously with short and fine, recumbent spines ; first joint 

 equalling all the others. Claws exceedingly small and delicate, bent in the middle; 

 paronychia slender, as long as the claw. 



The early stages are known only by the illustrations given in Boisduval and LeConte's 

 Iconography, which show nothing generically distinctive. 



The o-enus is fairly well represented in the tropics of America, three or 

 four species being known in North America, one of them inhabiting our 

 southern states ; some of the Central American forms extend to the Ama- 

 zons, Guiana and Venezuela, and probably there are others in northern 

 South America. Their transformations are known only through the United 

 States species, mentioned below. 



EUPSYCHE M- ALBUM. 



T%ecla m-album Boisd.-LeC, L4p. Amir. Eupsyche m-album Scudd., Bull. Buff. soc. 



sept., 86-87, pi. 26, figs. 1-5 (1833) ;— French, nat. 8C.,iii: 112 (1876). * 



Butt.east.U. S., 256-267 (1886);— Godm.-Salv., Thecla psyche Boisd.-LeC, L6p. Am6r. 



Biol, centr. amer. , Lep., ii : 40 (1887). sept., 88-89, pi. 27, figs. 1-5 (1833). 



Imago. Head with the face black, edged externally with white, tufted above with 

 black scales ; the eye narrowly encircled behind with white. Antennae black, heavily 

 annulated with white, excepting on the club which is black, the apex orange. Thorax 



