1856 BUTTERFLIES BEYOND NEW ENGLAND. 



itself up in its cocoon three weeks previously, and ^Maynard collected a spec- 

 imen in Tallahassee, Fla., April 17. Nothing else is known of the seasons 

 of the insect, which Abbot says ft-equents the sides of swamps. In his 

 various manuscripts Breweria aquatica, one of the Convolvulaceae, is given 

 as the food plant of the caterpillar, and upon this it is figured by Boisdu- 

 val and LeConte. 



THOKYBES SCUDDEK. 



THORYBES ELECTRA. 



Eudamus electra Liutu., Can. eiit., xiii: 63-65 (1881). 



Imago. Front of liead dark brown. Locklet black, cnrving aljout half way over 

 the eyes. Antennae about half the length of the anterior wings, dark reddish brown, 

 marked inwardly with white at the joints, expanding rapidly into the club (the ter- 

 minal half of the club lost). Palpi in length about equal to the diameter of the eyes, 

 clothed with thick, bristly, dark brown hairs, some of which are white tipped; apical 

 joint short, conical, projecting a little beyond the hairs. 



Thorax above and beneath clothed with long, brown hairs, concolorous with the 

 posterior wings. Legs dark brown; the posterior pair have the femur and tibia of the 

 same length, bearing brown hairs which nearly equal them in leugtli; tibiae armed 

 with two pairs of spurs ; tarsi twice as long as the tibiae, moderately spinose. 



General color dark brown, approaching that of pylades; the fringe concolorous 

 with the terminal portion of the wings, a little paler at their tips. Size of small 

 [Thauaos] juvenalis. Primaries narrower than in [Thorybes] pylades Scudd. ? , more 

 rounded on the costa, and more oblique on the hind margin. Primaries with eleven 

 transparent white spots, upon which an ordinary lens shows regular rows of small 

 Islack scales, the spots as follows : near the end of the cell (apparently open) are two 

 spots, separated by the cellular fold and extending to the enclosing veins (subdorsal 

 and median), the upper one twice as large as the lower, and prolonged backward supe- 

 riorly in one or two teeth, the lower one subtriangular in shape ; above and in line with 

 these two, in cell 10, is a small, elongated spot, the smallest on the wing, while beneath 

 them and in range, in cell 3, extending from vein 2 to vein 3, is the largest spot on the 

 wing, enlarged superiorly and excavated inwardly. Outside of this discal band of 

 four spots, are seven others, bordered by dark brown, and arranged in an irregular 

 curve, as follows: in cells 9, 8 and 7, three costo-apical spots, oblique to the costa; 

 outside of these, in cell 6, a spot; in cell 5, still nearer the margin, another; 

 in cell t, a little farther removed from the margin, another; these last three sub- 

 triangular in shape; in cell 3, extending from vein to vein, a subquadrate spot, 

 placed farther from the mai'gin, about equidistant with the lower costo-apical 

 spot; these seven spots, commencing at the costa and omitting the fifth, show a regu- 

 lar increase iu size. Outside of these transparent spots is a series of obscure, dark 

 In'owu, intra-nervular, subterminal spots, which merge into the dark brown shade of 

 the margin. Inside of these spots, the wing shows by oblique light a purplish reflec- 

 tion approaching a grape bloom, but more vivid, witli the exception of the internal 

 margin and two brown bands of the color of the outer margin and posterior wings; 

 the bands extend from the subcostal to the internal vein; the outer and broader em- 

 braces the discal band of transparent spots in its outer margin, and the other crosses 

 the median vein at its intersection by vein 2 ; a brown shade rests also on the base of 

 the wing. The costal vein of the primaries intersects the costa nearly opposite the 

 end of the cell; vein 8 reaches the margin at the extreme apex, not below it. Secon- 

 daries rounded, not proiongeil at the anal angle as in pylades, nor excavated opposite 

 the cell as in most [species of Thauaos]. Secondaries traversed, at about their outer 



