HESPERIDAE: PAMPHILIDI. 1867 



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 sometimes found a minute dot in the lower part of the interspace beyond the cell in 

 line with both the upper and the lower series. The hind wings occasionally show ex- 

 ceedingly faint traces of a row of faint light spots crossing the upper half of the wing 

 just beyond the middle. Expanse of wings, 3-1-40 mm. 



The butterfly is found throughout the southern states, at least east of 

 the Mississippi, and has also been found in the extreme northern part of 

 Indiana and in eastern Pennsylvania, according to Edwards, so that it 

 probably covers all the middle states as well. 



We are entirely unacquainted with the life of the butterfly. 



PRBNES PANOQUIN. 



Hesperiapanoqtiin ScuM.jProc.'Ess.mst., Prenes panrjquin Scndd., Syst. rev. Amer. 



iii : nS-179 (1863). butt., 60 (1872). 



Fiimpkila panoquin K\Tb.,Syu.ca.t.d\arn. Hesperia ophis Edw., Trans. Amer. ent. 



Lep., 608 (1871) -—French, Butt. east. U. S., soc, iii : 216 (1871). 



331 (1886). Hesperia cockles 'L2XV., lis. 



Imago. Head covered above with mingled brown and black scales and tawny and 

 black hairs; palpi with mingled white and yellow scales and near the extremity with 

 many black scale-hairs ; the apical joint black only above, elsewhere clay-brown ; an- 

 tennae black-brown beneath with a line of clay-brown, the naked portion of the club 

 very dark castaneous. Thorax covered above with greenish brown scales, tawny and 

 brown hairs; beneath with dirty yellow hairs; the legs brown, more or less flecked with 

 dull yellow, the tarsi darker above and paler beneath. 



Wings above dark brown, somewhat variable in depth; when freshest, with a faint 

 tawny reflection. Fore wings with a few small spots, usually pale dull yellow in the 

 male, pallid in the fem.ale ; there is a mere dot at the extreme liase of the upper median 

 interspace, a roundish, occasionally triangular spot near the base of the lower median 

 interspace, midway between the previous spot and the extreme base of the interspace; 

 also on a line with these there is sometimes found, more frequently in the ? than in 

 $ , a dot in the lower portion of the interspace beyond the cell, these three .spots form- 

 ing a single straight line in which they are equidistant; in rare instances there is in the 

 female another dot in the upper portion of the same interspace beyond the cell on a 

 line with the previous and subconfluent with the other in the same interspace ; the 

 female also shows a pair of short dashes in the subcostal interspace in the middle of 

 the outer half of the wing, the upper the outer, and there is also within the cell at its 

 lower outer extremity, subjacent to the spot in the lower median interspace, a short 

 slender streak, while a similar and generally larger streak rests upon the submedian 

 ner\'ure. as far from the margin as the spot in the lower median interspace ; these latter 

 markings are often obsolete, especially in the male. The hind ^oi7igs occasionally show 

 the mark of the longitudinal streak of the under surface. 



Beneath, rather paler than above; all the nervures of the hind wings marked in 

 very pale yellow, which is also the case to a less extent upon the fore wings, in the 

 submedian ner\Tire and the nervules of the apex of the wing, which are narrowly 

 marked. Fore wings with the markings of the upper surface of the female repeated 

 beneath, generally with greater clearness and completeness. On the hind wings there 

 are two conspicuous, long, white, longitudinal dashes, one in the interspace beyond 

 the cell, running from its termination at least half way, sometimes three-quarters, to 

 the outer margin ; the other in the medio-submedian interspace from the extreme base 



