176 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Eudanius (Cocceiiis) pylades Scudder ; Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., 13, 207, 1870. 



" Mr. Scudder also stated that the butterfly described by 

 Dr. Harris in his State Report as Eudanuis bathylhis, a name 

 invariably accepted by subsequent writers, was not the spe- 

 cies originally described and figured by Abbot and Smith 

 under the same specific name ; he therefore proposed to call 

 Harris's species Eudanuis pylades. '^ 



Description of {bathyllus) pylades by T. W. Harris in Ins. 

 Inj. to Veg. (Flint's Edt.), p. 312. 



"It is of a dark brown color; on the fore wings is a row of small 

 white spots across the middle, and another shorter row of onl}^ three 

 or four contiguous spots between the first and the tip ; the wings 

 beneath are light brown, shaded at the base with dark brown; the 

 hinder pair with a slightly prominent posterior angle, and two dark 

 brown transverse bands. Expands from 1^ to lyV inches. 



Habitat. — Vane. Isld. ; Ont. ; Quebec: Cala., Colo., Texas; 

 Dak. ; Maine to Fla. 



Records. — Mt. Graham, Arizona, H. K. Morrison ; Senator, 

 Arizona; Cazadero, Sonoma County, California, April 23d; 

 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 30th, July 2nd ; Grinnell, 

 Iowa ; Tiger Mill, Texas, March 28th, April 7th ; Round 

 Mountain, Texas, July 24th ; Wilmington, North Carolina, 

 April 26th ; Salt Lake City, Utah, June 6th ; Nashville, Ten- 

 nessee, July 17th; Cloudcroft, New Mexico, May 21st, 27th; 

 Potsdam, New York, June 19th ; Johnston, Rhode Island, 

 June 17th; Cumberland Mills, Rhode Island, June 10th; 

 Mississippi. 



Food pla7its. — Tritolumi pratense^ Lespedeza capitata and L. 

 hirta, Desmodiutn dillenii. 



" Caterpillar. — Last stage. Head generally pitchy black, sometimes 

 varying to dark amber, densely covered with short whitish or hoary 

 hairs which give it a fuzzy appearance, mounted on minute papillae, 

 arranged to some extent in longitudinal rows ; mouth parts and ocelli 

 black ; the first joint of antennae pale, the others dark red, the bristle 

 very long and hyaline. First thoracic segment black, below on the 

 sides reddish, in front edged with red or orange merging with the 

 black, covered, as is the rest of the body, with small, short, rather 

 stout bristles. Body behind this rather dark green with three stripes ; 

 a narrow, dark brownish green, interrupted, dorsal stripe, a similar 

 lateral stripe of a dull salmon or flesh color, and along the basal fold 



