380 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



P. turnus Linn. Everywhere in the State, V to IX, and sometimes quite 

 commonly. The dimorphic female, glaucus is rare. The larva feeds on 

 all the usual orchard fruits save peach, also wild cherry, tulip, ash and 

 others ; but is never abundant enough to be injurious. 



P. thoas Linn. = cresphontes Cram. Single examples occur throughout 

 the State: Caldwell (Cr), Ft. Lee (Bt), Newark (Soc), Staten Island, 

 VIII and IX (Ds), New Brunswick (Sm), Trenton (Aaron). The larva 

 feeds on orange, prickley ash and hop-tree (Ptella). 



Family HESPERIDiE. 



These are the "skippers," so called because of their low, jerky flight. They 

 are usually small, stout butterflies, with tawny, black or smoky wings spotted 

 or marked with white or black, the wings comparatively small and thick. The 

 head is broad and the antennae are widely separated, the club gradual and 

 pointed, usually a little recurved at tip. The legs are all complete. At rest 

 these butterflies have the hind wings horizontal and the forewings vertical, so 

 that at all times the insects are easily recognizable. 



The larvse have large heads, separated by a distinct neck from the rest of the 

 body, and feed mostly on grasses. The pupse are rounded, not angular, usually 

 partly incased in a slight cocoon, the group thus resembling the moths. 



None of them are economically important. 



ANCYLOXYPHA Feld. 



A. numitor Fabr. Common throughout the State, V to IX, and is three 

 brooded : the larva on grasses. 



PAMPHILA Fabr. 



P. massasoit Scudd. Camden (Carney), Gloucester, VII and VIII (Aaron), 

 swamps near Westville, VII, 3 - 10 (Sk, Lt), Jamesburg, VII, 4 (Bt, Sk, 

 Sm), Staten Island (Ds). The larva of this and of most other species of 

 this genus feeds on grasses. 



var. suffusa Laurent. Westville, VII, 4-10 (Lt). 



P. zabulon Bd. Lee. Quite generally distributed ; but seems to be local and 

 not common. Camden, Merchantville (Carney), Staten Island, VII to 

 X (Ds), Hemlock falls, V, L9, VI, 5 (Sb), Newark, VI (Wdt), Cape 

 May, V, 30 (Sk). 



P. hobomok Harr. and var. pocahontas Scudd. Quite generally dis- 

 tributed, the form hobomok usually the most common. Mr. Davis takes 

 it in May and June on Staten Island. According to Mr. Beutenmuller, 

 pocahontas is sometimes common in the mountainous portions of the 

 State in May and June. 



