THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES AND CANADA V3 APPENDIX PLATES, SCUDDER 1889

A r THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES AND CANADA 9- WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO NEW ENGLAND BY SAMUEL HUBBARD SCUDDER IN THREE VOLUMES Vol III APPENDIX, PLATES CAMBRIDGE: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR 1889 Prixtf.d by W H Wheeler, cajibridqe, mass ^' ^TyjTHE BUTTERFLIES EASTERN UNITED STATES AND CANADA WITH SPECIAL BEFEHENCB TO NEW ENGLAND Vol III Q^^^^a.^^ PORTRAIT OF DR THADDEUS WILLIAM HARRIS Originally engraved on steel by Halpin, after family, for a photograph in the possession of the the edition of Harris's "Entomological CoiTespondence," published in 1869 The plate having been lost in the Boston by the fire of 1872, a photogravure plate has been jirepared and printed by A from an Boston Society of Natural History artist's proof of the original steel-plate W Elson & Co TABLE OF CONTENTS Vol III BUTTERFLIES OF THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES AND CANADA, NOT FOUND IN NEW ENGLAND NYMPHAIilDAE Oeneis macouaii LYCAENIDAE TABLE OF CONTENTS VI THE HYMENOPTEROUS PARASITES OF NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES Microgasterinae by C V Riley Apauteles limenitidis BRACONIDAE Microgasterinae 1898 congrcgatus 1901 edwardsii 1901 megathymi 1902 Apanteles glomeratus " " LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Vol III PORTRAIT or THADDEUS WILLIAM HARRIS Frontispiece 1-10 BuTTEEFLiES IN CoLOR Plates Butterflies in Black " 11-17 Colored Maps of Geographical Distribution " 18-32 Male Abdominal Appendages " 33-37 Neuration of the Wings " 38-42 " 43-45 " 46-51 " 52-60 Scale Patches and Folds of the Wing Membrane found in the Male Butterfly Androconia, or Scales peculiar to hie Male Sex Side Views of Butterflies, showing Appendages of the Thorax Head and (excepting the wiugs) Miscellaneous Structural Details of the Imaso Internal Anatomy of Anosia plexippus Embryology of Euvanessa antiopa Eggs in Color and in " (in color) Black (mostly in color) Nests of Caterpillars Chrysalids in Color and in Outline Miscellaneous Structural Details, mostly of the early Stages New England Isothermal and Eaunal Map op Map op the 70-73 " 74-77 81, 82 " 83-85 " 86, 87 88, 89 -^t end (in color, folded) White Mountains of New Hampshire 7S-S0 " (in color, folded) New England 67-09 " " Hymenopterous and Dipterous Parasites of " " Heads of Caterpillars at different Stages Map 63 Plates 64-66 Caterpillars at Birth (much enlarged) Physical 62 " MicROPYLES OF Eggs Mature Caterpillars 61 Plate (in color) At end At end BUTTERFLIES OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES AND CANADA NOT FOUND IN NEW ENGLAND You nymphs, call'd Naiads, of the windring brooks, With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless Leave "your crisp channels and on Answer your summons this looks, green land Shakespeare.— TAe Tempest NYMPHALIDAE SUBFAMILY SATYRINAE OENEIS HtJBNER OENEIS MACOUNII C%iono6crs niacownu Edwards, Cauad ent, xvii: 71-75(1885); —Fletcher, Rep ent soc Out., 1888, 85 (1889); Trip to Nepigon, 12 (1889) Imago Head covered above with black brown scales and intermingled white hairs and elongated scales Palpi heavily fringed with l)lackish hairs Antennae luteous, clearer on the club than on the stalk the latter sparsely flecked above with blackish brown scales with intermingled white ones Thorax sparsely clothed above with pale brown hairs, below with black hairs the femora covered with black hairs and scales, excepting at the tips which, with the luteo-castaneous legs, are pretty heavily covered with yellowish white scales all the spines luteo-castaneous claws slightly reddish Wings above brownish, sometimes burnt orange, varying in depth of tint in both males and females, some being much embrowned, others much paler; all the wings margined excepting on the inner edge with a broad blackish brown band, slightly broader on the fore wings than on the hind wings all the uerviires marked in brown Fore icings with a narrow, arcuate, blackish brown stripe depending from the costal border, bordering the outer edge of the cell, extending outward slightly on the last median nervule all generally obsolete in the male, distinct in the female a roundish oval black spot with a white pupil in the middle of the lower subcostal and median interspaces, in the former occupying the whole width of the interspace, occasionally blind, especially in the median interspace; besides this, in the same row with them, there are occasionally found similar ocelli, smaller and almost invariably blind in the upper median and subcosto-median interspaces, especially the former; these last are ; ; ; ; ; ; ; EXPLANATION OF PLATE Hymenopterous Parasites Lithography by B Meisel James H Emerton ; figs 1, Figs 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, of 88 North American 14 and 15 were and by Emerton and Marx, and fig Butterflies drawn by George Marx; figs 3, and 13 by The enlargement is indi- 16 by Henri Metzger cated by the lines at the side Ichneumon ruflventris 10 Ichneumon versabilis 11 Microgaster carinata Tragus exesorius 12 Apanteles glomeratus i Hemiteles humeralis 13 Cocoons of Apanteles atalantae Limneria 14 Chalcis flavipes Pimpla annuUpes 15 Chalets flavipes Qlypta err alien 16 Chrysalis of Polygonia Ophion hilineatus Hoplismenus morulus limenitidis cut by Microdus sanctus Hind femur from HopUsmemis morulus side iuterrogationis, in escaping as Butterflies of New England Plate 3.Meiselhlii.B»»te3 EXPLANATION OF PLATE Hymenopterous and Dipterous Parasites Lithography by B Meisel 10, 14, and 16-26 enlargement of by S W Figs 1-3, and 12 were Williston; and figs 1-9 is figs 11, liy North American Jaiues H Eiuertoii; Edward Burgess Butterflies by George Marx; figs 4-9 figs All the figures are enlarged; the ludicated bvthe lines at the side of the figure Pteromalus ptiparum $ 15 E.forista hirsuta Pteromalus puparum ? 16 Phora Pteromalus vanessae 17 Exorista theclarum $ Side view of head Encyrtus montinus 18 Mascicera achippivora Side view of head Copidosoma sp $ "Wing Wing Wing 19 Exorista theclarum: Tctrastichus theclae 20 Exorista scudderi Dcrostenus antiopae 21 Acrorjlossa hesperidarum tio-ni Trichrigramma intermedium drawu 13 and 15 by of 89 Tdenomus graptae 10 Exorista futiUs ? 11 Exorista hlanda $ Side view of head Side view of head 12 Phorocera edioardsii ? 13 Exorista hirsuta ? 14 Exorista hirsuta $ Side view of head Side view of head $ Side view of head ? Side view of head $ Side view of head 22 Mascicera 23 Mascicera frenchii $ 24 Mascicera rileyi rileyi $ Tarsus Tarsus Side view of head 25 Phorocera edvmrdsii $ 26 Acroglossa hesperidarum $ head Side view of Butterflies of New England Plate 89 B.M«is«I.litlL.Bait«9 Map This illustrate map has been prepared Excursus Walking Guide It is I to the Great Range, White Mountains, N H of the to show the extent of Mt Washington Range paths and forest limits the alpine districts of the based-upou that prepared and published by Mr Some W White mountains, H Picliering in liis to little His lines have been followed for the contours, streams, slight additions have been made, and by the use of colors the extent of the forest region and the division of the alpine region into two districts have been clearly shown The difference in the height of the forest line in different parts of tlie range, as modified by the exposure or the proximity of deep ravines (first made apparent by the measurements of the late Professor Guyot) are here well brought out, but probably require some modification English feet The heights of nearly thirty years ago tlie Doubtless more correct determinations are found viz.—Washington, 6293'; Clay, Franklin, 4923'; Pleasant, 4781' The path leading The heights of the contour lines are in from Guyot's measurements of several mountain summits are taken to the loSl'; Jefferson, 5736'; (See Appalachia, iv Adams, in Prof E C Picliering's figures, 5819'; Madison, 5381'; Monroe 5396 ; :321.) summit of Mt Madison from the west branch of the Peabody River should have been marked Osgood Path and not Watson Path X THE ALPINE DISTRICTS OF THE GREAT RA.NGE,WHITE MTS N.H CH Upper Alpine or Bocky District €3 Lowec^me ^°°*f^ or CH Forest Rocion Scrub Bistnrf: ;]Mo^eter^3 ' ' ' I ' Stilus ' ?C* ZD Clearings Cascades ... by the absence of the lower ocellus of the extra-mesial band of the fore wing and the Invariable presence of an ocellus on the upper surface of the hind wings Very common Mexico, at in the southern... pits of the surface of the head; the dorsal stripe divides and sends a branch down on each side of the frontal triangle the other two stripes on each side of the head are extensions of the subdorsal... ochraceous brown in the outer half of the wing, and with darker ochraceous brown in the middle of the band at the base the bars are larger and about equally divided in the band the darker ones are