FAMILY GOSSAMER-WINGED BUTTERFLIES. 113 



FAMILY GOSSAMER-WINGED BUTTERFLIES. 



Tlie subfamily of Erjcinids is represented in our district by the 

 genus Calephelis, with a single species, C. horealis, which has once 

 or twice been taken in New York. All our other members of this 

 family are Lycaenids. 



TRIBE HAIR-STREAKS. 

 23. Genus Strtmon. 



STRYMON TITUS— THE CORAL HAIR STREAK. 



(Thecla titus, Thecla mopsus.) 



Butterfly. — The hind wings are slightly lobed at the anal 

 angle in the male, rounded in the female. Upper surface of 

 wings uniform blackish brown, the fore wings of the male with a 

 stigma at the end of the cell. Under surface with a sinuous 

 series of very small, pale-edged, black spots across the middle of 

 the outer half of both wings, and, on the hind wings, a submar- 

 ginal series of larger coral-red spots, bordered within and without 

 with black. Expanse \\ inches. 



Caterpillar. — Onisciform. Head minute, black. Body 

 naked, with fine pile, dull yellowish green, with a rosy patch on 

 the back of the thoracic and a larger one on that of the hinder 

 abdominal segments. Length f inch. 



Chrysalis. — Pale glossy brown, dotted everywhere with dark 

 brown and blackish, the dots forming a faint dorsal stripe on the 

 hinder abdominal segments. Length nearly ^ inch. 



TMs lively butterfly is spread over most of our territory, 

 though rarely found as far north as Canada and never east 

 of western Maine; it is to be found about flowers in open 

 places near 'thickets. Winter is passed in the Qgg state, 

 the eggs being deep green, broadly domed, and thickly 

 covered with raised prominences ; they are laid singly upon 



