Genus Callicore 
Genus CALLICORE, Hiibner 
(The Leopard-spots) 
Butterfly. -—Small-sized butterflies, with the upper side of the 
wings dark in color, marked with bands of shining metallic blue 
or silvery-green, the under side of the wings generally more or 
less brilliantly colored, carmine upon the pri¬ 
maries and silvery-white upon the secondaries, 
with the apex of the primaries marked with 
black transverse bands and the body of the 
secondaries traversed by curiously arranged 
bands of deep black, these bands inclosing 
about the middle of the wing circular or pear- 
shaped spots. All of the subcostal nervules in 
this genus arise beyond the end of the cell. 
The costal and the median veins are swollen 
Fig. 103.—Neura- near the base. The cell in both the fore and 
/icorf thegenUS Cal ~ w ^ n & s * s °P en * 
Early Stages .—Very little is known of these. 
This genus numbers about thirty species, almost all of which 
are found in South America, only one being known to inhabit the 
United States, being found in the extreme southern portion of 
Florida, and there only rarely. 
(1) Callicore clymena, Hubner, Plate XXI, Fig. 5, $ ; Fig. 
6, &, under side (The Leopard-spot). 
Butterfly .—The wings on the upper side are black, the pri¬ 
maries crossed by an oblique iridescent bluish-green band, and 
the secondaries marked by a similarly colored marginal band. On 
the under side the primaries are crimson from the base to the 
outer third, which is white, margined with black, and crossed by 
an outer narrow black band and an inner broad black band. The 
secondaries on this side are white, marked about the middle by 
two large coalescing black spots, and nearer the costa a large 
pear-shaped spot, both ringed about with black lines. Beyond 
these black rings are two black bands conformed to the outline 
of the inner and outer margins of the wing, and, in addition, a 
fine black marginal line. The costa is edged with crimson. 
Expanse, 1.75 inch. 
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