Genus Lemonias 
Butterfly .—The ground-color of the upper side is bright red, 
clouded with fuscous on the base of the hind wings and bor¬ 
dered with the same color. There is a small precostal white 
spot on the primaries near the apex. The wings are profusely 
marked with small black spots arranged in transverse series and 
bands. The fringes are checkered with white. On the under 
side the wings are pale reddish, mottled with buff on the secon¬ 
daries. The black spots and markings of the upper side reappear 
on the under side and stand out boldly on the lighter ground- 
color. Expanse, i.00-1.25 inch. 
Early Stages .—These are beautifully delineated in “The But¬ 
terflies of North America,” vol. ii. The egg is pale green, turban¬ 
shaped, covered with hexagonal reticulations. The caterpillar is 
rather stout and short, the first segment projecting over the head. 
The body is somewhat flattened and tapering behind, covered with 
tufts of hairs projecting outward and downward on ail sides, 
only the two rows of short tufts on the back sending their hairs 
upward. The color is mouse-gray, striped longitudinally on the 
back with yellowish-white, the tufts more or less ringed about at 
their base with circles of the same color. The chrysalis is black¬ 
ish-brown, attached at the anal end, held in place by a girdle, but 
not closely appressed to the surface on which pupation has taken 
place, and thickly studded with small-projecting hairs. The larva 
lives on the wild plum. 
Nats occurs from Colorado to Mexico east of the Rocky 
Mountains. 
(6) Lemonias palmeri, Edwards, Plate XXVIII, Fig. 11, $ 
(Palmer’s Metal-mark). 
Butterfly .—Smaller than any of the preceding species. The 
ground-color of the wings is mouse-gray, spotted with white; on 
the under side the wings are whitish-gray, laved with pale red 
at the base of the fore wings. The white spots of the upper side 
reappear on the under side. Expanse, .75-95 inch. 
Early Stages .—-These are, so far as they have been worked 
out by Edwards, quite similar in many respects to those of the 
preceding species. 
The range of the species is from Utah southward to Mexico. 
(7) Lemonias zela, Butler, Plate XXVIII, Fig. 17, <3 ; Fig. 18, 
$ (Zela). 
Butterfly .—The upper side of both sexes is delineated in the 
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