Genus Pamphila 
This little insect ranges from North Carolina southward to 
Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. 
Genus PAMPHILA, Fabricius 
Butterfly.-— The antennae are very short, less than half the 
length of the costa. The club is stout, elongate, and blunt at its 
extremity; the palpi are porrect, den.sely clothed with scales, 
concealing the third joint, which is minute, slender, 
and bluntly conical. The body is long, slender, and 
somewhat produced beyond the hind margin of the 
secondaries. The neuration of the wings is repre¬ 
sented in the cut. 
Egg. —Hemispherical, vertically ribbed, the inter¬ 
spaces uniformly marked with little pitted depres¬ 
sions. 
Caterpillar .—The body is cylindrical, slender, 
tapering forward and backward; the neck less stran¬ 
gulated than in many of the genera. The body is somewhat hairy; 
the spiracles on the sides open from minute subconical elevations. 
Chrysalis .—Not materially differing in outline and structure 
from the chrysalids of other genera which have already been de¬ 
scribed. 
Only a single species belonging to the genus is found in 
Fig. 162.— 
Neuration of 
the genus Pam - 
phila. 
North America. 
(1) Pamphila mandan, Edwards, Plate XLXII, Fig. I, 6 
(The Arctic Skipper). 
Butterfly .—No description of this interesting little insect is 
necessary, as the figure in the plate will enable the student at 
once to distinguish it. It is wholly unlike any other species. 
Expanse, 1.10 inch. 
Early Stages .—These have been described by Dr. Scudderand 
Mr. Fletcher. The caterpillar feeds on grasses. 
The insect ranges from southern Labrador as far south as the 
White Mountains and the Adirondacks, thence westward, follow¬ 
ing a line north of the Great Lakes to Vancouver’s Island and 
Alaska. It ranges southward along the summits of the Western 
Cordilleras as far as northern California. 
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