Genus Euphyes 
ward and backward from the middle, the body profusely covered 
with minute tapering hairs arising from small, wart-like protu¬ 
berances. 
Chrysalis. —Thus far undescribed. 
(1) Euphyes verna, Edwards, Plate XLVI, Fig. 32, $ (The 
Little Glass-wing). 
Butterfly. —The upper side of the male is correctly delineated 
in the plate. On the under side the wings are paler, inclining 
to purplish-red. The spots of the upper side are repeated, but in 
addition about the middle of the hind wings there 
is a semicircle of pale spots. Expanse, <3 , 1.1 5 inch; 
9 , 1..35 inch. 
Early Stages. —We do not know much of these; 
what little we do know may be found recorded in 
the pages of “The Butterflies of New England.” 
The caterpillar feeds on grasses. 
It ranges from southern New England to Vir- 
Fig. 175-— ginia, westward to Kansas, and northward to the 
ge nU s Euphyes , province of Alberta. It is quite common in Ohio, 
enlarged Indiana, and Illinois. 
(2) Euphyes metacomet, Harris, Plate XLVI, Fig. 31, <3 
(The Dun Skipper). 
Butterfly. —The male is dark in color on the upper side, and 
on the under side the wings are a shade lighter, the lower side 
of the abdomen being generally paler. The female has some 
faint traces of translucent apical spots near the costa, and two 
minute translucent spots on either side of the second median 
nervule near its origin. On the under side the .spots of the 
upper side reappear. There is a faint trace of a semicircle of 
pale spots about the middle of the hind wing. The female 
specimens vary on the under side from pale brown to a dis¬ 
tinctly purplish-brown. Expanse, <3 , 1.15 inch; $, 1.30 inch. 
Early stages. —Next to nothing is known of these. 
It ranges from Quebec to the Carolinas, and westward to 
Texas, New Mexico, and the British possessions east of the 
Rocky Mountains, as far north as the latitude of the northern 
shores of Lake Superior. 
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