NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 67 



tion of "wings above, and in having niueli clearer yellow below Habitat, 

 Utah and Arizona. 



GENUS XVII. 

 EUPTOIETA. UPLAND BUTTERFLIES. 



Size, medium. Colors, faded orange, banded and 

 marked above with dull black. No silver Ijelow. Wings, 

 large, not much pointed nor conypicuously angled. An- 

 tennae, long, but the club is not suddenly enlarged termi- 

 nalh', and it is not much flattened. Type, E. Claudia. 

 (Plate IV, 2.) 



15o. EUPTOIETA CLAUDIA Cram. 

 Pale-red Butterfly. 



Pale orange yellow above with dusky markings as follows ; a rather 

 wide border to outer margin of both wings, enclosing a row of yellowish 

 spots ; within this border is a row of round spots, then two rather zig- 

 zag bands, between which the ground color is very pale, while in the cen- 

 tral cell of fore wing, is a dusky-ringed, pale spot, and within this is a 

 short dash, directly beneath which, nearer the lower margin, is an arrow- 

 shaped mark, and in central cell of hind wing a dash. 



Beneath, the markings are repeated but much obscured with whit- 

 ish, and there are lines of whitish on base of hind wing. Expands, 1.00 

 to 2.'jO. Habitat, from Maine and Massachusetts, where it is rare, 

 south to the Gulf of Mexico, west through the INI'ssissippi Valley, to 

 Colorado, Arizona, and California ; occasionally occurs in New Ilamj)- 

 sliire and Quebec. Found in Florida throughout tlie year, excepting, 

 perhaps, in December and January ; further north in mid-summer. 



inc. EUPTOIETA IIEGESIA Cram. 

 Dotted Butterfly. 

 Similar to E. claudia, but differs in being brighter, in having the 

 markings above darker, in the outer zigzag band on fore wing being near- 

 ly, or quite, o1)Soletc, the secondhand is broken into si)ots, and there is 

 a third short, black dash at base of central cell, and also differs in the 

 entire absence of any markings inside the row of spots on hind wings, 

 Fig. 28, d. Beneath, the hind wings arc marbled with whitish and dusky 

 Expands, 1 .S,"j to 2 2o. Habitat, West Indies, includ'.ng Bahamas, rare- 



