150 NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



edging is condensed into a continuous line of broad crescents : other spots 

 as usual. Expands 1.25 to 1.30. Found at Lake Tahoe, Nevada. 



386. CHRYSOPHANUS GORGON Bd. 



Gorgon Copper. 



Size, large. Tails, absent, but the inner angle of hind wings is pro- 

 duced into a point, Fig. 01, c. Above reddish brown with a purplish 

 tinge, both wings bordered with dusky and fringed with white, at end of 

 central cell on both wings is a dusky line. Yellowish ash beneath, with 

 a marginal line on both wings of dusky, within which is a double row 

 of small dusky spots, the inner row being crescent-shaped, and on hind 

 •wings tinged with orange on the outside. Within this, is an irregular 

 row of black spots, also crossing both wings, a spot at end of central cell 

 on both wings, one in cell on fore wings, and two on hind pair, with one 

 spot on lower border of fore wing, and two on hind pair, and two at base 

 on this wing. Expands 1.55. Found in California and Nevada. 



387. CHRYSOPHANUS TIIOE Bd-Lec. 



Large Copper. 

 Size, large. No tails, and the angle of hind wing is rounded. Dull 

 yellowish red above, with outer border of fore wings and basal three- 

 fourths of hind pair, ashy brown. On fore wing are three blaek spots 

 in central cell, one below it, and a row of spots crosses both wing. On 

 hind wing, are three spots in cell, the outer side by side, and a sub-mar- 

 ginal row, all black. Beneath, yellowish red, with the ashy paler, and 

 restricted on outer border of fore wing, to the upper portion, and there 

 is a narrow border on hind pair. Spots above, repeated, but with ad- 

 ditions as follows, a double sub-marginal row on fore wing, a second sub- 

 marginal row on hind wing, and three spots on lower border, and four 

 at base of this wing. Expands 1.50 to 1.05. Found from New Eng- 

 land, (■V7here it is rare,) to Nebraska, Ohio, Kansas, Colorado. Ontario, 

 and Quebec. 



388. CHRYSOPHANUS DIONE, Scud. 



Dione Copper. 

 Similar to C. thoe, but differs in being brownish gray above, and 

 grayish white beneath ; tlie spottings are also smaller. Found from 

 Iowa to Kansas and in Nebraska. 



