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389. CHRYSOPIIANUS MARIPOSA Reak. 



Chocolate Copper. 

 Size, rather small. No tails, but the hind -wings are produced in- 

 to an angle on inner side. Chocolate brown above, fringed with lighter 

 and bordered, rather narrowly, with black. There are indications of a 

 paler crescent at inner angle. Ashy beneath, on hind wing, and on up- 

 per and outer border of fore pair ; remainder of fore wings pale buff. 

 There is an outer double line of spots, dusky on hind wings, and out- 

 wardly on fore pair, darker on inner ; the spots in these lines are cres- 

 cent-shaped. The second row of spots are found on fore wings, and 

 separate, crescent-shaped, and nearly joined together on hind pair, while 

 the line is much curved. Fig. 52, d. In central cell of fore wing, are 

 three spots, the one at end double, and one below; three in cell of hind 

 wings, and two above and two below. Female, reddish yellow, black 

 bordered, spotted as is the male below but with the markings enlarged. 

 Below, like male. Expands 1.20 to 1.30. Found in California, Colo- 

 rado, jNIontana, and Summet, British America. 



390. CHRYSOPHANUS ZEROE Bd. 



Orange-bordered Copper. 

 Size, small. Hind wing, angular. Reddish brown above, with a 

 bar at end of cell on both wings, and a minute dot in cell, and there are 

 a few minute dots on hind Aving. Fringes lighter, then comes a nar- 

 row black border represented on hind wings by a row of hemispheres 

 on an orange field. Fig. 02, e. Pale buff beneath, tinged with pink on 

 basal portion of upper border of fore wing, and on outer third of both 

 pair, and with grayish on base of hind wing. There is a narrow mar- 

 ginal line of dusky, a sub-marginal row of three crescents on lower por- 

 tion of fore wing, a row of spots crossing fore wing ; represented on hind 

 pair by a row of minute dots, on side of which are three or four other 

 dots ; there are three spots in central cell of fore wings and one below 

 it. Female below as in the male, but yellowish red above, heavily 

 marked as in allied species. Expands 1.25. Found in California and 

 Colorado. 



391. CHYSOPHANUS HELLOIDES Bd. 

 Spotted Pink Copper. 

 Similar to C. mariposa, but the hind wings above are darker, and 

 the male is spotted like the female, Fig. 53, a. Beneath, the pink tint- 

 ing extends over the entire surface of the hind wing, where the orange 

 zigzag line extends further toward the upper border, and the fore wing 



