212 NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



other below this; near apex is a row of three small spots. Beneath 

 spots of fore wings repeated, along upper border, apex, and outer mar- 

 gin of fore wing, and the entire surface of hind pair, excepting two bands 

 of spots and the inner angle, rich purple ; remainder of surface dark 

 brown. Expands 2.00. Habitat, Key West, Florida. 



GENUS LXVI. PYRRHOPYGA. YELLOWISH SKIPPERS. 



Size, large. Colors, rather bright. Fore wings round- 

 ed at apex. Hind wings with inner angle produced a lit- 

 tle. Club, bent. 



610. PYRRHOPYGA ARAXES Hew. 

 OcHERY Skipper. 

 Dark brown above, along outer margin of both wings ; on f 3re pair 

 are ten glassy yellow spots, three near apex, a fourth near these toward 

 base, three in a band below these and three on end of cell. Lower side 

 of both wings yellow ochre, excepting outerhalf of fore wings and along 

 outer border of hind wings ; spots repeated. Expands 2.10. Habitat* 

 Arizona and Southward. 



GENUS LXVII. MEGATHYMUS. MOTH-LIKE SKIPPERS. 



Size, large. Colors, dull yellowish. Fore wings, nar- 

 row and rounded at apex. Hind wings, oval ; body, thick 

 and moth-like. Club of antennae, slightly bent. 



611. MEGATHYMUS YUCCAE Bd-Lec. 

 Yucca Skipper. 



Deep umber above, base of both wings tinged with yellow, fore wings 

 marked with yellow as in Fig. 59, a. Hind wings unmarked in male, 

 with four dots near outer border in female ; brown beneath, brighter 

 than above, outer portions of both wings pearly gray, with a patch of the 

 same in middle of upper border of hind wing and a white crescent below 

 it, spots of fore wings repeated. Expands 2.50 to 3.00. Found in 

 Southern States, New Mexico, and Arizona. 



612. MEGATHYMUS COFAQUI Str. 

 Strecker's Moth Skipper. 

 Quite like M. yuccae, but differs in having five spots only on outer 

 portion of fore wing, and in being more yellow at base. The female 



