NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 147 



central cell on both wings, are two black dots. Expands 1.15 to 1.40. 

 Found from New England to Arizona, and in Ontario, Quebec, and Old 

 Man's River, British America. 



Firr. 51. 



a c d b e f 



Illustrating the ccnus Thecla, lower side, hind wint; ; a, augustus; b, smilacis; c, irus; d, ni- 

 phon: e, titus; f, antennae of same. 



GENUS LI. 

 FENISECA. RINGED BUTTERFLIES. 

 Size, medium. Colors orange, marked with dusky 

 above. Brown mottled beneath, ringed with white on hind 

 wino's. Fore wma'striancrular ; hmdwmos, oval. Anten- 

 nae, a little longer than half the length of fore whig. Type 

 F. TARQUiNUs. ( Plate IX, 8. ) 



380. FENISECA TARQUINIUS. 



Brown Mottled Butterfly. 

 Above pale reddish orange, with outer border of fore wing broadly 

 margined near upper and lower border, more narrowly in the middle, 

 and very narrowly on lower border with brown. Central cell, all but a 

 narrow strip on lower side, a dot near its end, one below this, and an 

 elongated line near base, dark brown. Base and upper border of hind 

 wing, a dot at end of central cell, and a sub-marginal row^ of spots also 

 brown. Lower side paler than above, rusty on outer and upper border 

 of fore wings, and on hind pair, with seven white-ringed reddish brown 

 spots on fire wings as in i)laie, and with numerous white ringed spots 

 of a more rusty hue on hind pair. Expands 1.15 to 1.30. Found in 

 Atlantic States. Rare in New England, Mississippi Valley, Ontario, 

 and Quebec. 



GENUS UI. CHRYSOPHANUS. COPPERS. 

 Size, small. Colors reddish or brownish, with either 

 one sex or both spotted on both surfaces with darker. Dif- 

 fers mainly from Thecla in the presence of the spottings, 



