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383. CHPtYSOPIIANUS HERMES Edw. 



Hermes Copper. 

 Size, small. Tail, present. Pale yellowish red above. Upper and 

 outer margin of fore wings brown. There is an irregular row of brown 

 spots crossing wing, one spot at end of cell and another within it. On 

 hind wings is a sub-marginal row of dusky spots, and a spot at end of 

 cell. Beneath, pale buffwith outer margin grayish, spots on fore wings 

 repeated. On hind wings the basal two-thirds is grayish, and a margi- 

 nal border is clouded with gray. There is a row of black spots crossing 

 wing; at end of cell a line, and along upper margin three dots and three 

 others at base. At inner angle is a black spot and near it are others of 

 dusky. Expands .00. Found in California and Nevada. 



384. CHRYSOPHANUS XANTHOIDES Bd. 



Slaty Copper. 

 Size, very large. Tail, very short. Fig. 51, b. Slaty blue with a 

 dusky line at end of cell on both wings, and a dusky dot in cell of fore 

 wing. There is a narrow black border to outer margin and the fringes 

 are white. There are fjur black spots on outer margin of hind wing, 

 that nearest inner angle a crescent, and large, tlie next, smaller, and tri- 

 angular, these two are surrounded with pale orange, the next two are 

 small. Beneath, pale buff, with a double row of dusky spots near out- 

 er margin, and a very irregular line within this, three in central cell of 

 fore wing, two in cell of hind pair, one spot below this on both wings, and 

 two in base of hind pair. There are two oblong crescents near inner 

 angle. Female 3'ellowish red, dusky bordered, within which is a line of 

 triangular spots black, within this a dusky line running into dusky apex 

 on fore wings. There is a line of black spots crossing fure wings, and 

 of dusky on hind pair, one black at end of cell on fore wings, one in cell, 

 and one below it: at end of cell, < n hind wings, is a dusky line, and tlie 

 base of both wings is dusky. Expands 1.40 to l.oO. Found in Cali- 

 fornia. 



385. CHRYSOPHANUS EDITHIA .Mead. 

 Edith's Copper. 

 Size, medium. No tails. Similar above to C. xanthoides. Be- 

 low grayer, and there is a band of gray on the outer margin, cut by a 

 dusky line, which begins on the lower margins, and extends out on the 

 lower and second branch of the middle vein, thus leaving a white black- 

 ^pupiled spot on inner angle. At inner edge of this gray band the white 



