170 NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



GENUS LVI. COPAEODES. YELLOW SKIPPERS. 



Size, small ; colors, yellowish, brown-bordered. Fore 

 wings, long and triangular, hind pair, sliort, and also tri- 

 angular. Body, short and stout. Antennae with terminal 

 process of club, small and blunt, not hooked. Type C. 

 WRiGHTii. (Plate X. 4.) 



450. COPAEODES WRIGHTII Edw. 

 Wright's Yellow Skipper. 

 Y'ellowish orange, paler beneath, narro-\vly bordered with dusky, 

 excepting on lower border, this being broken into dots on lower surface. 

 There is an oblique dash across middle of fore wiug above, and some 

 dusky scales on hind wing below near base. Expands .85. Habitat, 

 Mohave, California. 



451. COPAEODES MYRTIS Edw. 

 Arizona Yellow Skipper. 

 Bright reddish orange above, brown-bordered all around, excepting 

 lower margin of fore wings, outwardly on fore wings broadest atapex^ 

 narrowing to lower margin, narrowly on upper half of our temargin of 

 hind wings, and on lower margin, but broadly on upper margin. Brown 

 on lower surface of fore wings, yellowish at apex, and there is a black 

 stripe from base to lower angle. On hind wings wholly yellowish. Ex- 

 pands .80. Habitat, Arizona. 



452. COPAEODE-S ENNUS Edw. 

 Pale Yellow Skipper. 

 Similar to C. wrightii, but diifers in being much paler above, there 

 is no black border to outer margin of fore wings, this being restricted to 

 upper margin, and on this wing there is a black stripe along lower mar- 

 gin of base, in addition to the oblique dash. Expands l.Oi). Habitat, 

 Kern River, California. 



453. COPAEODES PROCRIS Edw. 



Procris Skipper. 



Bright glossy yellow above, dusky near base of upper margin of 



fore wing ; there is a straight black streak beloAv central cell on a ridge 



raised above the surface. Beneath, paler on hind wings ; at base of fore 



pair is a black patch, not reaching upper margin, and extending half 



