178 NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



476. PAMPHILA CAllUS Edw. 

 South-western Skipper. 



Size, medium. Pale brown above, slightly j-ellow-tinted ; two mi- 

 nute spots in apex, and two others beneath them, yellowish white ; an 

 obscure spot at end of central cell. Dash, short and black ; hind wings 

 with a curved row of indistinct, minute, yellowish white spots on upper 

 half of wing. Fringes, dull white. Brown below, dusted with yellow- 

 ish on upper and lower margins of both wings. Spots repeated on fore 

 wings, with an extra one at apex, two at end of cell, and two in it. On 

 hind wings, spots enlarged ; also a large spot in cell. Expands 1.10 to 

 1.25. Found in Western Texas and Arizona. 



477. PAMPHILA UNCAS Edw. 



Uncas Skipper. 

 Size, large. Dusky above ; cell of fore wing and patch below dash, 

 orange yellow, outer portion washed with yellow, containing a row of five 

 yellow spots. Dash, narrow, jet black, and contracted in the middle. 

 Hind wings, heavily washed with yellow, excepting on upper border, 

 orange-tinted in central portion, white-fringed. Gray beneath, yellow- 

 washed ; spots, repeated, white, and those on outer margin of fore wing 

 run together in three groups. On hind wings are two very much bent 

 bands, the outer not reaching lower margin. Female, with the base and 

 outer portion of fore wing, and a broad band from base to outer margin, 

 washed with orange. On outer portion of fore wings is a broken row of 

 spots, whitish, excepting the last which is yellowish, and a small spot 

 at end of cell; on hind wings the spots below show indistinctly, beneath 

 as in male. Expands 1.35 to l.GO. Found from Delaware to Ohio; 

 from Dakota to Arizona, and in British America. 



478. PAMPHILA LICINUS Edw. 

 Texas Skipper. 

 Size, medium. Dusky above, with a large orange patch in center 

 of fore wing, within which is the dash, which is long, narrow, and slight- 

 ly curved, dusky, velvet black at the extremities. There are three spots 

 in apex, two below these, opposite cell, and a small orange spot at end of 

 dash nearly connected with the central patch. On hind wings is a large 

 sub-triangular patch, dusky in center, paler toward outer portion ; fringe, 

 grayish. Beneath, brown, overwashed with orange on upper margin of 

 fore wdng, especially next base; spots, repeated, with two extra at end 

 of cell, and two larger yellowish white, below dash, reaching lower mar- 



