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492. PAMPIIILA HURON ED^v. 

 Huron Skipper. 

 Size, medium. Dark golden yellow above on fore wings. Dash, 

 pointed outwardly, wider at base, and in a rounded velvety black patch; 

 at end of dash between it and the margin is a dusky patch. Hind wings 

 with the central portion yellow. Dull yellowish orange beneath, gray- 

 ish-tinged on hind wings, and at apex of fore pair, where the basal half 

 and lower border is blackish, and there is a faint sub-marginal band. 

 Base of hind wings dusky, with a faint sub-marginal band. Female, 

 dusky tinged, fore wings yellowish at base and along upper border with 

 a sub-marginal row of spots, hind wing yellowish, with a wide band not 

 reaching either margin ;beneath, on fore wing like male Avith the hind 

 wings hoary, two curved rows of white confluent spots. Expands 1.20 

 to l.ijO. Found in the Atlantic States south of New England to Flor- 

 ida, up the Mississippi Valley and in Texas and Arizona, Fig, oC), b. 



493. PAINIPHILA PHYLAEUS Dury. 

 Wedge-marked Skipper. 

 Size, medium. Bright orange above ; bar at end of central cell of 

 fore wing with two longitudinal lines from it outwardly, and a series of 

 brown marginal wedge-shaped spots, smallest opposite cell, Fig. 50, c. 

 Dash, black and somewhat curved, and a little dusky beneath it. Hind 

 wings brown-bordered all around, separated on outer margin, broken at 

 lower vein, and nearly or quite at the lower branch of the middle vein, 

 and the spot thus isolated is large, and sends a line back through the 

 middle of the interspace to the base. Beneath, pale orange yellow, 

 dusky at base, and along the lower border of fore wing, dash represented 

 by an oval patch, narrow bar at end of cell, and the marginal wedges 

 have the points represented only, there being a clear space between 

 these and the margin. On hind wings is a large oblong dusky patch 

 near lower margin and two rows of spots crossing wing, all small. Fe- 

 male, brown, marked with pale orange as follows : on fore wing, three 

 spots at apex, two below these, two within them at end of central cell, 

 and an oblique band of spots below these. On hind wings, an arrow- 

 shaped band of spots with arms, nearly reaching the upper and lower 

 borders, and within, near base, a spot. Beneath paler, spots repeated, 

 enlarged, and pale. Expands 1.25 to 1.40. Found in the Middle and 

 Gulf States to the Pacifiic. 



