236 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE WEST COAST 



409. Copaeodes Procris. 



Plate XXX ; Figures 409, b, c. 



Fig. 409, Male, Tucson, Arizona, June, 1887 ; Author. 



b, Female, Santa Rita Mountains. June, 1903 ; 



F. Stephens. 



c. Female, underside, Tucson, Arizona, June, 1887; 



Author. 



Procris was first made known in 1870, from specimens taken 

 near Tucson. It is found on the plains and hills and on the moun- 

 tains to a height of 6,000 feet, as on the Santa Ritas, and the Santa 

 Catalinas. It is quite a warm-blooded little thing, enjoying the 

 hot, dry air of the semi-desert country when the mercury dallies 

 with the 100 mark. Procris is quite local, not going eastward into 

 New Mexico, nor westward towards Yuma, nor to the northward. 

 No one has noted the food-plant, but doubtless it is grass of some 

 sort. 



Variety Waco. There is a small-sized form, supposed to be a 

 form of Procris, that has received the name of Waco ; it is much 

 smaller, but of about the same color, and with the same lack of 

 distinguishing marks. It has the same habitat as Procris. 



411. Copaeodes Candida. Not elsewhere illustrated. 

 Plate XXX; Figures 411, b, c. 



Fig. 411, Male, San Bernardino Valley, August 26, 1897; 

 Author. 



b. Female, San Bernardino Valley, August 5, 1895 ; 



Author. 



c. Female, underside, San Bernardino Valley, April 



10, 1896; Author. 



This species was first found in 1883, and was published by the 

 Author in 1890, from the female only, as the male was not known 

 at that time, although I had a dozen examples of the female. 

 Candida is a size larger than Procris ; the male is darker than any 

 Procris, and has a sex-mark, an angular dash near the middle of 

 fore wings, which Procris has not. The underside of Candida is 

 flushed with orange, as shown on the plate, as Procris never is. 



The larval food-plant is cynodon dactylon, "Bennuda grass," a 

 grass not native of California, but introduced about 1880, soon 

 after the completion of the Southern Pacific Railroad to Louisiana, 

 where the grass is common ; and soon after the grass became intro- 



