Genus Callicore 



Genus CALLICORE, Hiibner 

 (The Leopard-spots) 



Butterfly. — Small-sized butterflies, with the upper side of the 

 wings dark in color, marked with bands of shining metallic blue 

 or silvery-green, the under side of the wings generally more or 

 less brilliantly colored, carmine upon the pri- 

 maries and silvery-white upon the secondaries, 

 with the apex of the primaries marked with 

 black transverse bands and the body of the 

 secondaries traversed by curiously arranged 

 bands of deep black, these bands inclosing 

 about the middle of the wing circular or pear- 

 shaped spots. All of the subcostal nervules in 

 this genus arise beyond the end of the cell. 

 The costal and the median veins are swollen 

 Fig. 103.— Neura- near the base. The cell in both the fore and 

 tion of the genus o/- j^ind wings is open. 



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Early Stages. — Very little is known of these. 



This genus numbers about thirty species, almost all of which 

 are found in South America, only one being known to inhabit the 

 United States, being found in the extreme southern portion of 

 Florida, and there only rarely. 



(i) Callicore clymena, Hubner, Plate XXI, Fig. 5, 6 \ Fig. 

 6, 3 , under side (The Leopard-spot). 



Butterfly. — The wings on the upper side are black, the pri- 

 maries crossed by an oblique iridescent bluish-green band, and 

 the secondaries marked by a similarly colored marginal band. On 

 the under side the primaries are crimson from the base to the 

 outer third, which is white, margined with black, and crossed by 

 an outer narrow black band and an inner broad black band. The 

 secondaries on this side are white, marked about the middle by 

 two large coalescing black spots, and nearer the costa a large 

 pear-shaped spot, both ringed about with black lines. Beyond 

 these black rings are two black bands conformed to the outline 

 of the inner and outer margins of the wing, and, in addition, a 

 fine black marginal line. The costa is edged with crimson. 

 Expanse, 1.75 inch. 



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