Genus Coenonympha 



Genus CCENONYMPHA, Westwood 

 (The Ringlets) 



*' There is a differency between a grub and a butterfly; yet your butterfly was a 

 grub." — Shakespeare. 



Butterfly. — Small butterflies. The costal, median, and sub- 

 median veins are all strongly swollen. The palpi are very 

 heavily clothed with hairs, the last joint quite long and porrect 

 The antennae are short, delicate, gradually but 

 distinctly clubbed. The eyes are naked. Both 

 wings on the outer margin are evenly rounded. 



Egg. — The egg is conical, truncated, flat on the 

 top, rounded at the base, with the sides marked 

 with numerous low, narrow ribs, between which 

 are slight cross-lines, especially toward the apex. 



Caterpillar. — The head is globular; the body 

 is cylindrical, tapering gradually backward, fur- Fig. 117.— Neu- 

 nished in the last segment with two small hori- '^ct'Znlmphf'^''^ 

 zontal cone-shaped projections. 



Chrysalis. — Ventrally straight, dorsally convex, strongly 

 produced in a rounded, somewhat keeled eminence over the 

 thorax ; pointed at the end. Generally green or light drab in color, 

 with dark markings on the sides of the wing-cases. 



This genus is distributed throughout the temperate regions 

 both of the Old and the New World, and includes in our fauna a 

 number of forms, the most of which are peculiar to the Pacific 

 coast. 



(i) Coenonympha California, Doubleday and Hewitson, 

 Plate XXV, Fig. 14, ? ; form galactinus, Boisduval, Plate XXV, 

 Fig. 9, 6 ; form eryngii, Henry Edwards, Plate XXV, Fig. 10, 

 6 (The California Ringlet), 



Butterfly. — This little species is to be distinguished from its 

 near allies by its white color. The form galactinus is the winter 

 form; the form California the summer form. The former is 

 characterized by the darker color of the hind wings on the under 

 side and the more prominent development of the marginal ocelli. 

 The form eryngii is simply a yellower form, with less dark 

 shading on the under side. 



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