258 BUTTERFLIES 



wings grayish marked with dark spots and an orange line 

 near the margin. 



Bronze Copper {Chrysophanus thoe). Wing expanse Ij 

 inches. Male. Upper wing surface coppery brown 

 marked with dark spots and a tawny orange sub-marginal 

 band along outer margin of hind wings. Under surface 

 of front wings lighter orange with blackish spots and of 

 hind wings grayish with blackish spots and an orange sub- 

 marginal band. Female. Upper surface of front wings 

 tawny orange with blackish spots. 



THE TRIBE OF THE BLUES 



These beautiful little butterflies are well named, for 

 the majority of them are colored in exquisite tints of blue. 

 They are distinguished from the Coppers by this blue col- 

 oring, as well as by the fact that the spines on the under 

 side of the tarsi are arranged in rows rather than in clus- 

 ters and are comparatively few in number. The body is 

 rather slender and the under surfaces of the wings are 

 generally dotted in a characteristic fashion. Most of the 

 two score or more species found in North America occur 

 on the Pacific Coast or in the Southwest, less than half a 

 dozen being common in the eastern region. 



The Spring Azure 



Cyaniris ladon 



For a wee bit of a gossamer-winged creature that ex- 

 pands scarcely an inch across its outstretched wings, the 



