It ranges from New England and Ontario southward and westward over the whole country 

 as far as Arizona and northern Mexico. 



FAMILY ERYCINID^E (THE METAL-MARKS) 



This is a great family of small or rather less than medium-sized butterflies, which is found 

 in both the eastern and western hemispheres, but is mostly confined to the American tropics, 

 where there are known to be about a thousand species, some of them remarkably beautiful in 

 their colors and markings. The males have the fore legs aborted as in the case of the Nympha- 

 lidas, while the females have six legs for walking. In this respect they resemble the Lyccenidce. 

 The chrysalids are not pendent as are those of all the insects which we have hitherto de- 

 scribed in this book, but are held in place by a silken girdle, and are closely appressed to the 

 supporting surface. The strongest mark of distinction from other butterflies is the fact that 

 the precostal vein of the hind wing is located on the extreme inner margin of the wing and 

 sends out a little free hook, very much as is the case in many of the moths. The antennae are 

 very long and slender, distinctly knobbed at the end. Many genera have the peculiarity 

 when alighting of not folding their wings, but carrying them flat, and they have also the habit 

 of hiding under leaves, like moths. Most of the species found in our region occur in the South- 

 western States, two alone are found in the Eastern States. 



GENUS CHARTS HUBNER (THE METAL-MARKS) 



There are nearly fifty species of this genus found in the American tropics. There are 

 but two species in the eastern parts of the United States, and two others in California. The 

 figures we give will enable any one to tell apart the two species found in the Atlantic region. 



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