GENUS LEREMA SCODDER 



(1) Lerema accius (Smith & Abbot), Plate CXLIX, Fig. 1, <f (The Grimy Skipper). 

 The wings on the under side are dark fuscous clouded with still deeper brown or black 



Expanse 1.40-1.50 inch. 



Occurs from Connecticut to Central America, being quite rare in the north but very 

 common in the hot lands of the south. 



(2) Lerema hianna (Scudder), Plate CXLIX, Fig. 2, d* (The Dusted Skipper). 



The upper side is well represented in our figure. On the under side the wings are a little 

 paler, especially the hind wings, which on their outer half are dusted with gray, in certain 

 lights having a bluish cast. Expanse 1.15-1,25 inch. 



Ranges from New England to Nebraska and southward, but. so far as the writer know? 

 not reaching the Gulf States. 



SUBFAMILY MEGATHYMIN/E (THE GIANT SKIPPERS) 



These curious insects have been by some writers placed among the Castniidce, a family 

 of day-flying moths, but as the author stated in 1898 in "The Butterfly Book," they appear 

 to have much more in common with the Hesperiidse than the Castniidse. The proposition 

 to include them in the Hesperiidse as a subfamily under the name given above has since 

 that time been generally accepted by systematists. There are a number of species belonging 

 to the genus Megathymus, several of which occur within our faunal limits, but we shall con- 



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