Genus Pamphila 



This little insect ranges from North Carolina southward to 

 Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. 



FIG. 162. 

 Neuration of 

 the genus Pam- 

 phila. 



Genus PAMPHILA, Fabricius 



Butterfly. The antennae are very short, less than half the 

 length of the costa. The club is stout, elongate, and blunt at its 

 extremity; the palpi are porrect, densely clothed with scales, 

 concealing the third joint, which is minute, slender, 

 and bluntly conical. The body is long, slender, and 

 somewhat produced beyond the hind margin of the 

 secondaries. The neuration of the wings is repre- 

 sented in the cut. 



Egg. Hemispherical, vertically ribbed, the inter- 

 spaces uniformly marked with little pitted depres- 

 sions. 



Caterpillar. The body is cylindrical, slender, 

 tapering forward and backward ; the neck less stran- 

 gulated than in many of the genera. The body is somewhat hairy; 

 the spiracles on the sides open from minute subconical elevations. 

 Chrysalis. Not materially differing in outline and structure 

 from the chrysalids of other genera which have already been de- 

 scribed. 



Only a single species belonging to the genus is found in 

 North America. 



(i) Pamphila mandan, Edwards, Plate XLXII, Fig. I, 3 

 (The Arctic Skipper). 



Butterfly. No description of this interesting little insect is 

 necessary, as the figure in the plate will enable the student at 

 once to distinguish it. It is wholly unlike any other species. 

 Expanse, i.io inch. 



Early Stages. These have been described by Dr. Scudder and 

 Mr. Fletcher. The caterpillar feeds on grasses. 



The insect ranges from southern Labrador as far south as the 

 White Mountains and the Adirondacks, thence westward, follow- 

 ing a line north of the Great Lakes to Vancouver's Island and 

 Alaska. It ranges southward along the summits of the Western 

 Cordilleras as far as northern California. 



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