Genus Limochores 



Genus LIMOCHORES, Scudder 



Butterfly. -The antennae are about half as long as the costa; 

 the club is robust, elongate, with a very short terminal crook; the 

 palpi have the third joint erect, short, bluntly conical. 

 The male has a linear discal stigma on the upper side 

 of the fore wing, as shown in the cut. 



Egg. Hemispherical, somewhat flattened on the 

 top, the surface broken up by delicate raised lines 

 into pentagonal cells. 



Caterpillar. Largest on the fourth and fifth ab- 

 dominal segments, tapering to either end. The lar- FlG 174. 

 vse feed on grasses, and construct a tube-like nest Neuration of 

 of delicate films of silk between the blades. mochoreT en- 



Chry salts. Comparatively slender, strongly con- larged. 

 vex on the thoracic segments and on the dorsal side of the last 

 segments of the abdomen. On the ventral side the chrysalis is 

 nearly straight. The cremaster, which is short, is bent upward 

 at an oblique angle with the line of the ventral surface. 



(1) Limochores taumas, Fabricius, Plate XLVII, Fig. 20, 

 $ ; Plate VI, Fig. 44, chrysalis (The Fawny-edged Skipper). 



Butterfly. The upper side of the male is excellently por- 

 trayed in the plate. The female is without the tawny edge 

 on the fore wing, the entire wing being olivaceous, with three 

 small subapical spots and a median row of four spots beyond 

 the end of the cell, increasing in size toward the inner margin. 

 On the under side in both sexes the wings are uniformly dull 

 olivaceous, with the spots of the upper side repeated. The costa 

 of the male is edged with red on this side, as well as on the upper 

 side. Expanse, $, i.ooinch; ?, 1.20 inch. 



Early Stages. The reader who wishes to know about them 

 may consult the pages of "The Butterflies of New England." 

 The caterpillar feeds on grasses. 



The insect ranges from Canada to the Gulf, and westward to 

 Texas, Colorado, and Montana. 



(2) Limochores manataaqua, Scudder, Plate XLVI, Fig. 30, 

 $ (The Cross-line Skipper). 



Butterfly. The male on the upper side is dusky-olive, with a 

 black discal streak below the cell, which is slightly touched with 



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