THE GOSSAMER-WINGED BUTTERFLIES 



The Gray Hair-streak 



Uranotes melinus (U-ra-no'tes mel'i-nus) 



Plate XXXIII, Fig. 7, 8, 9 



The vertex of the head and the tip of the antennae are 

 orange. The upper surface of the wings is blackish with a 

 slight blue-gray tint; on the middle of the fore wings there 

 is a large, faint, quadrate, cloudy spot of slightly darker 

 scales, extending from near the costal border to cell Cu. 

 Near the outer margin of the hind wings there is an indistinct 

 line of bluish spots. In cell Cu, there is a large orange spot 

 surmounting a smaller black one. The under surface is gray, 

 with two blackish-brown lines crossing each wing, the inner 

 line edged externally with white, and internally, at least on 

 the hind wings, with orange scales. The large orange spot 

 and smaller black one in cell Cu t of the upper surface are 

 repeated. Expanse of wings one and one-fourth inches. 



Caterpillar. — Less than half an inch long and slug- 

 shaped, with very small head. The body is naked, and is 

 reddish brown without markings. 



Food-plants. — The fruit and seeds of hop, hawthorn, 

 hound's-tongue, and St. -John's- wort. 



This little creature just saves itself from 

 Quaker costume by an orange spot or two and 

 by a frivolous white-tipped tail that looks like a 

 curlicue. The female is particularly gay, having 

 two white-tipped tails to her wings which are 

 above yellowish brown in color, and below deli- 

 cate yellowish gray. The gray hair-streak is a 



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