THE GOSSAMER-WINGED BUTTERFLIES 



In the female there is a line of black spots on the outer half 

 of the fore wings that are wanting in the male. Below, the 

 wings are gray spotted with black. Expanse of wings one 

 inch or less. 



Caterpillar. — Not described and food-plant unknown. 



It is very little we know of this Lilliputian but- 

 terfly except that it requires a keen eye helped 

 by a robust imagination to see any purple what- 

 ever on its wings. The female's wings are yellow 

 bronze ; but if the wings of the male are held in 

 the right light there is a sheen upon them that 

 suggests the red purple of the clover blossom. 

 On the under side the wings of the female are 

 lemon yellow, and those of the male gray with 

 yellowish pearly sheen. Surely size has nothing 

 to do with spirit, for this merest mite of a butter- 

 fly is a born fighter, and Mr. Saunders says soon 

 wears out its wings in tilts and combats at but- 

 terfly tournaments. It frequents cranberry bogs 

 and swampy meadows and is very local in its 

 habits. It is found in Canada and New Eng- 

 land and westward to Kansas. 



The American Copper 



Heodes hypophlanis (He-o'des hyp-o-phlas'as) 



Plate XXXVI, Fig. 7, 8 



We have in the East two very common coppers, this species 



and the female of the bronze copper, that closely resemble 



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