Genus Euphyes 



ward and backward from the middle, the body profusely covered 

 with minute tapering hairs arising from small, wart-like protu- 

 berances. 



Chrysalis. — Thus far undescribed. 



(i) Euphyes verna, Edwards, Plate XLVI, Fig. 32, 8 (The 

 Little Glass-wing). 



Butterfly. — The upper side of the male is correctly delineated 

 in the plate. On the under side the wings are paler, inclining 

 to purplish-red. The spots of the upper side are repeated, but in 

 addition about the middle of the hind wings there 

 is a semicircle of pale spots. Expanse, 3 , i . 1 5 inch ; 

 9, 1.35 inch. 



Early Stages. — We do not know much of these; 

 what little we do know may be found recorded in 

 the pages of "The Butterflies of New England." 

 The caterpillar feeds on grasses. 



It ranges from southern New England to Vir- 

 Fig. 175.— ginia, westward to Kansas, and northward to the 



Neuration of the . , . ., ... .. . _. . 



genus Euphyes, province of Alberta. It is quite common in Ohio, 



enlarged. Indiana, and Illinois. 



(2) Euphyes metacomet, Harris, Plate XLVI, Fig. 31, $ 

 (The Dun Skipper). 



Butterfly.— The male is dark in color on the upper side, and 

 on the under side the wings are a shade lighter, the lower side 

 of the abdomen being generally paler. The female has some 

 faint traces of translucent apical spots near the costa, and two 

 minute translucent spots on either side of the second median 

 nervule near its origin. On the under side the spots of the 

 upper side reappear. There is a faint trace of a semicircle of 

 pale spots about the middle of the hind wing. The female 

 specimens vary on the under side from pale brown to a dis- 

 tinctly purplish-brown. Expanse, $ , 1.15 inch; ?, 1.30 inch. 



Early stages. — Next to nothing is known of these. 



It ranges from Quebec to the Carolinas, and westward to 

 Texas, New Mexico, and the British possessions east of the 

 Rocky Mountains, as far north as the latitude of the northern 

 shores of Lake Superior. 



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