. The butterfly book;. Butterflies. Genus Hylephila (2) Polites mardon, Edwards, Plate XLVII, Fig. 26, $ (The Oregon Skipper). Butterfly.— On the under side the wings are pale gray, with the light spots of the primaries and a curved median band of spots on the secondaries whitish. Expanse, $, inch; ?, inch. Early Stages.— Unknown. The only specimens I have, including the types, were taken in Oregon and Washington. (3) Polites sabuleti, Edwards, Plate XLVII, Fig. 42, $ ; Fig. 43, $ (The Sand-hill Skipper). Butterfly.— Small, the male on the upper side looking like a diminutive and dar
. The butterfly book;. Butterflies. Genus Hylephila (2) Polites mardon, Edwards, Plate XLVII, Fig. 26, $ (The Oregon Skipper). Butterfly.— On the under side the wings are pale gray, with the light spots of the primaries and a curved median band of spots on the secondaries whitish. Expanse, $, inch; ?, inch. Early Stages.— Unknown. The only specimens I have, including the types, were taken in Oregon and Washington. (3) Polites sabuleti, Edwards, Plate XLVII, Fig. 42, $ ; Fig. 43, $ (The Sand-hill Skipper). Butterfly.— Small, the male on the upper side looking like a diminutive and darkly bordered phylams. On the under side the wings are paler than on the upper side; the still paler spots of the discal areas are defined outwardly and inwardly by elongated dark spots. Expanse, inch. Early Stages. — Unknown. The habitat of this species is California. Genus HYLEPHILA, Billberg Butterfly.—The antennae are very short, scarcely one third the length of the costa of the fore wing; the club is robust and short, with a very minute crook at the end; the palpi are as in the two preceding genera. The neuration of the wings is represented in the cut. Early Stages.—As yet but partially known. The larva feeds on grasses, and the mature form has been figured by Abbot, a copy of whose draw- ing is given by Dr. Scudder in Plate 77 of "The Butterflies of New ; (i) Hylephila phylaeus, Drury, Plate XLVI, Fig. 18, 6 ; Fig. 19, ? ; Plate VI, Fig. 39, chrysalis Neu'r'uion'Sti;; (The Fiery Skipper). genus Hylephila, Butterfly.—The upper side is correctly shown enlarged. |^ ^^^q plate. On the under side the wings are pale yellow, with a few small, round spots on the margin and disk of the hind wings, a black patch at the base, large black marginal spots, and a central, interrupted, longitudinal black streak on the disk of the primaries. Expanse, inch. 354. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may
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