. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. With 48 plates in color-photography, reproductions of butterflies in the author's collection, and many text illustrations presenting most of the species found in the United States. Butterflies -- North America. 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.— U
. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. With 48 plates in color-photography, reproductions of butterflies in the author's collection, and many text illustrations presenting most of the species found in the United States. Butterflies -- North America. 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 phylceus. 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 ; (1) Hylephila phylaeus, Drury, Plate XLVI, Fig. 18, $ ; Fig. 19, ? ; Plate VI, Fig. 39, chrysalis NeurSion'Stn; (The Fiery Skipper). genus Hylephila, Butterfly.—The upper side is correctly shown enlarged. jn ^ pjate Qn t^e un(jer side the wings are pale yellow, with a few small, round spots on the margin and disk of the
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