. 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 Systasea Early Stages.âUnknown. The habitat of this species is southern Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. (7) Hesperia nessus, Edwards, Plate XLVII, Fig. -: (Nessus). Butterfly.âThis singularly marked little species, which prob- ably might be separated from this genus on account of the s
. 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 Systasea Early Stages.âUnknown. The habitat of this species is southern Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. (7) Hesperia nessus, Edwards, Plate XLVII, Fig. -: (Nessus). Butterfly.âThis singularly marked little species, which prob- ably might be separated from this genus on account of the slen- der and prolonged palpi, and no doubt would be by some of the hair-splitting makers of genera, I am content to leave where it has been placed by recent writers. It can be readily recognized by the figure in the plate, as there is nothing else like it in our fauna. Expanse, .80 inch. Early Stages.âUnknown. Sessus occurs in Texas and Arizona. There are a few other species of this genus found within the limits of the United States., but enough have been represented to give a clear conception of the characteristics of the group, which is widely distributed throughout the world. Genus SYSTASEA, Butler Butterfly.âThe palpi are porrect, the third joint projecting forward, the second joint densely sca'ei below. The antennae are slender, the club moderately stout, somewhat bluntly pointed, bent, not hooked. The hind wings are somewhat crenulate, and deeply excised opposite the end of the cell. The fifth vein is lacking. In the fore _ ; lower radial arises from a point nearer the upre- radial than the third median nervule. The fore wings are crossed about the middle by translucent spots or bands. Early Stages.âThe early stages are unknown. (1) Systasea zampa, Edwards, Plate XLVI, M _. ,- v Nruration 01 pig. 1, £ (Zampa). ; _:-_; 5 . Butterfly.âThe wings on the upper side are ochre- â "-' ous. mottled and clouded with dark brown. The primaries are marked about the midd
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