. 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 Calephelis plate. On the under side the wings are pale red, marked with a few black spots, representing on the under side the markings of the upper side. Of these, the spots of the median and sub- marginal bands are most conspicuous. Expanse, inch. (a) Lemonias zela, Butler, var. cl
. 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 Calephelis plate. On the under side the wings are pale red, marked with a few black spots, representing on the under side the markings of the upper side. Of these, the spots of the median and sub- marginal bands are most conspicuous. Expanse, inch. (a) Lemonias zela, Butler, var. cleis, Edwards, Plate XXVIII, Fig. 19, $ ; Fig. 20, ? (Cleis). The pale variety, cleis, is sufficiently well represented in our plate to need no description. On the under side it is like L. %ela. The species occurs in Arizona and Mexico. Genus CALEPHELIS, Grote and Robinson Butterfly.—Very small, brown or reddish in color, with me- tallic spots upon the wings. Head small; eyes naked; antennae relatively long, slender, with a bluntly rounded club. Palpi very short; the third joint small, pointed. The accompanying cut shows the neu- ration. Early Stages.—Entirely unknown. (1) Calephelis csenius, Linnaeus, Plate XXVIII, Fig. 16, 6 (The Little Metal-mark). Fig. 127.—Neu- Butterfly.—Very small, reddish-brown on the tation of the genus upper side, brighter red on the under side. On Calephelis. , , , , , both the upper and under sides the wings are profusely spotted with small steely-blue metallic markings, ar- ranged in more or less regular transverse series, especially on the outer margin. Expanse, .75 inch. Early Stages.—The life-history is unknown. Cccnius is common in Florida, and ranges thence northward to Virginia and westward to Texas. (2) Calephelis borealis, Grote and Robinson, Plate XXVIII, Fig. 12, $, under side; Fig. 13, 6 (The Northern Metal-mark). Butterfly.—Fully twice as large as the preceding species. The wings on the upper side are sooty-brown, spotted wit
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