. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies. Genus Poanes Butterfly.—The upper side of the wings in both sexes is cor- rectly shown in the plate. On the under side the fore wings are black, with the costa and the outer margin bordered with reddish, with three small subapical light spots and two or three median spots. On the under side the hind wings are bright yellow, bordered on the costa and on the outer margin for part of their dis- tance with reddish-brown. The female on the under side is more obscurely marked than the male, and the
. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies. Genus Poanes Butterfly.—The upper side of the wings in both sexes is cor- rectly shown in the plate. On the under side the fore wings are black, with the costa and the outer margin bordered with reddish, with three small subapical light spots and two or three median spots. On the under side the hind wings are bright yellow, bordered on the costa and on the outer margin for part of their dis- tance with reddish-brown. The female on the under side is more obscurely marked than the male, and the hind wings are more or less gray in many specimens, lacking the bright yellow which appears N F' ation oFthe uPon tne wings of the male. There is considerable genus Poanes, variation on the under side of the wings. Expanse, enlarged. 3, inch; $, inch. Early Stages.—Not known. The species ranges from New England westward as far as Nebraska, and its range does not appear to extend south of Penn- sylvania, though it has been reported from Colorado, and even from northern Texas, in the Genus PHYCANASSA, Scudder Butterfly.—Antennae short; club straight, with a small crook at the end. The palpi are as in the preceding genus, but a trifle longer. The neuration is shown in the cut, and is very much like that of the preceding genus. Early Stages.—These are wholly unknown. (1) Phycanassa viator, Edwards, Plate XLVI, Fig. 14, i ; Fig. 15, 9 (The Broad- winged Skipper). Butterfly.— Accurately delineated in the plate. On the under side the wings are as on the upper side, but paler, and the secondaries are traversed from the base to the middle of the outer margin by a pale light-colored longi- tudinal ray, which is more or less obscured in some specimens, especially of the female. The light spots of the upper side appear indistinctly on the under side. Expanse, $ , inch; 9, inch. 362. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images t
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