. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies -- North America. Genus Lerema Early Stages.—Unknown. The insect is found in southern California. Genus LEREMA, Scudder Butterfly.—The antennse are as in the preceding genus; the palpi have the third joint erect, short, conical. The neuration is represented in the cut. The male has a linear glandular streak on the upper side of the fore wing. Egg.—Hemispherical, covered with more or less regularly pentagonal cells. caterpillar feeds upon grasses. The body is slender, tapering
. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies -- North America. Genus Lerema Early Stages.—Unknown. The insect is found in southern California. Genus LEREMA, Scudder Butterfly.—The antennse are as in the preceding genus; the palpi have the third joint erect, short, conical. The neuration is represented in the cut. The male has a linear glandular streak on the upper side of the fore wing. Egg.—Hemispherical, covered with more or less regularly pentagonal cells. caterpillar feeds upon grasses. The body is slender, tapering forward and backward; the head is small. Chrysalis.—The chrysalis is slender, smooth, with a tapering conical projection at the head, and the tongue-case long and free, reaching al- most to the end of the abdomen. FIG 1^0—Neu- (0 Lerema accius, Smith and Abbot, Plate ration of the genus XL VI11, Fig. 8, $ ; Plate VI, Fig. 46, chrysalis Lerema, enlarged. (Acdus)> Butterfly.—The male on the upper side is dark blackish-brown, with three small subapical spots, and one small spot below these, near the origin of the third median nervule. The female is ex- actly like the male, except that it has two spots, the larger one being placed below the small spot corresponding to the one on the fore wing of the male. The wings on the under side are dark fuscous, somewhat clouded with darker brown, the spots of the upper side reappearing on the under side. Expanse, $ , inch; ? , inch. Early Stages.—Very little has been written upon the early stages. The butterfly ranges from southern Connecticut to Florida, thence westward to Texas, and along the Gulf coast in Mexico. (2) Lerema hianna, Scudder, Plate XLVI, Fig. 9, $ ; Fig. 10, ? (The Dusted Skipper). Butterfly.—The upper side is accurately represented in the plate. The wings on the lower side are as on the upper side, a trifle paler and somewhat grayer on the outer margin. Expanse, 3 , inch; ? , inch. 36
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