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The species occurs in Arizona and Mexico.

Genus CALEPHELIS, Grote and Robinson

[Ill.u.s.tration FIG. 127.--Neuration of the genus _Calephelis_.]

_b.u.t.terfly._--Very small, brown or reddish in color, with metallic 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 neuration.

_Early Stages._--Entirely unknown.

(1) =Calephelis caenius=, Linnaeus, Plate XXVIII, Fig. 16, ? (The Little Metal-mark).

_b.u.t.terfly._--Very small, reddish-brown on the upper side, brighter red on the under side. On both the upper and under sides the wings are profusely spotted with small steely-blue metallic markings, arranged in more or less regular transverse series, especially on the outer margin.

Expanse, .75 inch.

_Early Stages._--The life-history is unknown.

_Caenius_ 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, ? (The Northern Metal-mark).

_b.u.t.terfly._--Fully twice as large as the preceding species. The wings on the upper side are sooty-brown, spotted with black, and marked by a marginal and submarginal series of small metallic spots. On the under side the wings are light red, spotted with a mult.i.tude of small black spots arranged in regular series. The two rows of metallic spots near the margins are repeated more distinctly on this side. Expanse, 1.15 inch.

_Early Stages._--Unknown.

This rare insect has been taken from New York to Virginia, and as far west as Michigan and Illinois. The only specimen I have ever seen in life I took at the White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia. It settled on the under side of a twig of black birch, with expanded wings, just over my head, and by a lucky stroke of the net I swept it in.

(3) =Calephelis australis=, Edwards, Plate XXVIII, Fig. 14, ? (The Southern Metal-mark).

_b.u.t.terfly._--The wings in the male s.e.x are more pointed at the apex than in the preceding species, and in both s.e.xes are smaller in expanse.

The color of the upper side of the wings is dusky, on the under side pale yellowish-red. On both sides the wings are obscurely marked with dark spots arranged in transverse series. The marginal and submarginal metallic bands of spots are as in the preceding species. Expanse, 1.00 inch.

_Early Stages._--Unknown.

_Australis_ ranges from Texas and Arizona into Mexico.

(4) =Calephelis nemesis=, Edwards, Plate XXVIII, Fig. 15, ? (The Dusky Metal-mark).

_b.u.t.terfly._--Very small,--as small as _coenius_,--but with the fore wings at the apex decidedly pointed in the male s.e.x. The wings are dusky-brown above, lighter obscure reddish below. Both the primaries and the secondaries on the upper side are crossed by a dark median band, broader on the primaries at the costa. The metallic markings are quite small and indistinct. Expanse, .85 inch.

_Early Stages._--Unknown.

_Nemesis_ occurs in Arizona and southern California.

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