Early Stages.—Unknown.
The species was originally described from Colorado.
(5) Amblyscirtes textor, Edwards, Plate XLVII, Fig. 16, ♂, under side (The Woven-winged Skipper).
Butterfly.—This little species, the under side of which is accurately delineated in the plate, needs no description to characterize it, as its peculiar markings serve at once to distinguish it from all other species. Expanse, 1.25-1.45 inch.
Early Stages.—Unknown.
This little insect ranges from North Carolina southward to Florida, Louisiana, and Texas.
Genus PAMPHILA, Fabricius
Butterfly.—The antennæ are very short, less than half the length of the costa. The club is stout, elongate, and blunt at its extremity; the palpi are porrect, densely clothed with scales, concealing the third joint, which is minute, slender, and bluntly conical. The body is long, slender, and somewhat produced beyond the hind margin of the secondaries. The neuration of the wings is represented in the cut.
Egg.—Hemispherical, vertically ribbed, the interspaces uniformly marked with little pitted depressions.