Butterfly.—The antennæ are very short; the club is thick, straight, rounded at the tip; the palpi are as in the preceding genus. The neuration of the wings is represented in the cut. The abdomen is slender, extending beyond the hind margin of the secondaries. The male is provided in most species with a linear stigma.
Early Stages.—These have not as yet been described.
(1) Copæodes procris, Edwards, Plate XLVII, Fig. 9, ♂ (Procris).
Butterfly.—The plate gives an excellent idea of the upper side of this diminutive species. On the under side the wings are colored as on the upper side, save that the fore wings at the base near the inner margin are blackish, and that the hind wings are a trifle paler than on the upper side. The sexes do not differ in color. Expanse, .75-1.00 inch.
This pretty little butterfly is a Southern species, is found plentifully in Texas and Arizona, and occurs also very commonly in southern California.
[a]Fig. 165.]—Neuration of the genus Copæodes.
(2) Copæodes wrighti, Edwards, Plate XLVII, Fig. 10, ♂ (Wright's Skipper).
Butterfly.—This species may be easily distinguished from the preceding by the dark fringes of both the fore and the hind wing and by the different arrangement of the discal stigma on the fore wing. On the under side it is colored very much as procris. Expanse, .75-1.10 inch.
Early Stages.—Unknown.