Butterfly.—Small, the male on the upper side looking like a diminutive and darkly bordered phylæus. On the under side the wings are paler than on the upper side; the still paler spots of the discal areas are defined outwardly and inwardly by elongated dark spots. Expanse, 1.00-1.10 inch.
Early Stages.—Unknown.
The habitat of this species is California.
Genus HYLEPHILA, Billberg
Butterfly.—The antennæ are very short, scarcely one third the length of the costa of the fore wing; the club is robust and short, with a very minute crook at the end; the palpi are as in the two preceding genera. The neuration of the wings is represented in the cut.
Early Stages.—As yet but partially known.
The larva feeds on grasses, and the mature form has been figured by Abbot, a copy of whose drawing is given by Dr. Scudder in Plate 77 of "The Butterflies of New England."
[a]Fig. 170.]—Neuration of the genus Hylephila, enlarged.
(1) Hylephila phylæus, Drury, Plate XLVI, Fig. 18, ♂; Fig. 19, ♁; Plate VI, Fig. 39, chrysalis (The Fiery Skipper).