(1) Calpodes ethlius, Cramer, Plate XLV, Fig. 3, ♁; Plate VI, Fig. 48, chrysalis (The Brazilian Skipper).
Butterfly.—There can be no mistaking this robust and thick-bodied species. The wings on the under side are dull olive, blackish at the base of the primaries, with all the spots of the upper side repeated. Expanse, 2.00-2.15 inches.
Early Stages.—The caterpillar feeds on the leaves of the canna.
It is common in the Gulf States, and ranges north to South Carolina. A stray specimen was once taken at West Farms, New York. Southward it ranges everywhere through the Antilles to Argentina, in South America.
Genus LERODEA, Scudder
Butterfly.—The antennæ are about half as long as the costa; the club is robust, slightly elongated, with a distinct crook at the extremity; the palpi have the third joint erect, minute, and bluntly conical. The neuration is represented in the cut.
Early Stages.—These are not known.
[a]Fig. 173.]—Neuration of the genus Lerodea, enlarged.
(1) Lerodea eufala, Edwards, Plate XLVI, Fig. 33, ♁ (Eufala).