Genus LEREMA, Scudder
Butterfly.—The antennæ are as in the preceding genus; the palpi have the third joint erect, short, conical. The neuration is represented in the cut. The male has a linear glandular streak on the upper side of the fore wing.
Egg.—Hemispherical, covered with more or less regularly pentagonal cells.
Caterpillar.—The caterpillar feeds upon grasses. The body is slender, tapering forward and backward; the head is small.
Chrysalis.—The chrysalis is slender, smooth, with a tapering conical projection at the head, and the tongue-case long and free, reaching almost to the end of the abdomen.
[a]Fig. 180.]—Neuration of the genus Lerema, enlarged.
(1) Lerema accius, Smith and Abbot, Plate XLVIII, Fig. 8, ♂; Plate VI, Fig. 46, chrysalis (Accius).
Butterfly.—The male on the upper side is dark blackish-brown, with three small subapical spots, and one small spot below these, near the origin of the third median nervule. The female is exactly like the male, except that it has two spots, the larger one being placed below the small spot corresponding to the one on the fore wing of the male. The wings on the under side are dark fuscous, somewhat clouded with darker brown, the spots of the upper side reappearing on the under side. Expanse, ♂, 1.40 inch; ♁, 1.50 inch.
Early Stages.—Very little has been written upon the early stages.