Upper side as in our figure, under side marked with white lines edged with brown. Orange spots of upper side reappear below, but at anal angle are transformed into red eye-spots pupilled with black and margined with metallic green. Expanse 1.50 inch.
Ranges from Colorado to eastern Arizona.
PL. LXXXI
(4) Thecla favonius Smith & Abbot, [Plate LXXXI], Fig. 1, ♂ (The Southern Hair-streak).
On the under side the wings are marked much as in T. m-album, but in the region of the median nervules is a rather broad transverse carmine streak inwardly edged with dark lines. Expanse 1.00-1.15 inch.
Found in the Gulf States and as far north as South Carolina.
(5) Thecla wittfeldi Edwards, [Plate LXXXI], Fig. 2, ♀, Type (Wittfeld’s Hair-streak).
On the lower side both wings are crossed beyond the middle by two parallel pale lines bordered with darker tints, and at the end of the cells have each a short whitish bar. The anal angle is adorned with blue scales, before which is a red eye-spot of large size, externally marked with black. Expanse 1.25-1.35 inch.
Found in the region of Indian River, Florida.