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The Little Glass-Wing (Euphyes verna Eu'phy-es ver'na)

Euphyes verna (Eu'phy-es ver'na) PLATE XLI, Fig. 13, 14, 15 The upper surface of both fore and hind wings is a dark rich brown; the fore wings with a transverse row of white or translucent spots beyond the middle and a small one near the outer end of cell R+M; the hind wings without spots or with merely traces of them; the brand of the male is slender, inconspicuous, and blackish. On the lower surface the spots of the fore wings are repeated, and there may be a faint row of spots beyond the middle of the hind wings.

See table, page 266, for distinctions between this species and the female of the cross-line skipper, which it closely resembles. Expanse of wings one and one-eighth to one and one-fourth inches.

The species is distributed from New York westward to Kansas and southward along the Alleghany Mountains. The popular name was probably suggested by the resemblance in appearance to some of the larger skippers with translucent spots on the wings.