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Checkered Skipper
Butterfly.--The upper side is correctly delineated in the plate. The under side of the fore wings is much paler than the upper side, but with all the spots and markings of that side reproduced. The hind wings are creamy-white, crossed by median, postmedian, and marginal irregular bands of ochreous, somewhat annular spots. There is a triangular black spot at the anal angle of the secondaries. Expanse, 1.15 inch.
Early Stage.--We know little of these. The caterpillar probably feeds on malvaceous plants, as do most of the species of the genus.
The insect ranges from the Middle States to Arizona, and westward to the Rocky Mountains.