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Delaware Skipper

Atrytone delaware

Plate XLVI — Delaware Skipper is Fig. 24
Plate XLVI — Delaware Skipper is Fig. 24

Butterfly.--No description of the upper side of the wings is necessary. On the under side the wings are bright orange-red, clouded with black at the base and on the outer angle of the fore wings. Expanse, male, 1.25-1.35 inch; female, 1.35-1.50 inch.

Early Stages.--Very little is known of these.

The butterfly is found from southern New England and northern New York as far south as Florida and Texas, ranging west to the Yellowstone and southern Colorado.