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Little Glass-wing

Euphyes verna

Plate XLVI — Little Glass-wing is Fig. 32
Plate XLVI — Little Glass-wing is Fig. 32
Little Glass-wing (detail)
Little Glass-wing (detail)

Butterfly.--The upper side of the male is correctly delineated in the plate. On the under side the wings are paler, inclining to purplish-red. The spots of the upper side are repeated, but in addition about the middle of the hind wings there is a semicircle of pale spots. Expanse, male, 1.15 inch; female, 1.35 inch.

Early Stages.--We do not know much of these; what little we do know may be found recorded in the pages of "The Butterflies of New England." The caterpillar feeds on grasses.

It ranges from southern New England to Virginia, westward to Kansas, and northward to the province of Alberta. It is quite common in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.