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Butterfly.--No description of the upper side is needed, the figures in the plate being sufficient to enable identification. On the under side the primaries are fulvous on the costa at the base. The remainder of the primaries and the secondaries are dark ferruginous, with the light spots of the upper side all repeated greatly enlarged, pale, and standing out boldly upon the dark ground-color. The hind wings are pale brown on the inner margin. Expanse, male, 1.10 inch; female, 1.25 inch.
Early Stages.--These have been elaborately described by Scudder. The caterpillar feeds on grasses, making a tubular nest for itself among the leaves.
The insect ranges through southern Canada and New England to Pennsylvania, and westward to Wisconsin.