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Satyr

Grapta satyrus

Plate XIX — Satyr is Fig. 14
Plate XIX — Satyr is Fig. 14
Plate XX — Satyr is Fig. 1
Plate XX — Satyr is Fig. 1

Butterfly.-The species is so accurately depicted in the plates that a description is hardly necessary. The form marsyas is smaller, brighter, and with the dark spots on the upper side of the hind wings reduced in size. Expanse, 1.75-2.00 inches.

The food-plant of the caterpillar is the nettle. It occurs occasionally in Ontario, and thence ranges west, being not uncommon from Colorado to California and Oregon.