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Short-tailed Arizona Skipper
Butterfly.--The upper side is accurately depicted in the plate. On the under side the wings are hoary. The spots of the upper side reappear, the lower spots of the primaries being partially lost in the broad honey-yellow tint which covers the inner margin of that wing. The secondaries are crossed by obscure dark-brown basal, median, and postmedian bands, portions of which are annular, or composed of ring-like spots. The anal angle is clouded with dark brown. Expanse, 1.50-1.60 inch.
Early Stages.-Unknown.
The species has been taken in considerable numbers in Arizona, and ranges thence southward into Mexico.