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Smintheus
Butterfly.--This very beautiful insect is greatly subject to variation, and the plate shows a few of the more striking forms, of which the dark female, named hermodur by the late Henry Edwards, is one of the most beautiful. Expanse, male, 2.00-2.50 inches; female, 2.25-3.00 inches.
Smintheus is found at proper elevations upon the mountains from Colorado to California, and from New Mexico to Montana. The life-history is most exquisitely delineated by Edwards in "The Butterflies of North America," vol. iii.
The caterpillar feeds on Sedum and Saxifraga.