The small salmon Arab

Description:

Male upperside has a salmon-pink ground colour. The costa on the forewing is black and thickly overlaid with greyish or pinkish scales ; a black spot at apex of cell, which may be large and quadrate or smaller and lunate ; termen broadly black, with an enclosed double transverse series of spots of the ground-colour the inner series consists of a large spot in interspace 1, two very small spots in interspaces 2 and 3, one in.each, and four larger anterior spots placed in a curve ; the spots in the outer series are variable in number, but generally there is one in each interspace, these are more or less linear in shape. Hind wing: a band on costal margin extended to just within the upper margin of the cell, covered with dense black specialized scales ; this black band joined onto a broad similarly- coloured terminal band of ordinary scales, that becomes more or less diffuse and powdery posteriorly, and encloses a double series of small spots of the ground-colour the inner series often obsolescent, in some specimens entirely absent; dorsum heavily irrorated with fuscous scales, the irroration extended onto the disc, which has therefore generally a greyish appearance.

Habitat:

prairie close to a pond.