_Butterfly._--Small-sized butterflies, with the upper side of the wings dark in color, marked with bands of shining metallic blue or silvery-green, the under side of the wings generally more or less brilliantly colored, carmine upon the primaries and silvery-white upon the secondaries, with the apex of the primaries marked with black transverse bands and the body of the secondaries traversed by curiously arranged bands of deep black, these bands inclosing about the middle of the wing circular or pear-shaped spots. All of the subcostal nervules in this genus arise beyond the end of the cell. The costal and the median veins are swollen near the base. The cell in both the fore and hind wings is open.
[Illustration FIG. 103.--Neuration of the genus _Callicore_.]
_Early Stages._--Very little is known of these.
This genus numbers about thirty species, almost all of which are found in South America, only one being known to inhabit the United States, being found in the extreme southern portion of Florida, and there only rarely.
(1) =Callicore clymena=, Hübner, Plate XXI, Fig. 5, ♂; Fig. 6, ♂, _under side_ (The Leopard-spot).
_Butterfly._--The wings on the upper side are black, the primaries crossed by an oblique iridescent bluish-green band, and the secondaries marked by a similarly colored marginal band. On the under side the primaries are crimson from the base to the outer third, which is white, margined with black, and crossed by an outer narrow black band and an inner broad black band. The secondaries on this side are white, marked about the middle by two large coalescing black spots, and nearer the costa a large pear-shaped spot, both ringed about with black lines. Beyond these black rings are two black bands conformed to the outline of the inner and outer margins of the wing, and, in addition, a fine black marginal line. The costa is edged with crimson. Expanse, 1.75 inch.
+--------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXI | | | | 1. _Timetes coresia_, Godart, ♂. | | 2. _Timetes coresia_, Godart, ♂, | | _under side_. | | 3. _Timetes petreus_, Cramer, ♂. | | 4. _Timetes chiron_, Fabricius, ♂. | | 5. _Callicore clymena_, Cramer, ♂. | | 6. _Callicore clymena_, Cramer, ♂, | | _under side_. | | 7. _Eunica monima_, Cramer, ♂. | | 8. _Eunica monima_, Cramer, ♀. | | 9. _Hypolimnas misippus_, Linnæus, ♂. | | 10. _Hypolimnas misippus_, Linnæus, ♀. | | | | [Illustration PLATE XXI.] | +--------------------------------------------------------------+