. The butterflies of the eastern United States. For the use of classes in zoology and private students. Butterflies -- United States Identification. EASTERN UNITED STATES. 197 fulvous and white repeated, blue along the costa, in the cell, and beyond the fulvous band. The hind wings are marbled with brown, olive, olive-brown, gray, and pale violet, a series of five partially distinct submarginal ocelli imperfectly pupilled. The eggs are green, barrel-shaped, with nine vertical ribs which are highest at the top, the ribs grooved on each side perpendicularly to the surface of the egg. The young l
. The butterflies of the eastern United States. For the use of classes in zoology and private students. Butterflies -- United States Identification. EASTERN UNITED STATES. 197 fulvous and white repeated, blue along the costa, in the cell, and beyond the fulvous band. The hind wings are marbled with brown, olive, olive-brown, gray, and pale violet, a series of five partially distinct submarginal ocelli imperfectly pupilled. The eggs are green, barrel-shaped, with nine vertical ribs which are highest at the top, the ribs grooved on each side perpendicularly to the surface of the egg. The young larva is greenish brown, semi- translucent, and furnished with ten rows of P Atalaritn black, curved hairs. Joints 2 and 13 have egg) x 20.' black dorsal patches. After the first moult it is wholly black-brown, armed •/ Avith seven rows of short, slender, branching black spines. Head bilobed, the vertices rounded. After the third moult the body is more black, each segment creased, on the creases many minute whitish tubercles; a maculae greenish-yellow stigniatal band ; head brown. In reach- ing maturity it passes four moults. The mature larva is inches long, cylindrical, en- larged in the middle, and of a velvet-black color thickly sprinkled with fine yellow points, with a stigmatal line of greenish-yellow patches. It has seven rows of moder- ately long, slender, branching spines, which are usually black; but in some specimens they are pale yellow- white, more or less reddish at base. Head rounded, bilobed, the vertices rounded, thickly covered with black, simple spines. The chrvsalis is from .85 to .95 of an inch long;, •/ cylindrical, the abdomen stout, the dorsal tubercles gilded, the lateral in two rows and black. Color vari- 17*. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original French, G. H. (Geor
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