. The butterfly book;. Butterflies. Genus Synchloe which, if correct, will force us, according to the law of priority, to substitute the name given by Bates for that given by Edwards. Genus SYNCHLOE, Boisduval (The Patched Butterflies) Butterfly.—Medium-sized or small butterflies, rather gaily colored, although the species found in the United States are not very brilliant. They may be distinguished structurally from the butterflies of the two preceding genera not only by their larger size and the spindle- formed third article of the palpi, which in the genera Eresia and Phyciodes is thin and p
. The butterfly book;. Butterflies. Genus Synchloe which, if correct, will force us, according to the law of priority, to substitute the name given by Bates for that given by Edwards. Genus SYNCHLOE, Boisduval (The Patched Butterflies) Butterfly.—Medium-sized or small butterflies, rather gaily colored, although the species found in the United States are not very brilliant. They may be distinguished structurally from the butterflies of the two preceding genera not only by their larger size and the spindle- formed third article of the palpi, which in the genera Eresia and Phyciodes is thin and pointed like a needle, but also by the fact that the lower discocellular vein of the fore wings is generally quite straight and not bowed or angled as in the before-mentioned genera. Egg.—Similar in appearance to the eggs of the genus Phyciodes: obovoid, truncated and slightly depressed at top, rounded at the the genus Synchloe, en- bottom ; the lower three fifths with shallow ^"^^^ * depressions ; the upper part with about twenty-four light blunt- edged ribs. The eggs are laid in clusters upon the leaves of Helianthus. Caterpillar.—Varying in color, generally black or some shade of red or brown, covered with spines which are arranged as in the genus Melitcea and are thickly beset with diverging bristles. The caterpillar moults four times. Chrysalis.—Shaped as in the genus Melitcea, light in color, blotched with dark-brown or black spots and lines. The genus is well represented in Central and South America. Some of the species are polymorphic, many varieties being pro- duced from a single batch of eggs. The result has been con- siderable confusion in the specific nomenclature. (i) Synchloe janais, Drury, Plate XVIII, Fig. lo, 5 (The Crimson-patch). Butterfly.—Y^oxt wings black above, spotted with white; hind wings black above, marked in the center with a broad band 159. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that m
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