. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. With 48 plates in color-photography, reproductions of butterflies in the author's collection, and many text illustrations presenting most of the species found in the United States. Butterflies -- North America. Genus Ageronia (2) Pyrrhanaea morrisoni, Edwards, Plate XXIV, Fig. 2, $ (Morrison's Goatweed Butterfly). Butterfly, $.— Much like P. andria, but more brilliantly and lustrously red on the upper side, and marked with paler macular bands like the female. ? .— Differing from the female of P. andria in
. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. With 48 plates in color-photography, reproductions of butterflies in the author's collection, and many text illustrations presenting most of the species found in the United States. Butterflies -- North America. Genus Ageronia (2) Pyrrhanaea morrisoni, Edwards, Plate XXIV, Fig. 2, $ (Morrison's Goatweed Butterfly). Butterfly, $.— Much like P. andria, but more brilliantly and lustrously red on the upper side, and marked with paler macular bands like the female. ? .— Differing from the female of P. andria in the more mac- ular, or spotted, arrangement of the light bands on the wings, as is well shown in the plate. Expanse, inches. Early Stages.— Unknown. This species occurs in Arizona and Mexico. (3) Pyrrhanaea portia,Fabricius, Plate XXIV, Fig. 3, $ (Portia). Butterfly.—Splendid purplish-red on the upper side. On the under side the fore wings are laved with bright yellow on the basal and inner marginal tracts, and the secondaries are dark brown, irrorated with blackish scales arranged in spots and striae. Expanse, inches. Early Stages.—Unknown. Portia occurs in the extreme southern part of Florida and in the Antilles. Genus AGERONIA, Hubner (The Calicoes) Butterfly.—The antennae moderately long, delicate, terminated in a gradually thickened club. The eyes are n^ked; the pal^ are compressed, only slightly porrect, not densely covered with scales. The neuration isalikein both sexes, the costal and the median veins greatly thickened toward the base. The first and second subcostals arise from before the end of the cell; the fourth and fifth sub- costals arise from a common stem emitted from the third subcostal beyond the end of the cell. The cells in both the fore and hind wings are closed. The butterflies are of medium or large size, curiously marked with checkered spots, blue and white, with broad paler shades on the under side of the secondaries. Th
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