. The butterflies of the eastern United States; for the use of classes in zoology, and private students. Heliconia Charitonia (natural size). dots, the outer end bending round so as to form a sub-marginal row from about the middle of the outer marginto the apex. There are a few marginal dots at the analangle, and usually two or three red dots at the base. Under side dull black, with the yellow lines and dotsrepeated, though paler. The costa of the fore wingswith red at the base, three red dots on the base of thehind wings, and two below the first band. The egg is described by Mr. Edwards as cy
. The butterflies of the eastern United States; for the use of classes in zoology, and private students. Heliconia Charitonia (natural size). dots, the outer end bending round so as to form a sub-marginal row from about the middle of the outer marginto the apex. There are a few marginal dots at the analangle, and usually two or three red dots at the base. Under side dull black, with the yellow lines and dotsrepeated, though paler. The costa of the fore wingswith red at the base, three red dots on the base of thehind wings, and two below the first band. The egg is described by Mr. Edwards as cylindrical,one-half higher than broad, flat at base, tapering veryslightly from base to about three-fourtlis the length,then conoidal, the top flattened and a little by fourteen longitudinal ridges crossed by lowhorizontal ridges. Color yellow. The young larvae are cylindrical, tapering slightlyfrom about the seventh segment; marked by four prin- PLATE A group of Heliconias. Heliconius Charitonia, L., Phyllis, Fab., Eucrate, Hub., Klugii, Hub., MexicOo EASTERN UNITED STATES. 143 cipal rows of flattened tubercles and two rows of smallerones. Color pale reddish brown. After the first moult the color is light brown, chang-ing as the stage proceeds to greenish white mottled withbrown; armed with six rows of spines, which are short,slender, tapering, and black, with a few short blackbristles on the sides. The truncated head is a littledepressed in the middle, and each vertex armed with ashort tapering black process thinly beset with bristles. There are but few changes during the next inter-vals, except in size, and in the color gradually becoming whiter. The mature larva is from to inches long,cylindrical, armed as after the first moult. Color dead-white, with no gloss, smooth, no hairs, and spotted withblack or brown. The chrysalis is very irregular in shape, two leaf-likeapp
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