. A treatise on some of the insects injurious to vegetation . Insect pests. the wings are covered with blackish spots, running together more or less, as in the preceding species; tips of the fore wings beneath, and under side of the hind wings, brownish, and glossed with purplish white on the posterior half of the latter, which are variegated with dark brown lines and spots. Expands from If to lT9ff inch. Very closely resembles the Myrina in form and color of the upper surface of the wings, but is easily distinguished from it by the want of the silvery spots beneath. It is found on flowers in
. A treatise on some of the insects injurious to vegetation . Insect pests. the wings are covered with blackish spots, running together more or less, as in the preceding species; tips of the fore wings beneath, and under side of the hind wings, brownish, and glossed with purplish white on the posterior half of the latter, which are variegated with dark brown lines and spots. Expands from If to lT9ff inch. Very closely resembles the Myrina in form and color of the upper surface of the wings, but is easily distinguished from it by the want of the silvery spots beneath. It is found on flowers in the latter part of July. The butterflies of the genus Melitcea agree in most re- spects with those of Argynnis, except that the under side of the hind wings is usually checkered with various colors, but not ornamented with silvery or pearly spots. Their cater- pillars are very different, being covered with blunt tubercles beset with very short stiff bristles, and most of them live on various kinds of plantain. The chrysalids are of the same. 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 Harris, Thaddeus William, 1795-1856; Flint, Charles Louis, 1824-1889. Boston : William White, printer to the state
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