. The butterfly book : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies. Fossil Insects cell; the fourth and fifth spring from a common stem which is emitted from the third beyond the end of the cell, as the cut shows. Early Stages.—We know nothing of these. This genus, in which are reckoned five species, all found in the tropics of the New World, is represented by but a single species in our fauna, which oc- curs in southwestern Texas and in Flor- ida. It is very common in the West Indies and Central America. (i) Victorina steneles, Linnaeus, Plate XXIV, Fig. 6,
. The butterfly book : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies. Fossil Insects cell; the fourth and fifth spring from a common stem which is emitted from the third beyond the end of the cell, as the cut shows. Early Stages.—We know nothing of these. This genus, in which are reckoned five species, all found in the tropics of the New World, is represented by but a single species in our fauna, which oc- curs in southwestern Texas and in Flor- ida. It is very common in the West Indies and Central America. (i) Victorina steneles, Linnaeus, Plate XXIV, Fig. 6, 6 (The Pearly Mal- achite). This splendid insect is occasionally found in southern Florida and the extreme southern part of Texas. It is common throughout tropical America. Nothing has ever been written upon its early ^ ,. ... ^ ' Fig. 113.—Neuration of the Stages. genus Victorina. FOSSIL INSECTS Investigations within comparatively recent times have led to the discovery of a host of fossil insects. A few localities in Europe and in North America are rich in such remains, and the number of species that have been described amounts to several thousands. Strangely enough, some of these fossil insects are very closely allied in form to species that are living at the present time, showing the extreme antiquity of many of our genera. One of the comparatively recent discoveries has been the fossil remains of a butterfly which Dr. Scudder, who has described it, declares to be very near to the African Libythea labdaca, which differs in certain minor anatomical respects from the American Libytheas which are figured in this work; and Dr. Scudder has therefore pro- posed a new generic name, Dichora, meaning " an inhabitant of two lands," which he applies to the African species because related to the extinct American butterfly. The strange dis- coveries, which have been made by palaeontologists as to the huge character of many of the mammals, birds, and reptiles 195. Please no
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