. The butterflies of the eastern United States. For the use of classes in zoology and private students. Butterflies. 384 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE A of an inch in diameter. Color dull translucent white. Surface faintly aciculate, sparsely armed dorsally with minute, evenly-distributed, short, rufous bristles, spring- ing from the general surface, and not very noticeable with the naked eye; covered more or less copiously with a white, glistening, powdery secretion of a waxy nature. Cylindrical; the abdominal joints with eight annulate Fig. as Megathymus Yucca;: a,egg, side-view, enlarged; 6,e
. The butterflies of the eastern United States. For the use of classes in zoology and private students. Butterflies. 384 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE A of an inch in diameter. Color dull translucent white. Surface faintly aciculate, sparsely armed dorsally with minute, evenly-distributed, short, rufous bristles, spring- ing from the general surface, and not very noticeable with the naked eye; covered more or less copiously with a white, glistening, powdery secretion of a waxy nature. Cylindrical; the abdominal joints with eight annulate Fig. as Megathymus Yucca;: a,egg, side-view, enlarged; 6,egg from which the larva lias hatched ; bb, bbb, unhatched eggs, natural size; c, newly-hatched larva, enlarged ; cc, full-grown larva, natural size; d, under side of head of same, enlarged to show the trophi. or transverse wrinkles to each joint,—the first three oc- cupying the anterior half, the third more prominent and widening laterally, and the other five on the posterior half of the joint, all best defined dorsally. The thoracic joints somewhat larger than the rest, more deeply and irregularly wrinkled ; the substigmatal region with lon- gitudinal folds. Head black, perpendicular, and aspe- rous or deeply shagreened; epistoma and labrum brown, small, and usually with a transverse median ridge, the. 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 French, G. H. (George Hazen), 1841-1935. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company
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