. The butterfly book [microform] : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies; Papillons. Genua Lemoniu Butterfly.—The ground-color of the upper side is bright red, clouded with fuscous on the base of the hind wings and bor- cered with the same color. There is a small precostal white spot on the primaries near the apex. The wings are profusely marked with small black spots arranged in transverse series and bands. The fringes are checkered with white. On the under side the wings are pale reddish, mottled with buff on the secon- daries. The black spots and ma
. The butterfly book [microform] : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies; Papillons. Genua Lemoniu Butterfly.—The ground-color of the upper side is bright red, clouded with fuscous on the base of the hind wings and bor- cered with the same color. There is a small precostal white spot on the primaries near the apex. The wings are profusely marked with small black spots arranged in transverse series and bands. The fringes are checkered with white. On the under side the wings are pale reddish, mottled with buff on the secon- daries. The black spots and markings of the upper side reappear on the under side and stand out boldly on the lighter ground- color. Expanse, inch. Early Stages.—These are beautifully d''':neated in "The But- terflies of North America," vol. ii. The rg is pale green, turban- shaped, covered with hexagonal reti. .ations. The caterpillar is rather stout and short, the first segment projecting over the head. The body is somewhat flattened and tapering behind, covered with tufts of hairs projecting outward and downward on all sides, only the two rows of short tufts on the back sending their hairs upward. The color is mouse-gray, striped longitudinally on the back with yellowish-white, the tufts more or less ringed about at their base with circles of the same color. The chrysalis is black- ish-brown, attached at he anal end, held in place by a girdle, but not closely appressod to the surface on which pupation has taken place, and thickly studded with small projecting hairs. The larva lives on the wild plum. hiais occurs from Colorado to Mexico east of the Rocky Mountains. (6) Lemonias paltneri, Edwards, Plate XXVIII, Fig. 11, $ (Palmer's Metal-mark). Butterfly.—Smaller than any of the preceding species. The ground-color of the wings is mouse-gray, spotted with white; on the under side the wings are whitish-gray, laved with pale red at the base of the fore wings. The white spots of the u
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