. The butterflies of the eastern United States; for the use of classes in zoology, and private students. wing that decision,the two names are used in that way in Mr. EdwardssNew Catalogue, and the nomenclature here is based onthat arrangement. The food-plant is willow. Florida, Georgia. 76. Apatura Celtis, Bd.—Lee. Expanse of wings from to inches. Upper surface russety gray or fawn color, inclined toolivaceous, shaded with black-brown. The outer halfof the fore wings, except the hind margin, and two spotsand a bar in the cell, dark brown, with an irregular row 216 THE BUTTERFLIES OF T
. The butterflies of the eastern United States; for the use of classes in zoology, and private students. wing that decision,the two names are used in that way in Mr. EdwardssNew Catalogue, and the nomenclature here is based onthat arrangement. The food-plant is willow. Florida, Georgia. 76. Apatura Celtis, Bd.—Lee. Expanse of wings from to inches. Upper surface russety gray or fawn color, inclined toolivaceous, shaded with black-brown. The outer halfof the fore wings, except the hind margin, and two spotsand a bar in the cell, dark brown, with an irregular row 216 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE of seven pale yellow spots beyond the cell. There arethree submarginal black ocelli, the lower not pupilled,the middle pupilled, with tlie lower of three white spots;a little tawny near the posterior part of the wings more uniformly shaded with brown, withtwo marginal rows of fawn lunules; and beyond themiddle six round eye-like spots, not pupilled, in a palefield. In certain lights the upper surface has a littleiridescence. Under side light gray, less brown than above, the Fig. Apatura Celtis: a, ogg; b, larva, dorsal view ; c, d, pupa; e, imago, roa!e, tVdotted lino showing form of female. middle of the fore wings with a slight yellow fore wings have two ocelli, the hind wings seven,all annulate with pale yellow, and all but one on eachwing with a pupil, the pupil of those on the hind wingspale blue. The mature larvae, as described by Professor Riley, arerather more than an inch long, of a pea-green color, witha series of yellow spots along the middle of the back,and three yellow lines on each side, the intermediate oneundulating, often obsolete on the anterior part of eachjoint, and containing a little lead-colored dimple. The EASTERN UNITED STATES. 217 body is more or less thickly granulated with pale papillae;swells in the middle, from which it tapers both ways, theanal extremity ending in two horns. The back and sidesare flattened, the latt
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