. The butterfly book [microform] : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies; Papillons. Genus Junonia (i) Junonia coenia, HObner, Plate XX, Fig. 7, ? ; Plate III, Figs. 29, 30, larva; Plate IV, Figs. 56, 57, 65-67, chrysalis (The Buckeye). Butterfly.âThe figure in the plate is far better than any verbal description. On the under side the eye-like spots of the upper side are reproduced, but are much smaller, especially on the hind wings. There is much variety in the ground-color of the wings on the under side. Some specimens are reddish-gray, and some are
. The butterfly book [microform] : a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies; Papillons. Genus Junonia (i) Junonia coenia, HObner, Plate XX, Fig. 7, ? ; Plate III, Figs. 29, 30, larva; Plate IV, Figs. 56, 57, 65-67, chrysalis (The Buckeye). Butterfly.âThe figure in the plate is far better than any verbal description. On the under side the eye-like spots of the upper side are reproduced, but are much smaller, especially on the hind wings. There is much variety in the ground-color of the wings on the under side. Some specimens are reddish-gray, and some are quite heavily and solidly pinkish-red on the secondaries. Expanse, inches. Egg.âThe egg is dark green. Caterpillar.âThe caterpillar is dark in color, longitudinally striped, and adorned with branching spines, two of which are on the head and point forward. Chrysalis.âThe chrysalis is generally pale wood-brown, strongly arched on the dorsal and concave on the ventral side. It always hangs at less than a right angle to the surface from which it depends. This is a very common butterfly in the Southern States, ranging northward as far as ('â¢Jew England, westward to the Pacific, and southward to Colombia. The caterpillar feeds on various species of plantain (Flantago), also Gerardia and Antir- rhinum. When I was a lad in western Njrth Carolina these insects fairly swarmed one summer; thousands of the caterpil- lars could be found in worn-out fields, feeding on the narrow- leaved plantain, and every fence-rail had one or more of their chrysalids hanging from the under side. I have never seen such multitudes of this species since then. The butterflies are quite pugnacious, and will fight with other passing butterflies, dashing forth upon them, and chasing them away. (2) Junonia lavinia, Cramer, Plate XX, Fig. 8, $ (Lavinia). Butterfly.âThis species may be distinguished by the more rounded apex and the more deeply excavated outer margin of the fore wings, and also by
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