. As nature shows them : moths and butterflies of the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains : with over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life. Lepidoptera; Nature prints. 306 MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. An interesting liabit of bnttei'flies l)el()ni;ing to this genus was witnessed b}' one of m}- biotliers, William Denton, in Coloniljia, South Aniei'ica. One day, while he was out collecting, he noticed several male s[)ecimens of a very handsome s[)ecies fluttering about a l)ush by the roadside. These he took with his net, and was about to move on, wh
. As nature shows them : moths and butterflies of the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains : with over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life. Lepidoptera; Nature prints. 306 MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. An interesting liabit of bnttei'flies l)el()ni;ing to this genus was witnessed b}' one of m}- biotliers, William Denton, in Coloniljia, South Aniei'ica. One day, while he was out collecting, he noticed several male s[)ecimens of a very handsome s[)ecies fluttering about a l)ush by the roadside. These he took with his net, and was about to move on, when other specimens were seen approaching. In a short time he had several moi'e, but still they kept coming to the same bush. Tliis excited his curiosity, and upon carefully exam- ining tlie bush he discovered a number of chrysalides of the female of this s})ecies upon it, the Ijutterflies within being plainly visible and almost lead}^ to l)urst their shells. Tlie males were already assembling to welcome the females on their emerging from their chrysalides. HcUcoxid clKiritonut is our only native species of this genus, l)ut it is a handsome insect, as one may see by refei'ence to tlie plate. This l)utterfly is abundantly found in iNIexico and Central America, and occasionally it may be seen in nundjcrs in southern Florida, where it flies lazily in tlie hot sunshine. Like the dift'erent s[)ecies of AfiraulU^ the larva of this insect feeds on the passion vine. 'J'wo beautiful insects belonging to the genus Eumenes inhal^it the extreme southern poition of our Kiuaeiiia ;uala. Eumenia atahi is a. common inse'-t in southern Florida early in February, where it may sometimes be seen by dozens clustered on the flowering plants. It is usually very abundant near Miami in that state. The wings of tliis insect are black with streaks of metallic green or blue below the upper margin of the upper Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may hav
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