. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies -- North America. Genus Hypolimnas. rows on either side of the shorter spines. It feeds on various species of maivaceous plants and also on the common portulaca. C/jn'Sci/i's.—The chrysalis is thick, with the head obtusely pointed; the abdominal segments adorned with a double row of tubercles. The thorax is convex. This genus, which includes a large number of species, reaches its fullest development in the tropics of the Old World, and includes some of the most beautiful, as well as the most s
. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies -- North America. Genus Hypolimnas. rows on either side of the shorter spines. It feeds on various species of maivaceous plants and also on the common portulaca. C/jn'Sci/i's.—The chrysalis is thick, with the head obtusely pointed; the abdominal segments adorned with a double row of tubercles. The thorax is convex. This genus, which includes a large number of species, reaches its fullest development in the tropics of the Old World, and includes some of the most beautiful, as well as the most singular, forms, which mimic the protected spe- cies of the Euplcein^e, or milkweed but- terflies, of the Indo-Malayan and Ethi- opian regions. In some way one of the most widely spread of these species, which is found throughout the tropics of Asia and Africa, has obtained lodg- ment upon the soil of the New World, and is occasionally found in Florida, where it is by no means common. It may be that it was introduced from Africa in the time of the slave-trade, having been accidentally brought over by ship. That this is not impossible is shown by the fact that the writer has, on several occasions, obtained in the city of Pittsburgh specimens of rare and beautiful tropica! insects which emerged from chrysa- lids that were found attached to bunches of bananas brought from Honduras. (i) Hypolimnas misippus, Linnaeus, Plate XXI, Fig. 9, 6 ; Fig. 10, ? (The Mimic). Butterjiy, 6 .—On the upper side the wings are velvety-black, with two conspicuous white spots on the fore wing, and a larger one on the middle of the hind wing, the margins of these spots reflecting iridescent purple. On the under side the wings are white, intricately marked with black lines, and black and red- dish-ochraceous spots and shades. ?.—The female mimics two or three forms of an Oriental milkweed butterfly, the pattern of the upper side of the wings conforming to that of the variety of the protected specie
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