. The butterflies of the eastern United States; for the use of classes in zoology, and private students. adens on the process of head;on ventral side below head two red dots near the middleline; a series of white dots along the margins of thewing-cases; below the ridge, on last segments, are tracesof blue spots. The natural food-plant seems to be red bay, or FerseaCarolinensisy though they readily eat sassafras. Gulf States, Florida to Virginia. 6. Papilio Turnus, Linn. Expanse of wings from to inches. Upper surface of wings clear pale yellow, costa andouter border of fore wings, and o
. The butterflies of the eastern United States; for the use of classes in zoology, and private students. adens on the process of head;on ventral side below head two red dots near the middleline; a series of white dots along the margins of thewing-cases; below the ridge, on last segments, are tracesof blue spots. The natural food-plant seems to be red bay, or FerseaCarolinensisy though they readily eat sassafras. Gulf States, Florida to Virginia. 6. Papilio Turnus, Linn. Expanse of wings from to inches. Upper surface of wings clear pale yellow, costa andouter border of fore wings, and outer and posterior bor-der of hind wings, black; the outer portion of the blackalong the costa suffused with yellow; the outer border K ^ 9 98 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE having a row of eight yellow spots on the fore wings,and five lunules on the hind wings, the first more or lessorange; the anal ocellus orange, with yellow on the pos-terior part, not pupilled. The fore wings have fourblack bands or stripes; the first, about one-fourth thedistance from the base to the outer margin, is continued Fig. Papllio ToruQB (nataral size). two-thirds across the hind wings, where it turns abruptlyto meet a black edging that extends along the base ofthe fore wings and along the inner margin of the hindwings to this point. The second extends from thecosta to the median vein, or sometimes beyond; the thirdextends from the costa across the end of the discal cell;the fourth, from the costa to the fifth subcostal venule orbeyond. The broad black terminal border of the hind EASTERN UNITED STATES. 99 wings contains a series of more or less prominent inter-venular blue clouds, sometimes small and not reaching thecostal end of the border, at other times suffusing most ofthe black, and it may be some of the yellow. Tail .5 ofan inch long, black, edged on the inside with yellow. Under side similar to the upper, but the black termi-nal borders suffused with yellow, and the lunules washedwith orange,
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