. The butterflies of the eastern United States; for the use of classes in zoology, and private students. ng connected by the white veins, givingthe hind wings a somewhat reticulated appearance. Food-plant not known. North Carolina to Texas. SECTION II. In this division the knob of the antennae is spindle-shaped. The larvae are more or less cylindrical, with thehead usually larger than the second segment. Habitsof larva and pupa mostly similar to those of Section I. 177. Pyrgus Tessellata, Scud. Expanse of wings inches. Male.—Upper surface black, the basal third and hindmargin of fore wings
. The butterflies of the eastern United States; for the use of classes in zoology, and private students. ng connected by the white veins, givingthe hind wings a somewhat reticulated appearance. Food-plant not known. North Carolina to Texas. SECTION II. In this division the knob of the antennae is spindle-shaped. The larvae are more or less cylindrical, with thehead usually larger than the second segment. Habitsof larva and pupa mostly similar to those of Section I. 177. Pyrgus Tessellata, Scud. Expanse of wings inches. Male.—Upper surface black, the basal third and hindmargin of fore wings overlaid with white hairs, as also the inner part of hind wings. TheFia. 86. ^^ outer two thirds of fore wings con-tain about thirty white spots ar-ranged somewhat in four irregu-lar transverse rows; and five moreon the costal edge, as shown in Pyrgus Tessellata, male (nat- Fig. 86. TllC hind wiugS IiaVC ura size. about eighteen spots, arranged in three rows, the spots of the inner row the largest, themiddle ones crescents, the outer ones points. Fringeswhite, with black at the ends of the EASTERN UNITED STATES. 353 Under side of fore wings yellowisli white along thecosta and the outer margin, the spots of the uppersurface repeated, but more or less blended, the spacebetween the spots brownish black. Hind wings white,faintly yellowish; a spot near the base, two irregulartransverse bands, and a marginal row of lunules arebrownish, these corresponding to the spaces betweenthe rows of white above. Female.—Darker, owing to the spots being smaller,the marginal row of points subobsolete. Under sidealso darker. Pennsylvania to the Gulf, Atlantic to the Pacific. 178. Pyrgus Centaure^, Ramb. Expanse of wings inches. Upper surface black, tinged with brown, with whitescales over basal half. A bar of white in end of cell offore wings, a less distinct spot of same below the middleof cell, and a subterminal row of white spots. Thereare first three spots in the subcostal int
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