. The Bermuda islands. An account of their scenery, climate, productions, physiography, natural history and geology, with sketches of their discovery and early history, and the changes in their flora and fauna due to man. Natural history. 354 A. E. Yerrill—Tlie Bermuda Islands. 766 line. Expanse, inches. It is native of the southern United States, especially in the southwest. Florida; Panama; and Cuba,^ (Yale Mus.). Pearly-eye Butterfly. {Enodia portlandia (Fabr.) Hubn.; Scudder =zDehis portlandia Holland, p. 199, pi. xviii, f. 20, iii, fig. 16, \2^x\2,^=.IIipparchia andromache Hubn.
. The Bermuda islands. An account of their scenery, climate, productions, physiography, natural history and geology, with sketches of their discovery and early history, and the changes in their flora and fauna due to man. Natural history. 354 A. E. Yerrill—Tlie Bermuda Islands. 766 line. Expanse, inches. It is native of the southern United States, especially in the southwest. Florida; Panama; and Cuba,^ (Yale Mus.). Pearly-eye Butterfly. {Enodia portlandia (Fabr.) Hubn.; Scudder =zDehis portlandia Holland, p. 199, pi. xviii, f. 20, iii, fig. 16, \2^x\2,^=.IIipparchia andromache Hubn., Say, etc., and in Jones.) Figures 126, 127. Jones records a specimen taken in 1848 by Canon Tristram. I do not know of any record of its recent capture, but that is of no great importance as evidence, for the Bermudian insects have been little studied in summer. It is native of the middle and southern United States, 126 127. Figure 126.—Pearly-eye {Enodia portlandia) ; under side. Figure 127.—The same; upper side ; about natural size ; phot, by A. H. V. This delicate yellowish-brown butterfly has 4 to 6 oval, ocellated spots of blackish, bordered with orange or pale yellow, near the mar- gin of each wing ; on the under side the spots mostly have a small white center. Expanse of wings two inches. The larva feeds on grasses ; it is green with two red processes on the head. Sweet-potato Sphinx; Musk; Morning-glory Sphinx; Rose-handed Sphinx. {Phlegothontms cingidatus"^ = Protoparce cingidata= Macrosila cingulata.) Plate XCVII ; Figures 1, 2. The only common large sphinx. Its very large larva feeds on the leaves of the sweet-potato and other species of Ipomoea, and on wild jasmine. Geddes saj^s that it feeds also on Asimina triloba. * Mr. H. G. Dyar considers this a variety of the European species, convolvuli (L.), and writes the name Phlegothontius convolvuli, var. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been dig
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