. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies -- North America. Fig. 82—Alypia disparata, $ . (After Hampson.) The structural features of this species are shown in the accompanying cut, for the use of which we are indebted to the kind- ness of Sir George F. Hampson. The insect occurs in southern Texas, Arizona, and Mexico. The writer has a large series collected for him in the neighborhood of Jalapa, where it is apparently more common than farther north. (3) Alypia octomaculata Fabricius, Plate XVII, Figs. 16, 20, $, Fig. 21, ?. (The Eigh
. The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. Butterflies -- North America. Fig. 82—Alypia disparata, $ . (After Hampson.) The structural features of this species are shown in the accompanying cut, for the use of which we are indebted to the kind- ness of Sir George F. Hampson. The insect occurs in southern Texas, Arizona, and Mexico. The writer has a large series collected for him in the neighborhood of Jalapa, where it is apparently more common than farther north. (3) Alypia octomaculata Fabricius, Plate XVII, Figs. 16, 20, $, Fig. 21, ?. (The Eight-spotted Forester.) Syn. bimaculata Gmelin; qiiadriguttalis Hiibner; matuia Henry Edwards. This very common insect, which sometimes proves a veritable plague by the depredations which it commits upon the foliage of the Ampelopsis, which is extensively grown in our cities as a decorative vine, is found everywhere in the northern Atlantic States, and ranges westward beyond the Mississippi. One good thing which can be set down to the English sparrow is the work, which he has been observed by the writer to do in devouring the larvae of this moth from the vines with which his home is covered. (4) Alypia wittfeldi Henry Edwards, Plate XVll, Fig. 18, 6 , Fig. 19, ? . (Wittfeld's Forester.) Sir George F. Hampson sinks this species as a synonym of A. octomaculata, but the writer cannot agree with him in this. The form of the spots on the primaries, the white at the. Fig. 83.—Alypia octomaculata. a. larva; b. enlarged somite, showing markings; c. moth. (After Riley.) M4. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Holland, W. J. (William Jacob), 1848-1932. Garden City, N. Y. , Doubleday, Page & Co.
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